Donkey jacket
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A Donkey jacket is a short buttoned coat, typically made of unlined black or dark blue woollen material; originally worn as a work jacket in the United Kingdom.
Often, there is a plastic panel covering the shoulder-blade areas. This panel can be plain black or grey, or fluorescent orange or yellow for conspicuity and for night use. When used as a work jacket, it sometimes bears the name of the company which supplies the jacket, or the name of the company for which the wearer works. The jacket usually has two spacious hip pockets, and occasionally an inside poacher's pocket.
The donkey jacket is regarded as typical of the British manual worker. It is also favoured by traditionalist skinheads.[1][2] Former British Labour Party leader Michael Foot was pilloried for supposedly wearing a donkey jacket at a remembrance day wreath laying ceremony,[3] and he was shown wearing one on several covers of the satirical magazine Private Eye; it was in actuality a "very expensive short overcoat" chosen by his wife. [4]
[edit] References
- ^ TradSkin.Org, (1999), alt.skinheads FAQ, (accessed 28 June 2007)
- ^ Marshall, George (1991). Spirit of '69 - A Skinhead Bible. Dunoon, Scotland: S.T. Publishing. ISBN 1-898927-10-3
- ^ Morgan, Kenneth O, "A lion in a donkey jacket", telegraph.co.uk, 11 March 2007, (accessed 28 June 2007)
- ^ Daily Mail
