#coats

[foldingfittedsheets]

Back in my early twenties when I weighed about 90lbs I was always freezing cold. For this reason I wore jackets like an exoskeleton, layering a button up, hoodie, and an outer long wool coat. The upshot of this was always having tons of pockets, in which I carried a vast array of things.

Practical things like my keys, wallet, chapstick, of course. But also less conventional things like stray buttons, paperback books, little toys, nail clippers, and open bags of candy when I offered strangers new acquaintances candy they always said yes which either says they weren’t raised right or I’m more charming than years of being told not to do that.

I really loved my coats but I did sometimes need to move quicker than they allowed. I remember a friend’s utter astonishment when I saw someone I needed to run up to and said hold my coat. He was left holding my carapace and when I returned he couldn’t stop staring. “You’re so small under there, I’ve thought you were a normal person this whole time but it was all coat!”

At the doctors office getting weighed a week or so later I asked if I needed to take off my coat and boots. She said no, and I stepped on the scale. “A hundred and twenty pounds,” she announced.

My eyebrows shot up and I said, “Sorry, hang on.” I shucked my coat and boots to her impatience and stepped back on.

Her eyes widened and she looked back from me to the coat before saying accusingly, “Ninety seven.”

I nodded and redonned my protective carapace.

[sosuperawesome]

Wool Coat and Vest Sets // Linennaive

[burningvelvet]

historical costume appreciation: captain flint's dark coat in season one of black sails

[pinkjasmine]

Taylor Russell street style

[ghw-archive]

Riding Ensemble • ca. 1820 • Silk • American • Philadelphia Museum of Art (1936-12-3a,b--e) .

[chasingrainbowsforever]

~ Brown and Silver ~

[afterreight]

Grace Jones and Dolph Lundgren photographed by Ann Clifford, 1985

[girllookingoutwindow]

Colin's long coats are so ooooooo 😘👌

True.

[world-of-wales]

Catherine’s Royal Closet (67/∞) ♚

↬ Bespoke Double-Breasted Green Long Coat

The Midi-length bespoke Alexander McQueen Coat features elements from coats that company offers in their ready-to-wear collections. It has padded shoulders & peak lapels with button cuffs, front pocket flaps, and a defined waistline. Catherine has worn the coat on - ・ 31.01.2023 - 'Shaping Us' Launch visit to Leeds ・ 25.12.2024 - Christmas Walk at Sandringham

[theinternetarchive]

coat made of feathers, latvia c. 1860.

[mrs-trophy-wife]

[artschoolglasses]

From the Gazette du Bon Ton, 1922

[lovefrenchisbetter]

[ghw-archive]

Coat, 1833

[es-eternalstyle]

Cesare Attolini