How to Get the Look: Autumn coats

This electric-blue, single-breasted felted wool number from Bruuns Bazaar is beautiful, bold and not bad value to boot

New coat time. The only silver lining at the end of summer.

For many of us Brits, a new coat is a joy forever – or at least for a couple of autumns. Personally speaking, I'm loath to take my coat off between September and June for anything other than washing and sleeping.

Guess that would make even a Burberry mac a low cost-per-wear item.

If only. Although I've always thought the classic trench a little exaggerated as a suits-all. This may be because much of my wardrobe is the colour of Newport on a wet day, hence why I need something way more zingy than beige to compensate.

What are you suggesting?

This electric-blue, single-breasted felted wool number from Bruuns Bazaar is beautiful, bold and not bad value to boot (£349, bruunsbazaar.com). I like the idea of wearing it with Bruuns' matchy blue jumper, but it's also available in black if you're dull or your palette is, in fact, "Newport on a wet day".

Something a little less austere cut-wise?

Trenches aside, Burberry's burgundy Manningford coat looks wonderfully fluid, with just the right level of oversized-ness to seem casually chic when belted. Worth committing some kind of non-violent crime for (£995, my-wardrobe.com).