How many coats do you have?

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I never seem to have the right coat- for instance I have 2 raincoats which are fashionable but not waterproof.
My showerproof coat is a huge down filled affair, which is too hot for most of the year.
I have a nice smart wool coat, but often feel overdressed in it.
Tell me about your coats, as I need to be ruthless about buying a new one.

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That doesn't include jackets.

Wow.
But do you still open your coat wardrobe (I'm assuming they have their own special place!) and say "I have nothing appropriate!"

I have 4 but am lusting for another.

1 red wool affair, love it, very warm, but getting slightly too big.

1 regatta waterproof for walking to school and dog walking in inclement weathers.

1 fashion mac (def not waterproof as I found out on a day trip :( )

1 denim swing coat, I love the shape and the colour, dp thinks it makes me look even fatter than I am.

I have a couple of shawls, and several longline long sleeved cardigans but no coats.

a black one and a cream one.

Nope. If you include jackets, I always have something appropriate. We have 6 hooks in the kitchen and 3 hooks on the back of the bedroom door. The coats are evenly distributed between them all. Jackets are in the wardrobe.

I have...

A wax jacket

A sort of ski coat (thick, padded for v bad weather)

A showerproof lighter coat

Two black coats (one calf length, one floor length), both wool but I customised them both with patchwork/embroidery

A purple velvet tailored coat

A dark green velvet tailored coat

A patchwork coat that I made

A brown duffle

A cord blue double breasted coat

A blue pinstripe coat

A patchwork/floral quilted coat

A budgie jacket

A long grey, thick tailored wool coat

A dark green hooded cotton coat with multicoloured piping

A really beautiful cream coat with pink and black details. It's really soft, a bit like suede but it isn't

A multi-coloured embroidered coat that Joseph would be ashamed of

I think I have more in the loft though...

SOH - that is one impressive coat collection. It could almost be a hobby - like some people collect interesting stones.

I have:
A hideous red fleece used for gardening.
Smart black wool thing for smart places.
Spotty Boden number that is several years old and screams "Boden" too loudly. Looks quite shabby now.
Raincoat that DS3 tells me looks like I'm about to go exploring.
The obligatory pale blue cagoule.

I suspect if I listed my jackets, I'd be hounded off here.

I collect coats, hats (I have one for every week of the year and then some), books on pillboxes and snowglobes (they only come out at Christmas).

I think I'm diverse. DH thinks I'm weird.

I also have 11 pairs of Dr Marten's and 8 pairs of slippers (including the excellent Freudian slippers I am wearing at the moment). And, er 40 pairs of sock.

I know what I like. And what I like is to be warm.

Er I have:

A hot pink one, green one, red one, waterproof one and dark grey one. Plus 4-5 jackets.

I have 3 or 4 coats and none of them fit any more . Frantically saving up for a new one before the weather gets too cold!

I have:

a good black wool mix one with faux-fur collar which I wear to work, from LK Bennett and about 5 yrs old - it had hideous plastic buttons which I changed for nice cloth-covered ones;
a Boden mac (pretty waterproof),maybe 3 yrs old, red and purple print;
a Boden printed blue flowers on beige background heavy cloth coat, 4 yrs old;
a fluorescent and reflective very heavily-padded workies' jacket I wear on the bike when it's freezing/ snowy.

I'm not counting jackets!

8?

Too many, and yet I never seem to have the right coat for many, many combinations of event + weather.

oooooh I feel right at home here with the coat enthusiasts
I have:

brown fluffy (alpaca?) double breasted full length
short navy wool with military buttons
dark choc brown shearling 3/4 length coat
knee length black puffa (last year's school run coat)
showerproof padded trench (as yet unworn, to be this year's school run coat )
thin (like a cagoule) showerproof raincoat thing
Boden fleece lined spotty raincoat thing from a few years ago which I never wear (I blame post partum hormones for its purchase)

I also have
short black leather jacket
short brown zip up leather jacket (is a shade too big for me now though so haven't worn for ages)
short waterproof hooded jacket (again a bit too big and a bit daft as altho' waterproof it has 3/4 length sleeves

I haven't included summer jackets of which there must be another 3 or 4

I was in the process of trying to decide whether it would be silly to buy another coat (faux fur) so this inventory has been very timely........and actually yes, I think there is room for another

Here goes- I have actually gone into coat cupboard to check!
Denim jacket
Denim jacket with fur collar
Brown cord fitted jacket
Green velvet military jacket
Boden waterproof jacket
Boden velvet coat
Black velvet pea coat
Silk Tuxedo jacket
Pink velvet Boden jacket
Green mac
Stone trench coat
Grey military coat
Black funeral coat
Browny green Next coat with huge mother of pearl buttons
Purple rain coat (Monsoon new forgot about that one)
White linen summer jacket
Brown tweed short jacket
Red wool short jacket
White rain coat
Navy puffa
2 non descript kagoule type waterproofs
Retro print jac in a pac kagoule
Full length tweed coat(had forgotten that one too)
Khaki safari type jacket
Black evening jacket
Long suede coat

I don't feel so bad now!!
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Waterproof coat from Animal

Chocolate velvet blazer

Plain black jacket

Black trench

So 4.

I'm getting a wool coat this month, not sure whether to go for cream or a brighter colour. Red, orange etc or one of each.

I also want to get a colourful Mac

And a nice fitted fleece to go under Animal coat for the cold cold days.

Oh and a nice evening jacket of some description.

I also have 15, of which 6 are macs. I can't stop myself buying coats for some reason.

Good lord.

I have

1 grey winter coat

1 ski jacket

1 short winter jacket in browns

1 gillet

1 cream rain mac

I gave 28 coats/jackets to charidee when I emigrated,that plus 12 scarves and 5 hats. And my sister pinched my Boden rainday mac.

I now have a pac a mac and a sort of sheepskin gilet thing for when I go back to England and an ancient gap Dr Who style scarf.

It feels very strange.

Off the top of my head:

Coats:
3 x long black wool types
1 x long red wool type
1 x camel (beautiful reduced by 2/3 in Harrods sale) full length designer number
1 x long black velvet
1 x long burgundy velvet
1 x "faux" sheepskin mid length
1 x blue mac (reversible - has red spots on other side)
1 x Burberry red mac (hardly ever wear this one now)
1 x medium length black leather
1 x long black "faux" sheepskin/fur number which Cruella would love
1 x padded sleeping bag thing

Jackets:
2 x skiing jackets
1 x blue velvet military thing
1 x sheepskin (from Joseph -it's lovely)
1 x thing fur thing
1 x padded sleeping bag (in different colour to coat)
1 x genuine copy of WWII US Pilot's jacket
1 x rip off (easier to wear) pilot's jacket thing

Oh and countless others... Some of them are even practical(ish)

Red Hilfiger duffle
Grey All Saints cotton trench
Next cream pleather parka
Monsoon black wool short coat
Black pleather jacket
Bleached denim biker jacket
Cotton cream trench
Sludgy coloured rain mac

I want a nice cosy skiing jacket, puffy with a furry hood. Must trawl TK Maxx.

Thank you form this thread ladies. I feel much better about my coats now. I thought i had a lot but I only have:-

Red military style three quarter length coat.
Turquoise Summer mac.
Boden winter mac (too big)
Mid calf 'dressy' coat
Brown puffa thing.

Really only like the first one, the rest are too big or wrong in some way (colour/style) as they pre-date my colour/style analysis sessions, but are too pricey to bin, and I have not as yet seen anything else I like that would replace them.