The West End Gazette

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One Tailor’s Encounter with the Trench Coat (West End Gazette, 1915)

An excerpt from a British tailoring journal which explains what the garment is and is not. The illustrations show a long forgotten pattern with billows pockets and excessively long cuffs, which were intended to be gathered by wrist straps. You will also note that the trench coat is bereft of D rings and gas flaps and other fantasy elements of military-tailoring.

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The British 1912 Officer Jacket (West End Gazette, 1915)

The January, 1915, issue of THE WEST END GAZETTE devoted three pages of tailoring instructions for British officer’s Khaki Service Jacket. The uniform was first issued in 1912:

The latest development in connection with military tailoring is the introduction of a new style of Service Dress for field wear. Its principal distinction from the styles that has superseded is the abolition of the time-honored stand collar in favor of the open step collar style as generally adopted for mufti garments.

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