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As an ex-Chemist, a Lab Coat.
I'd call it a "work coat" eg https://www.hivis.co.uk/premier-pr601-work-coat.html
A quick google throws up Warehouse coat and work jacket which seem fine to me but not what I would call it.
Edit: If it were white I'd go with lab coat. Not sure why the colour makes a difference to me.
mini-dress
Apparently it's a Warehouse Coat. Who knew?
Blue & gold.
Chore
My Lab Coats never stayed white, only the absorbed chemicals held it together. God knows what reactions would have occurred if it ever got wet.
A Dust coat.
An engineer's jacket. Used to work for McVities and all the engineering technicians on the production line wore them. Plus you could fit a few cheeky Digestives in the pockets too 😉
Technician's coat
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Deep joy.
It's a Jannycoat for the protecty of the shoulderbladeys and the purpose of the coverolds all down to the kneeclabbers. Oh yes.
Hmmm.
When I did my apprenticeship at GEC, these were known as smocks.
I didn't agree with that then as even as a sixteen year old, to me a smock was a light garment an artist would wear to protect clothing. And it didn't fasten, just went over the head.
Warehouse coat and lab coat are too specific.
So I'm going to suggest a nice portmanteau: workcoat.
Or an Arkwright.
labcoat
All of the above answers I would agree with, seems to me depending on the colour it changes name.
Put some blue piping on a 'Lab Coat' and you turn from a chemist into Ernie the fastest milkman in the west.
Also can be known as a howie coat (only found after eBay searching for howies)
Dave.
The old guy that's been on the shop floor for 50yrs workwear
At my old school that's a metalworking apron, as the appropriate woodworking apron was white (as any phule no) Yes I'm aware that 's not what you or I may think of as an apron, but there you go...
I've heard them called different things from a lab coat, to a cow gown (?). Lab coat is what we call them now, as they're worn in the lab.
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as they’re worn in the lab.
Unless they're worn in a warehouse or on the factory floor or by the school caretaker or...
Surely a lab coat is white, a darker blue would be a engineer workshop technicians coat, grey I would associate with a lab technician, I could see that blue being associated with warehouse staff
An overall.
Unless they’re worn in a warehouse or on the factory floor or by the school caretaker or…
You asked what do others call it, I work in a lab, hence they're call lab coats. I'm sure if I worked elsewhere they'd have a name which was appropriate. Where I've seen them worn on a factory floor, they were called cowgowns.
Pre PCR lab coat.
I thought overalls had legs. As that covers the body I would have called it a coat.
They. As in the Invisible They.
Da ba dee da ba daa.
Smock is what I know it as.
I could see that blue being associated with warehouse staff
Blue is for food prep. So it's noticeable In case they fall in.
I've got one, that exact Dickies one in that colour!
I was issued it when I was a placement student working as a mechanical test engineer ~20 years ago.
It's a "Lab coat" to me because I wore it in a Test Lab, although other people might call it a "Shop coat" because they wore the same thing in a workshop...
Cow gown. When I started working in the late 70s you wore a cow gown or overalls.
Warehouse jacket
smock. Back in the early 70s, anyway.
Une blouse (de travail)
Dustcoat
Smock in a warehouse, lab coat if you were in a lab.
At our place its a smock, blue or white, NB NOT a lab or warehouse ! Cow gown would make more sense but I've never heard that before, sounds a bit Lankysheer ter me !
I remember my grandfather wearing a grey one years ago and he always called it a smock , even though we understand a smock to be something pulled over the head with no fasteners.
+n for smock, before I'd read any of the replies.
I thought smock as soon as I saw the pic, but then thought it was probably a lab coat of some sort...
We wear white ones to show cattle. I think we just call them white coats.
My Lab Coats never stayed white, only the absorbed chemicals held it together. God knows what reactions would have occurred if it ever got wet.
I remember one of mine being removed for laundering without my knowledge as a junior chemist BITD. The issue wasn't the potential reactions, my stains were mainly detergent samples anyway.....but I lost a month's worth of experimental results written on the sleeve.
Smock? Nah man. A smock doesn't have a full opening. It goes on over your head.
We wear white ones to show cattle
Show them what?
Show them what?
The coats obvs.
"Ere, Daisy....What does 'e think of me new coat then?"
"Mooooooooo"
"Proper job"
Da ba dee da ba daa.
Only when worn in a blue house with blue windows.
In BT this was always a dust coat worn by exchange engineers.