Congress is questioning the Navy’s decision to phase out the peacoat – its best-known piece of outerwear – as part of its 2018 budget deliberations.

Dear Marylou: I’d been waiting and waiting for Ralph Lauren’s navy wool peacoat to be marked down way down from its original price of $1,000. Then it occurred to me that I could buy the ...

Last August the Navy announced that it's phasing out the classic, navy blue peacoat, a button-up woolen garment that has changed little for centuries, and will switch to a synthetic parka, color ...

Right now, the Navy’s iconic peacoat is manufactured by a handful of textile companies in the Northeast, one of which, Sterlingwear of Boston, in Massachusetts, was awarded $48 million dollars ...