Shopaholics! Please help me find a similar coat for ds!

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Saw this coat in M&S the other day, but they did not have it in my son's size (11-12). They are sold out nationwide, would you believe, and the sales assistant couldn't promise me that they would be getting any more in this season. - which only has another 6 months to run! Silly me for leaving it until it got cold to think about buying ds a coat.

Anyway, in case you can't really tell from the link, it is one of those 3 in 1 coats with a zip in fleece jacket inside the waterproof main part of the coat. It is this feature that I really want - colour is less important though I suppose it will end up being navy, black or grey anyway.

So who else is selling a coat similar to this? Please help me look as I find shopping deadly dull.

This is the first one I found - you'll be able to get it in Millets as well.
This and this are a bit more expensive, although that second one is available at a much lower price here , and you often get Regatta stuff reduced in Mountain Warehouse etc.

This one is well-priced but not available in 11-2 (grr) - nor's this but if he can bear a 13-14 the blue version might be worth a shot.

Don't know how waterproof the JL version would be, but you could always cheat and get a school uniform one.

Or there's another one here

phew!

Well, I was going to try and help but I think Mrs Badger has doing it all!! LOL

*doing = done

Blimey MrsB - you truly are the queen of links.

Crikey Mrs badger. You take my breath away! Errr, how long did that take you and have you really nothing else to do this pm? Seriously, thanks!

I was in John Lewis same day as I went to M&S and could find nothing appropriate at all. I wondered if boys over 10 were supposed to wear coats from what they had for sale! But judging by your links, the kind of coat I want is mostly to be found in outdoor shops rather than fashion shops so perhaps I would have had more success if I had looked in the outdoor section rather than school uniform and fashion sections.

I don't know what to choose from this. I am not used to buying clothes on the internet and I am not sure what would be better. Has anyone any reccomendations, either of individual coats shown here, or of the retailers?

"recommendations" - ds3 is playing a glockenspiel very loudly in my ears right now!

Blacks own Millets or visa versa. You should be able to get the first jacket linked in either of them. I have bought my dc winter coats from Millets for the last 2 years and haven't had any problems with them.

this?

LIZS - thanks but when I clicked on it, it is currently out of stock! There must be millions of well wrapped up 11-12 year old boys out there!

Thanks Fimbo, will concentrate on those two then.

Or, sudden thought! I wonder if La Redoute do them as I have a money off voucher somewhere...Must look for the catalogue....

only about 10min, was killing time at work waiting for a phone call. It's all in the Google syntax.

I'd go to Millets or Blacks if you can get to one and try it on in real life - they may also have more in store than online. Peter Storm and Regatta are both good brands but I don't think I have any experience of any of the retailers I linked to, except JL who are generally good.