I ordered 3 overcoats in black herringbone for different occasions: one OTR single-breasted notch lapel back in 2024 when it first came out, one single-breasted peak lapel custom-made last year, and one double-breasted peak lapel custom-made last year.

I want to share my tips:

1. Make sure you know your desired dimensions, especially the length. For me, while the final DB overcoat design's length fell a inch or two short of my desired length, it was still the longest of my three overcoats as intended, albeit a tad longer (~0.25 inches) than my SBPL overcoat.

2. Please confirm with the team if certain features can be accommodated. For example, they were unable to do the dual closure in lieu of the left-over-right closure for double-breasted outfits.

3. Make sure that you communicate clearly with the team (especially when using photos), or irreversible features and errors will appear.

4. You need to have patience when doing custom orders. The time from start to finish may take longer than expected. For my case, my DB overcoat order underwent multiple iterations because of unwanted features and errors, and the process from start to finish for my case took nearly a year.

Also, just a note: the peak lapels start and end higher this year compared to those on the tan herringbone DB overcoat's peak lapels, so the peak lapels this year may peak out a bit from your trap line.

Anyway, S&L goes great lengths in experimenting different outfits, their designs, and colors for…