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Serious coat season is just around the corner and this winter is putting maxi coats back on the map.
The panic for extra long coats can be easily traced in the feed of the best fashionistas who have been spending their time under the haze of winter temperatures for over a month now.
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One of the standouts in the genre is a red leather trench coat with a glossy finish by Polish celeb-favorite designer Magda Boterm worn by Danish influencer Emilie Sindlev, Elsa Husk, Tiffany Shaw and actress Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit).
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The statement of a coat in a bright shade that dominates the whole look is demonstrated by other It Girls such as Anna Vitello who adopted an orange monogram quilted coat by Victoria Beckham or Vicky Rader and Carla Ginola who went for strong pink shades that cannot be ignored.
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More relaxed versions of the boiling trend are not lacking and they come in a lighter and softer package alongside silhouettes that resemble a relaxed robe in ankle-kissing length.
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The big advantage of the long coats is the total coverage which not only warms but gives the whole performance chic right at the moment.
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As in other stories, the maxi coats landed in the female arena in the early seventies of the last century straight from the institutional male wardrobe.
This happened as a fitting answer to the invention of the short mini skirt that was claimed half a decade earlier and was a symbol of the phenomenon known today as "fashion victim".
The immense popularity of the mini made those who wore it shiver in the winter in order not to give up the modern silhouette of the skirt.
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The elegant maxi coats were inspired by the uniform of the Cossack army in the movie Der Zhivago and were warmly embraced by the women's community that solved the issue of heating the knees but risked a new safety problem: escalators, puddles and stumbling in the public space.
Panic over the new trend led to media ridicule, such as an urban legend about an American bus driver who proudly told the New York Daily News how he keeps his bus clean: "I wait for a group of maxi-coats to get on and then I make them all move back."
In the 80s, the coat The relevance of the long coats returned to the mainstream image as part of the era of power dressing.
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The idea that maxi coats symbolize some kind of threat to the status of the heterosexual man has long since been forgotten.
What remains is a justified, useful and warming item that will always save us on a winter day when we have nothing to wear.
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