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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The Canadian Mackinaw jacket, originally made from HBC blankets, [5] serves as a functional equivalent of the Hudson's Bay Company blanket coat.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]
Mackinac Trail (or Mackinaw Trail), two related, but separate, roadways in Michigan Mackinac Trail – Carp River Bridge , a bridge along the Mackinac Trail over the Carp River in Mackinac County Mackinaw State Forest , a state-owned forested area in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan
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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Speakers of American English sometimes informally use the words jacket and coat interchangeably. [3] The word is cognate with Spanish jaco and Italian giacca or giacchetta, first recorded around 1350s. It is ultimately loaned from Arabic shakk (شكّ), which in turn loaned from Aramaic and Hebrew shaḳḳ (שַׁקּ). [4]
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