He was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank;a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass;this officer no longer possessed a helmet.
The clerk then felt the lowliness of his position; he longed for epaulettes, crosses, titles. All that would please her—he gathered that from her spendthrift habits.
But all the guards of honour, either possessed or had borrowed, one of those pretty sky-blue uniforms, with two silver colonel epaulettes, which had shone seven years ago.
It cost me about $200-$250 and I bought it from eBay in the UK. It is very heavy, it has leather buttons, it has a smaller peak lapel and epaulettes that shows there is a military heritage to that coat.