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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Romaine Vole in Witness for the Prosecution








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  1. I love Romaine's costume. The play is set in 1920s England. Did women wear black leather coats like that back then?

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    1. Hi 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.

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  2. I am still waiting for your new story about Maxi Coates! When will we be able to read it?

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