The Double Breasted Common Coat is a wider-wrap version of the Type 916 Common Coat. The front is fastened with a full set of sewn melamine tailor’s strap buttons, but it does not have show buttons: the stitching of the anchor buttons is visible on the outside. Rather than aping a fully tailored garment, the manufacture remains true to the idea of understandable construction, with a single side seam joining the body and sleeve, like a shirt or work jacket.

Common coats were in fact worn for work, a standard garment which would often move from Sunday best to weekday labour as it began to show its age. The front is fastened with two-and-two buttons; large, simple patch pockets are sewn onto the fronts at hand height.