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The mackinaw jacket, also known as a mackinaw coat, [1] is a short double-breasted coat made of a thick heavy woollen material, generally with a red-and-black plaid pattern. [ 2 ] Etymology
The Mackinaw jacket traces its roots to coats that were made by white and Métis women in November 1811, [2] [3] when John Askin Jr., an early trader on the upper Great Lakes, hired them to design and sew 40 woolen greatcoats for the British Army post at Fort St. Joseph (Ontario), near Mackinac. His wife, Madelaine Askin, took an important role ...
The Canadian Mackinaw jacket, originally made from HBC blankets, [5] serves as a functional equivalent of the Hudson's Bay Company blanket coat. [6] The Hudson's Bay blanket coat served as a template for the Mackinaw jacket. [citation needed] The English language adopted the French word capote at least as early as 1812. [7]
Mackinaw cloth, a heavy and dense water-repellent woolen cloth; Mackinaw jacket, a short double-breasted wool coat; Mackinaw trout or Lake trout; Mackinac Rendezvous, an annual Boy Scouts of America event held in the Straits of Mackinac area
In the mid-1990s the Mackintosh brand owner, Traditional Weatherwear, was on the verge of closing its factory in Blairlinn, Cumbernauld near Glasgow. [10] Around the turn of the 21st century, senior staff members acquired the company and established the traditional rubberised Mackintosh coat as an upmarket brand in its own right.
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Mackinaw jacket; Mess jacket or eton jacket, similar to a tailcoat but cut off just below the waist. Worn as part of mess dress and formerly as the school uniform of boys under 5'4" at Eton College until 1976 and at many other English schools, particularly choir schools [6]
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