Figure 1.--This Dutch boy wears a classic duffle coat in a 1956 magazine advertisement.
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Figure 1.--This Dutch boy wears a classic duffle coat in a 1956 magazine advertisement. |
The duffle coat or jacket owes its name from a course woolen material made in the Belgian town of Duffel. The duffel coat as we know it today with the hood and wodden toggels owes its popularity to the British Navy which opted it for use during World War II. The duffle coat is known in the Netherlands as "houtjes-touwtjes-jas". It was very popular from the 1950s-80s. During the cold winter months lots of boys wore them. The Dutch name means: a coat (=jas) with bits of wood (=houtjes) and bits of string (=touwtjes). The British have called these "Monteycoats" after Field Marshall Montgomery.
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