Thanks for the heads up Richard. Knowing a bit about historical clothing styles, it did strike me as odd that it is collarless. I know that many coats in the mid 18th century were collarless, but through the late 18th century and early 19th century collars became popular....getting taller and taller through the years up until the Victorian era I believe.

That piece of trivia doesn't change my desire to reproduce this coat at all though. It wasn't my desire to reproduce a historically accurate coat. I just like the coat! I don't think we'll refer to it as "a copy of a coat worn in 1822" anymore.