A very warm Coat: a fairytale

France, 17th century: the first tailcoats appear in the French courts, worn mainly by the nobles and the upper middle class. At this stage, the coat is an embroidered overcoat, with a long and tapered shape, which is part of the three-piece men’s suit: it can be considered as the ancestor of the garment we know today. This piece of garments has the next stage of its evolution in England, where the well-known riding-coat was born, a distinctive sign of gentlemen, a coat without decorations, which spread throughout Europe with the name of Redingote. Over time, different models followed one another, from the Reglan coat in the nineteenth century, to the incredible transformations that the coat has undergone since the early 1900s. During the thirties, the most fashionable models had very important shoulders, while in the forties it becomes about squared lines, until the coat becomes a true fashion and style icon, inspired by Parisian Haute Couture and worn by Hollywood stars.