Burberry Women's Fashion Brand

Burberry Group PLC is a British luxury fashion house headquartered in London, England. Its main fashion house focuses on and distributes trench coats, ready-to-wear outerwear, fashion accessories, fragrances, sunglasses and cosmetics - and they have a fabulous collection each year for women. Established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, originally focusing on the development of outdoor attire, the fashion house has moved onto the high fashion market.

The move was powered by a fabric. Burberry is credited with the creation of gabardine, the first fabric of its kind, completely breathable and waterproof, exclusively made for the brand. Weatherproof and breathable at once was a genuine invention in the age of rubberised cloth, and it made the house's name with people who worked and travelled outdoors - the reputation the trench coat later turned into fashion history. The first shop opened in the Haymarket, London, in 1891, and Burberry was an independent family-controlled company until 1955, when it was reincorporated.

The Check, the Trench and the Women's Wardrobe

Its distinctive check pattern has become one of its most widely copied trademarks - the understatement of this letter. The check, used across 45-degree pattern-based scarves, trench linings and accessories, became so recognisable that copying it became an industry of its own; Apparel Search's blog coverage of Burberry suing over the pattern is among the editorial links carried on this page, alongside the house's Apparel Search profile and the Thomas Burberry designer page.

For women, the modern wardrobe built on that heritage is anchored by the trench: a gabardine coat is still the house's thesis statement, weatherproofing cut like tailoring. Around it sit ready-to-wear outerwear, the scarves that carry the check at its most wearable, and accessories, fragrances, sunglasses and cosmetics that distribute the name at every price a luxury house can reach. Buying the trench is buying the 1856 idea; buying the scarf is buying its signature; both are more considered purchases than the logo-first shopping the copying industry encourages.

Buying Burberry for Women

Authenticity is the first discipline at this level, because widely copied trademarks attract widely practised copying. Buy from the house, its authorised retailers, or resale sellers who document labels, hardware, buttons, stitching and provenance in detail; a trench's gabardine should feel dense and dry-handed, its check lining should align with precision, and every engraved and woven mark should be crisp. A price that ignores the market is not a bargain - it is evidence.

Then buy the garment as clothing. A trench should be tried over knitwear, belted and unbelted, with its storm flap, cuff straps and lining sitting as designed; sizes in British luxury tailoring reward trying two. Care follows the fabric's ambition: gabardine outerwear wants specialist cleaning and re-proofing advice from the maker over the years, scarves want gentle handling and folded storage, and leather goods want the standard condition-and-rest routine. Looked after, a Burberry trench is the rarest thing in this directory - a 19th-century invention that has never needed replacing.

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