The Trench Coat Was Made for the Trenches #Shorts

▶ Full episode - all ten: https://youtu.be/gh79d-2QPQc Before the First World War, British officers wore heavy wool greatcoats that soaked up rain and mud. Burberry and Aquascutum still argue about who made the first trench coat. Burberry used gabardine, a cotton woven so tight the rain ran off it. Officers bought their own, and every detail had a job: shoulder straps for rank badges, a chest flap against the rain, rings on the belt for maps and equipment. After 1918 the officers came home and kept the coats. Hollywood gave them to detectives and spies, and Humphrey Bogart wore one at the end of Casablanca. The war ended. The coat never went back. Full story on the channel. #darkhistory #history #shorts