Help me Configure my Polo Coat

[Badden]

Ordering a new MTM polo coat from The Andover Shop, and would appreciate some comments on the two options below:

1. 4x2 DB with peak lapels (a more standard overcoat configuration)
2. 6x3 DB with Ulster collar (the classic Polo configuration with a higher roll and shorter lapel)

Either option will have turnback cuffs and a martingale.

Any thoughts on a flapped breast pocket - too old-school?

[Frederic Leighton]

I like peak lapels and high button stance on a polo coat. 6x2, 6x3 or 8x3. At some point I've been wearing each one of those configurations.

8x3 may need a good degree of self-confidence, but I found it very enjoyable to wear. This would be my choice for a coat to wear mostly for walks and leasure time. I would go for brown colour, heaviest weight, flapped patch pockets, flapped breast pocket (on the right in the illustration below).

I'm not sure I could wear a polo coat every day on my daily commutes - length and buttons make it a bit impractical on London public transport during rush hour. Anyway, in this case I would go for something like the coat in the middle: 6x4, dark colour, welt breast pocket, medium weight and possibly slightly shorter length.

[alden]

https://vimeo.com/17920654

[Badden]

Thanks to both Michael and Frederic.

Here's the style I'm leaning towards - 6 x 3, peak lapels with quite a bit of belly and swelled edges, with the lapel softly rolled to the middle button, regular breast welt, turnback cuffs, set-in sleeves, and a martingale.

[hectorm]

Dear Badden,
I own a 6x2 DB Polo Coat with peak lapels and, although very satisfied with it, I sometimes miss not having a combination collar on it. The peak lapels make it a bit more elegant but the combination collar would have made it more practical for those really cold winter days.
Maybe in the 6x3 stance of your choice and with very wide lapels you could make it work better.

[Badden]

Thanks, Hector - by a combo collar are you referring to an Ulster?

[hectorm]

Yes, Badden.
It´s the typical DB Ulster overcoat collar. A substantial one with deep notches that allow the lapels to be crossed in front of your chest while perfectly buttoned up, and the collar turned up around your neck (as a peak lapel cannot). I called it combination collar but I´m aware that I may be the only one doing so and that most people call it convertible collar.