In the Trenches

"Conspiracy theorists, start your search engines," write David Colman in this week's Trading Up column for the NY Times. "If ever there was a season and a reason to be suspicious, it is now. Did Mother Nature secretly collude with Uncle Fashion to create this spring's retail phenomenon: the trench coat?" He rounds up some of the season's best trenches, from Dries Van Noten and Belstaff to, of course, Burberry.

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