A homage to all the ladies from the 1970s to the first decade of the new millennium who were sophisticated enough to button up a long leather coat over an elegant outfit and strut their stuff. Sleek leather coats disappeared from mainstream fashion for a while, but their popularity may be on the rise once more. This page is dedicated to those who hope that such classic style finds its way back into women's wardrobes again someday.
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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...
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I love Romaine's costume. The play is set in 1920s England. Did women wear black leather coats like that back then?
ReplyDeleteHi Maeve. Leather coats would have been bulky double-breasted motoring coats in the 1920s, from what I have seen in pictures, and this would have been a new type of fashion. To the best of my knowledge the first serious use of leather as outerwear occurred with the flight jackets of pilots in World War I. I have never seen a historic example of a woman's leather coat from the Victorian Age or prior. If women wore leather outerwear prior to the twentieth century it would have been an exceptional thing, and not as common as TV and film would have you believe.
DeleteI am still waiting for your new story about Maxi Coates! When will we be able to read it?
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