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Saturday, November 5, 2022

The face and form of leather coat beauty

This is one of the very first pictures of a lady in a leather coat that I ever collected from a catalog; maybe *the* first.  It is also one of my lifelong favorites.  The woman's beautiful face and the style with which she wears the leather coat struck me as utterly sensual and sleek.  I was 10 years old and the page came from the 1983 JCPenney Christmas catalog.  Sometime a couple years later this beloved page was lost in the mysterious void that childhood possessions vanish to.  It remained nothing but a fond memory for about 35 years.  I searched for it on the Internet for more than a decade without success.  Then in November 2021 I found it on a website of catalog scans!  Not only was I overjoyed to rediscover an old favorite picture, but I also made the surprising realization that the model was Rene Russo!  I had been in love with her since I was a boy and didn't know it.  


Incidentally, this is the very image I am describing on the book cover in Chapter VI.  Leather Coat Desire of Spellbound with a Kiss.  

2 comments:

  1. 10 or 11 was about the age I realised that leather coats had an effect on me and I would secretly go straight to the pages where the leather coats where in mail order catalogues. Any way of communicating via email?

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  2. Hi. You can email me at cuirbouilli@yahoo.com. I'd be happy to read your story.

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