The Amazing Trench Jacket

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It's not your grandmother's jacket, it's the trendy, stylish, uber-chic >>> THE amazing trench jacket!

The trench coat has evolved into a shorter, often times cropped, model to become the fashionable and uber-chic Amazing Trench Jacket! Today there are so many fashionable brands of the updated trench jacket, as well as the trench coat. 

The trench coat becomes a trench jacket when it rises above the mid to upper thigh.  Many of the stylish trench jackets are cut to fall just below, at, or just above the waist.

Let's take a look at what makes that trench jacket oh so amazing! ===> It's not your grandmother's jacket, it's the trendy, stylish, uber-chic and amazing trench jacket!

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The Amazing Trench Jacket was originally created on August 22, 2007.

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In this lens, I'll introduce you to a variety of the amazing trench jackets I've come across. For example, the one pictured here. It's the INC International Concepts® Cropped Double-Breasted Patent-Leather Trench Jacket for $209.00 was spotted at Macys. This trench jacket is definitely one of the more stylized examples of the Amazing Trench Jacket! It's leather and has a lot of stylish extras including a notched collar, epaulettes with domed-button details, domed button closures, and elbow-length sleeves with adjustable tabs at cuffs.

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Armani Exchange

This cute cropped trench jacket was spotted at Armani Exchange on sale for $89.99!

It's double breasted, with tab details on the shoulders and made of 100% cotton. Best of all, it's machine washable. The cropped styling is uber-sexy and oh so stylish!

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ BCBG

This is the BCBG Max Azria Double Breasted Crop Trench Jacket as spotted at Overstock for an unbeatable price of about $95.00.

Fun, functional double-breasted crop jacket is a wardrobe essential. BCBG Max Azria jacket features 3/4 dolman sleeves and cropped hem. Collarless jacket features side slit pocket details. Fine pattern detail. Fully lined. Available in mineral navy blue. 49-percent polyester/48-percent viscose/3-percent lastol. Machine wash.

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein Collection Reggie Short Trench Coat

Calvin Klein Collection Reggie Short Trench Coat


I love the double-breasted style of this pretty lightweight woven polyester trench jacket. It has a front 4-button closure with 3-button detail. At the waist is a self-belt. The neck guard at the fold-over collar is detachable. The look is completed with button-flap pockets at the hip. It has a buttoned back vent. It measures 30" long from back center. 100% polyester. Dry clean. Made in Italy.

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Diesel

This is adorable. It's the Diesel Certitude Cropped Fleece Trench Jacket in Heather Gray. It was spotted at Revolve Clothing for $191.00.

Diesel's keeping things sizzling hot as we transition into the height of spring and summer fashion.

87% cotton 13% poly. Distressed edges. Double breasted button front. Matching belt. Inverted pleat in back.

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Golden Goose

Golden Goose Cropped Trench Jacket

Golden Goose Cropped Trench Jacket


This pretty military style trench jacket is double-breasted made of a washed-canvas. It has a single-button closure on the fold-over collar with a 2-button detail at the front.

There is a concealed off-center zipper with 3-button closures at front. At the waist are patch pockets with a drawstring tie at the bottom hem. The military look is complete with an epaulet at the shoulders and yoke storm flap. It is 18" long as measured from the center back. 100% cotton. Hand wash. Made in Italy.

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Juicy Couture Kingsley

Juicy Couture Kingsley Coated Shrunken Trench Coat

Juicy Couture Kingsley Coated Shrunken Trench Coat


This cutie is double-breasted with a quilted fold-over collar. It has a 5-button closure with 5-button detail at the front. At the front and back are quilted storm flaps. it has a belted waist with ruched button-flap pockets placed at the hip. It has 3/4 sleeves with quilted cuffs. It measures 24" long from the center back. Shell: 70% linen/30% polyurethane. Body lining: 100% cotton. Sleeve lining: 100% acetate. Dry clean. Imported.

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Juicy Couture Polka Dots

Juicy Couture Polka Dot Cropped Trench Coat

Juicy Couture Polka Dot Cropped Trench Coat


This is a double-breasted, polka-dot woven jacket with a Peter Pan collar and 6-button closure at front. It has a buttoned storm flap with pretty ruching at the yoke. There is additional ruching at the waist with a gathered elastic banding at the cuffs. The sleeves are 3/4 length.

The trench jacket is lined and measures 21" long from center back. Shell: 98% cotton/2% elastane. Body lining: 100% cotton. Sleeve lining: 100% acetate. Wash cold or dry clean. Imported.

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Kaviar Gauche

Are you ready for this style? It's so much like a trench coat, but really cropped for lots of extra styling.

I love this. It's the Kaviar Gauche Short Cotton Trench Jacket. It was spotted at Nina and Lola for a sale price of £81.00!

Turn up the collar - this short trench jacket has some serious attitude built in. It's made of strong natural colour/cream cotton with double-breasted dark metal buttons. The arms are 3/4 trench style with the lower, longer sleeve layered in. The jacket has angled side pockets and is unlined. Made in Germany.

Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Lane Bryant

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Cropped Trench Jacket ~ Celebrity Style

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Cropped Trench Jacket

What a cute number! It was spotted at Shop Intuition for $120.00.

You'll look simply scrumptious in this three quarter sleeve cropped trench coat! Adorable fit due to puff sleeves, flared bottom, and tie belt. 100% cotton. Machine wash cold.

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Trench Jacket ~ Sundance

This semi-traditional styled trench jacket was spotted at Sundance for a very reasonable price of $120.00.

As chic as Rick's, as comfortable as Columbo's, our trench jacket streamlines the look, crops the line and brings it into the 21st century. Super-fresh tailoring with the asymmetrical buttons, plackets, pockets and back pleat to prove it. In sultry-soft cotton twill. Machine wash. Imported. Exclusive. Sizes 4-16. Approx. 23-3/4"L.

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This three-quarter trench jacket is more of a traditionally-stylized trench. It's available from Burberry in the dove gray for $1,095.00.

It's a double breasted 3/4 length trench jacket with self fabric belt and trench coat detailing. Button closure. Virgin wool and angora mix. Dry clean. Imported.

What's really cool about this is it's fitted, tailored styling along with the epaulettes and military style collar.

Trench Jackets ~ Burberry

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Trench Jacket ~ Theory

This Theory Short Trench Jacket was spotted at Bergdorf Goodman. It retailed for $475.00 and is now on sale for $166.00.

Caterina Style. Charcoal. Notched collar; double-breasted button front. Side slash pockets. Long sleeves with belted cuffs. 98% wool, 2% Lycra®.

This is a very classic trench style, but made of mostly wool.

Trench Jacket ~ Trovata Nadja

This is the Trovata Nadja Trench Jacket in a Brown Tweed. It was originally spotted in August 2006 at Active Endeavors. Although it was from Trovata's last year's collection, it still is stylish today!

Trovata's fall runway show evoked the style of a Swiss yodeler by flooding the collection with plaids and stripes against structured cuts. The runway was topped with newly fallen, albeit fake, snow to help create the illusion of the Swiss Alps. Brown and cream tweed Decorative belt at sleeve-ends. Front hand pockets with hidden mini pocket.

Trench Jacket ~ Big Chill

Wow! This is a big of a twist on the trench jacket. It's faux patent leather and a bit asymmetrical.

It's the Big Chill Asymmetrical Patent Leather Coat with Belt in Black spotted at Target, of all places, for a definitely unbeatable price of $14.99!!!

Hip-Length Trench Jacket. Made of 100% Polyester Coated With 100% Polyurethane; 100% Nylon Lining. Machine Wash Cold. Faux Patent Leather. Belt Closure, Zipper Closure. Notched Collar, Snap Cuffs. Slant Pockets.

Trench Jacket ~ Mike & Chris

Mike & Chris Worthington Trench Coat
Mike & Chris Worthington Trench Coat in Black


Mike & Chris Worthington Trench Coat

Mike & Chris Worthington Trench Coat in Gray


Mike & Chris Worthington Trench Coat

Mike & Chris Worthington Trench Coat in Bone


This is classic trench styling at its finest. It is a lightweight fleece trench jacket with a notched collar and 4-button closure. The front storm flaps are quilted as is the waist self-belt tie. At the hip are vertical welt pockets with a 4" back vent. It measures 31" long from center back. 80% cotton/20% polyester. Wash cold. Made in the U.S.A.

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Film Sightings of the Trench COAT

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The trench coat was a standard feature of the hardboiled detective in countless film noirs.
  • Blade in Blade Trilogy is often shown wearing a unique ankle-length trench coat, black with a red liner.
  • Brandon Lee as Eric Draven wore a trench coat as part of his wardrobe in the film "The Crow".
  • Kevin Smith's character creation Silent Bob always wears a green trench coat.
  • Lemony Snicket, fictitious author of the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, is often shown in photographs wearing a brown trench coat.
  • Carmen Sandiego wears a red trench coat and a red fedora as her main costume.
  • Creeper, in the movie Jeepers Creepers, would wear a trench coat that disguised himself.
  • The characters Mark and Ken Gor of the A Better Tomorrow films are also famous for their long, dark trench coats known as "dusters".
  • In the animated/live-action film Osmosis Jones, the evil Thrax (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) wears a black ankle-length trench coat.
  • Christian Bale and Sean Bean play the tetragramaton clerecs in the film Equlibrium wearing trench coats.

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