Navy is traditional, and the right move if you want to honor the peacoat’s history, but unless you’re actually in the Navy ...

Q: Who designed the U.S. Navy pea coat? It had to be many decades ago, but it is still such a great design that it shows up in catalogs, Amazon and online stores. And how did it get its name?

The statue “A Lone Sailor” by Stanley Bleifeld wearing the iconic US Navy peacoat. Congress is questioning the Navy’s decision to phase out the peacoat – its best-known piece of outerwear ...

By the 1850s, the peacoat had become popular in the United States and Great Britain. The version illustrated here is available at J. Peterman Company, 2444 Palumbo Drive, Lexington, Ky. 40509.

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 ...

The price, though, is the real whale in the harbor here: at $3,495, this peacoat adorned with the rank insignia of a chief petty officer costs more than a chief petty officer makes in a month ...

She also said the parka would eventually "reduce cost to the Navy’s annual uniform budget.” Until the change becomes effective, sailors’ bags are required to contain the $145.50 wool peacoat ...

Meanwhile, the US Navy has long argued that peacoat comes from a nickname for the coarse jackets worn by seafarers: the P-jacket, or pilot's cloth. Pedants still remain divided on the name.

Another possible origin stems from the US Navy, whose heavy coats worn at sea were once made from a coarse ‘pilot cloth’, which over time got shortened to P-jacket, and eventually (in the ...