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Sign in to savethumb|Man wearing a coat, painting by Julian Fałat, 1900|alt=Watercolor painting of a dark-bearded white man in glasses, a hat, and a long, thick, pale-colored coat with a fur collar. The man has his hands in his pockets, and the coat is open, showing indiscriminate clothing of a dark color beneath. A coat is typically an outer garment for the upper body, worn by any gender for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and are open down the front, and closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners (AKA velcro), toggles, a belt, or a combination of some of these. Other
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A coat is an outer garment worn over other clothing on the upper body, typically featuring long sleeves and a front opening that closes with buttons, zippers, or other fasteners. Coats serve the practical purpose of providing warmth while also functioning as a fashion statement for people of any gender.
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11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Coats, jackets and overcoats
- Types
- Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Men's
- Women's
- Modern
- See also
- Bibliography
- References
thumb|Man wearing a coat, painting by Julian Fałat, 1900|alt=Watercolor painting of a dark-bearded white man in glasses, a hat, and a long, thick, pale-colored coat with a fur collar. The man has his hands in his pockets, and the coat is open, showing indiscriminate clothing of a dark color beneath. A coat is typically an outer garment for the upper body, worn by any gender for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and are open down the front, and closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-and-loop fasteners (AKA velcro), toggles, a belt, or a combination of some of these. Other possible features include collars, shoulder straps, and hoods.
== Etymology == Coat is one of the earliest clothing category words in English, attested as far back as the early Middle Ages. (See also Clothing terminology.) The Oxford English Dictionary traces coat in its modern meaning to , when it was written cote or cotte. The word coat stems from Old French and then Latin cottus. It originates from the Proto-Indo-European word for woolen clothes.