"His clothes are like a dead man's as well, cut from fabrics Tito imagined exuding their own chill, a cold distinct from even this uneven New York winter. The cold of unclaimed luggage, institutional corridors, of steel lockers scoured to bare metal"-William Gibson, Spook Country
"...old men in old coats with nothing else to do..."
Milgrim passes by wearing the Paul Stewart overcoat.
Jimmy Crump wears a Matt J. Graif overcoat, issued by the authority of Amalgamated Clothing. Union Made Garment. Workers of America. General Executive board. 80. Series GBS. 36 and 37 written on the tag in an old style Penmanship.
The Deadman's Coat
It just does not fit me.
My head is too small, tjhe shoulder pads my head.
Phasing in the mirror I could then see the deadman in the coat. His hair short and brown and combed over not unlike hitler. A large, bushy mustach. Intense but beady eyes, slightly sunken in.
The color is the best part. it is a non color, not grey, not green-chaki, but an indistinct color a sort of fade into black and white, a shift of grayscale. What color looked like when things were black and white.