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The gabarine overcoat was perhaps best known in England as a school coat, but we have notec it being worn in America, England, and France as a dress overcoat. Only in England was it commonly worn to school, most commonly at private schools. The gabardine school overcoat is remembered by large numbers of British school children. We notice the gabardine overcoat after World War I and it was commonly worn through the 1950s. We rarely notice it after the 60s, exceptt private schools in England and Scotland. It was worn by both boys and girls, but was more common for boys. One advantahe was theoretically that it was water repelant and thus could double as a raincoat. One English girl recalls the gabadine raincoat that she wat at age 8 to sunday school. Her mother told her that it was water repellant. She tested it out under a drain pipe and found that it was not.
Charlotte Peters Rock wrote a charming poem about this experience.
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