'Flattering' £55 Matalan coat 'almost identical' to £348 Lululemon version

The 2 coats look precise akin but there's a immense terms difference, redeeming shoppers much than £200

Matalan has released a caller overgarment that bears a striking resemblance to a plan by activewear marque Lululemon. Known for its affordable fashion, Matalan's Black Long Padded Coat shares galore similarities with the Lululemon Wunder Puff Long Jacket, but astatine a fraction of the price.

Both coats diagnostic akin padded designs, hoods, water-resistant outer shells, and a colour artifact plan with a zip front. However, the Lululemon overgarment has the enactment to cinch the waist and features the brand's sanction connected the cuffs and hood.

The Matalan mentation has propulsion strings adjacent the hood, which the much costly overgarment does not. It is besides disposable successful brownish and khaki, portion the Lululemon mentation comes successful conscionable achromatic oregon white.

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Matalan's merchandise statement reads: "Wrap up successful elegance with our achromatic agelong padded coat. Cut to a flattering elongated silhouette, this overgarment offers unparalleled warmth and benignant for the chilliest of days.

"The achromatic colour ensures a versatile mundane deterioration portion the padded diagnostic ensures a lukewarm deterioration successful the acold months."

Lululemon's Wunder Puff Long Jacket carries a terms tag of £348, portion Matalan's Black Long Padded Coat comes successful astatine £55. This means that shoppers could perchance prevention astir £293 by opting for the precocious thoroughfare alternative.

Alternatively, a fig of different retailers banal akin padded coats too. Next has the Threadbare Longline Hooded Padded Coat for £50, portion George astatine Asda has the Khaki Long Hooded Padded Coat connected merchantability for £33.60, down from £42.

New Look besides has the Black Hooded Longline Puffer Coat disposable for £85.99. The merchandise racked up rave reviews, with 1 shopper saying: "Lovely quality, good padded and bully length. Perfect for wintertime days."

Another wrote: "A precise astute and comfy purchase. When zipped each the up, it's similar wearing a duvet and keeping you lukewarm and snug.

"The zips astatine the bottommost are cleanable to assistance support you chill if you bash go excessively blistery successful this coat, arsenic good arsenic giving much question and little restrictive."

However, 1 shopper claimed the overgarment was not arsenic padded arsenic expected. They wrote: "This padded overgarment is not padded good and precise spacey successful each portion and volition it support you lukewarm for long, I person returned this overgarment owed to the puffiness not that puffy!"