Black works harder than any other colour in a trench coat and we think most men quietly know this. The classic camel or stone versions are beautiful in the right wardrobe, but black removes every question about what it goes with and adds a sharpness that the lighter options simply cannot match. Over a suit heading into the office or thrown over a hoodie on a Saturday morning, it reads as considered either way. What we have been looking at specifically is construction. Belt quality, storm flap stitching, how the collar sits when it is actually up in the rain rather than turned down for a photograph. A lot of trench coats look excellent on a hanger and lose something the moment a real person puts them on. These do not have that problem. We have also looked hard at length, because a black trench that hits at the wrong point on the leg undoes everything else. These hit right.