Winning The Cold War

November, 1980

Long the Neclected stepchild of fashion, the outercoat has suddenly been rediscovered by designers. Whether or not the neglect was due to a general feeling that men didn't care about style as long as they kept warm inside their dull cloth coats, attitudes began changing last winter, when the quilted look in outerwear caught on in a big way. (So much so, in fact, that quilting has spilled over into a host of other types of appareal.) Thus, the good news for this season is that there's a wealth of...