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Needs a photo, some history, originally military clothing ?, esp marine

Dead Poets Society - I think they wore duffle coats.

Doctor Who - Seventh Doctor as played by Sylvester McCoy wore one of the mentioned camel coloured duffle coats.

Since the name derives from Duffel and the two spellings are interchangeable, I'd have thought that the article should be at Duffel coat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.176.82.42 (talk) 20:02, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would be interested to know how it ended up here, I've never come across the duffle spelling. Is this a UK/US thing? EJBH (talk) 01:21, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is there actually such a thing as "genuine duffel" nowadays? Is it not simply coarse woollen cloth? Or is there actually a product called "duffel" that is still made in the eponymous town and marketed as such?

My duffel coat, which is a Gloverall 512c classic and as authentic as they come (for a contemporary duffle coat at least), is 80% wool and 20% nylon.Spiridens (talk) 00:47, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article, at times, reads like a Gloverall advertisement. Something ought to be done about this. Thomasmilliken (talk) 05:55, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article currently reads:

Field Marshal Montgomery was a famous wearer of the coat, as a means of identifying himself with his troops, leading to another nickname, "Monty coat".

This immediately struck me as dubious because when I picture Bernard Montgomery, I picture various kinds of military wear, but not a duffle coat. It is certainly true that Montgomery was famous and it is apparently also true that he wore a duffle coat on a few occasions. But it was not a typical attire of his. There are probably thousands of photographs of him, but I find it hard to find more than two or three that show him wearing a duffle coat. So it seems rather more likely that the coat was named after him because his name was used as a shorthand for the British military leadership. Or whatever else – but not because he wore the coat. The sentence is sourced to an Italian fashion school, but the link does not work anymore. I believe that is not a credible source for such a historical statement, or certainly not sufficient in the light of the reasons to doubt the claim I have outlined. --SKopp (talk) 20:45, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the Italian version of this wikipedia article of course uses the Italian name for the garment, which is il montgomery 91.84.112.39 (talk) 21:23, 14 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]