youngScholar
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I was reading a book otherwise unrelated to fashion when I happened upon the following quote:
"The world is full of overcoats because one day about 1840 or 1850 the Count d'Orsay, a French dandy living in London, was returning from the races mounted on his fine dapple-gray mare. It began to rain and he asked a passing workman to lend him the sleeved smock that was then worn by the English populace. Such was the invention of the overcoat."
How accurate is this?
"The world is full of overcoats because one day about 1840 or 1850 the Count d'Orsay, a French dandy living in London, was returning from the races mounted on his fine dapple-gray mare. It began to rain and he asked a passing workman to lend him the sleeved smock that was then worn by the English populace. Such was the invention of the overcoat."
How accurate is this?