Re: [DL] Sure someone's gotta know this.

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Great coats.
          Daniel Gwyn
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-----Message d'origine-----
De : Nick Zachariasen <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>
À : deadlands@gamerz.net <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : Samstag, 30. September 2000 18:56
Objet : Re: [DL] Sure someone's gotta know this.


>> >Bit of lost history I'm trying to get right for my campaign.  What did
>> >they call trenchcoats prior to their being worn in the trenches in the
>> >Great War.  (From whence the name derives.)
>> >I've used the term "Saville Row Longcoat," but that seems a bit wordy.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Dusters, maybe? Or greatcoats. Or sometimes Railroad coats, as a lot of
>> train guards wore long dusters.
>
>No, I strongly doubt that trench coats became another name for dusters.
The
>two types of coat are cut quite differently.  I worea trench for five years
>before I got my duster for Christmas last year.  The duster looks
>drastically different from the trench, though there are still a lot of
>people who call my duster a trench coat.
>
>Nick Zachariasen
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