Possible Clues:

• Long heavy garment
• Get actor a bespoke item from wardrobe
• One may cover officer needing a car to get out
• A cottager that makes clothing
• Heavy part of uniform seen in famous film
• Missing entrance, stage actor mislaid part of costume?
• Protective garment a cottager fashioned
• Garment a cottager's sported
• Fantastic paint that might be put on outside?
• Animal crate assembled and put in warm covering