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Requiem for the Belle Epoque

So who is this guy who posts an entire blog about women wearing long leather coats? Find out in the following memoir... I contently g...

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Esther Canadas November 1996

Janet Leigh ca.1955

Shiraz Tal 1993 Vogue France


Leather coat ladies 2020


Alejandra Alonso Rojas Fall-2019



Leather noir



Leather coats 2019-2020


These days you never know if the coat or jacket is made of real leather or not.  Even if it is genuine leather it is often tanned in such a way that it is difficult to tell because it is made to look rather artificial I think.  The jacket and bag on the bottom right are entirely synthetic "vegan leather".  I confess that I don't understand the paradox of being vegan, but wanting to wear clothing that looks like leather.  Seems confusing to me.

Bottega Veneta 2019


Gretha Cavazzoni for Christian Dior 1993


City Boy album cover 1977

Back when the fall delivered catalogs that were paper and awesome

The Montgomery Ward Fall&Winter Catalog 1975

Sunday, February 16, 2020