OK. Looks like the US contingent will give coats a stab. Like Mudcat, when it starts to cool off here, maybe post SWAKOP unless I wind up trying a coat for that in which case, sooner.
I'm addicted to coat patterns though it's seldom cool enough for a proper coat. But I'm thinking some long unstructered, unlined trench type coat in...linen. Chocolate brown linen. I have scads of it, all the same base, some with marvelous embroidery in black on it. Might combine that with plain. We'll see.