This store is selling Marine-style dress blue coats — for $2,600

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The British fashion group Burberry is selling a cotton silk regimental jacket that might look very familiar to U.S. Marines.

The navy jacket trades the white belt, eagle, globe and anchor, and rank insignia Marines wear for an “army of brass buttons,” according to its catalog description — but the style and red trim closely resemble an enlisted leatherneck’s dress coat.

“The designer looked at a dress blue jacket and said, ‘That’s a cool jacket, but with 30 or 40 more buttons it could be way cooler,'” one commenter wrote on the Terminal Lance Facebook page.

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