So you don't think that's a top coat / over coat? What else would it be? What jacket goes mid-length down your leg? I'd say the white is a scarf, possibly / probably covering his tie.
The real question here is: why is the general wearing an overcoat? Everyone else in both pictures is dressed similarly, so you can't say he's wearing an overcoat simply because it's colder.
Not at all, but so what? Everybody feels the cold differently. The point is, a general wouldn't (to my knowledge) wear his ribbons on his overcoat, so it is natural that they wouldn't be showing in the bottom photo. He may have been wearing them on his uniform underneath. Honestly, I can't believe how many stupid comments people here make about things that are so blatantly obvious.
It doesn't cancel out. LW was suggesting that the other people in the bottom picture were dressed differently, as if the general were 'overdressed.' That's not the case. But even if they were all wearing lighter clothes, it wouldn't matter because everybody is different and he might have felt the cold more. It's a stupid argument for you to make.
Well, in the bottom picture he is wearing an overcoat. I wouldn't think a general would wear his ribbons on an overcoat.
To my untrained eye it looks pretty slim and form fitting for an overcoat. Also doesn't appear to be wearing a tie like top pic.
So you don't think that's a top coat / over coat? What else would it be? What jacket goes mid-length down your leg? I'd say the white is a scarf, possibly / probably covering his tie.
Storm coat. No ribbons.
The real question here is: why is the general wearing an overcoat? Everyone else in both pictures is dressed similarly, so you can't say he's wearing an overcoat simply because it's colder.
Every other person in that photo is also wearing an overcoat.
Not at all, but so what? Everybody feels the cold differently. The point is, a general wouldn't (to my knowledge) wear his ribbons on his overcoat, so it is natural that they wouldn't be showing in the bottom photo. He may have been wearing them on his uniform underneath. Honestly, I can't believe how many stupid comments people here make about things that are so blatantly obvious.
In both pics they are wearing overcoats. It cancels out.
It doesn't cancel out. LW was suggesting that the other people in the bottom picture were dressed differently, as if the general were 'overdressed.' That's not the case. But even if they were all wearing lighter clothes, it wouldn't matter because everybody is different and he might have felt the cold more. It's a stupid argument for you to make.
The overcoat does NOT have ribbons. The rank is on the should boards. The uniform is under the overcoat. Its there. I assure you.
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Well it was a whopping 2 degrees colder on Biden's inauguration day so that fully explains it.