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.
The little princess was in her sister-in-law's room. Prince Andrew in a traveling coat without epaulettes had been packing with his valet in the rooms assigned to him.
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.