Whether it's a white leather version or a borrowed-from-the-boys olive green one, no trench coat escapes me. But year after year, they start to look boring—the same double-breasted look with the ...

The trench coat is kind of like retinol ... Don’t get it twisted, though—this isn’t a boy-who-cried-good-clothes situation; Madewell’s trench is the real deal. The cotton-poly fabric ...