{"product_id":"canali-caramel-brown-vintage-wool-cashmere-balmacaan-overcoat","title":"Canali Caramel Brown Vintage Wool \u0026 Cashmere Balmacaan Overcoat","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the Canali Caramel Brown Vintage Wool and Cashmere Balmacaan Overcoat. The caramel brown sits at the warm end of the tan spectrum, a tone close enough to vicuña in its depth and luminosity that it carries something of that fibre's particular quality even in wool and cashmere, the colour neither pale nor saturated but occupying the precise point where warmth and restraint are the same thing. The cloth is woven by Ing. Loro Piana, the Biella mill whose position in the hierarchy of Italian fabric production is without serious competition, the wool and cashmere blend carrying the softness and the drape that the mill's sourcing and finishing processes are built to produce, the fabric substantial enough for a long overcoat's demands while remaining light enough in the hand that wearing it does not feel like carrying it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Balmacaan is among the oldest and most enduring of the named overcoat silhouettes, its origins traced to Balmacaan House near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, where the coat's combination of raglan sleeves, a small turndown collar and a loose, slightly flared body was developed as a practical response to the demands of the Scottish countryside in the late nineteenth century. The raglan sleeve construction, which eliminates the shoulder seam by running the sleeve from the collar all the way through, was named after Field Marshal Lord Raglan of the Crimean War and had been adopted by outerwear makers for the freedom of movement it allowed and the cleaner silhouette it produced in a heavy cloth. On the Balmacaan the raglan sleeve gave the coat its characteristic ease through the shoulder and chest, the body falling freely from that point with a gentle flare that allowed it to be worn over the heaviest layers without pulling or restricting. By the early twentieth century the Balmacaan had migrated from the country to the city, worn as a town overcoat through the interwar decades and carried forward as one of the definitive silhouettes of classic menswear, the coat that appears in the wardrobes of men who dress with knowledge rather than fashion. It remains today the correct choice for those seeking a classic raglan overcoat, a vintage Balmacaan, a long wool and cashmere overcoat in a caramel or vicuña-adjacent brown, or simply a coat built to last and worn to improve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Canali example is cut to a long length, the hem falling well below the knee in keeping with the Balmacaan's original proportion, the silhouette reading as a single clean line from the small turndown collar to the hem. Canali's construction is confident and considered, the vintage provenance of the piece placing it in a period of Italian overcoat-making before the market's pressure toward lighter, shorter garments had fully arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Balmacaan overcoat in Ing. Loro Piana wool and cashmere at this colour is not a coat for every wardrobe. It is a coat for the wardrobe that has been thinking about it for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canali","offers":[{"title":"46 IT \/ 36 US \/ Small \/ Caramel Brown \/ 85% Wool \/ 15% Cashmere","offer_id":59027640582476,"sku":"SA02779","price":378.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0653\/6187\/1105\/files\/D1320C10-4C8E-4ABE-AAF9-97705C09D57B.jpg?v=1790961365","url":"https:\/\/sartorialistamsterdam.com\/products\/canali-caramel-brown-vintage-wool-cashmere-balmacaan-overcoat","provider":"Sartorialista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}