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The coat that survived the Navy, the storm, and every fashion era since.
means A short, double-breasted wool overcoat with broad lapels and big buttons, originally worn by sailors and now a cold-weather classic.
from The name most likely comes from the Dutch 'pijjekker' or 'pijjakker' — 'pij' being a coarse, heavy wool cloth and 'jakker' a jacket — borrowed into English where 'pij' got reshaped into the familiar 'pea.' The 'pea' has nothing to do with the vegetable, despite the tidy mental image. There's also a competing naval folk tale that 'pea' stands for 'pilot,' as in a 'P-jacket' worn by pilots and seamen, but the Dutch wool word is the better-supported root.
- naval roots
- Worn by European and American sailors since the 1700s
- name origin
- From Dutch pij, a coarse wool fabric
- double-breasted
- Overlap blocks wind from either tacking direction
- anchor buttons
- Original brass buttons stamped with fouled anchors
- short by design
- Cut high so it never tangled in ship rigging
us navy peacoat — standard issue wool coat adopted by u.s. navy in 1901, still worn by officers and sailors
duffle coat — british alternative issued to royal navy and army since 1940s, with toggle buttons instead of buttons