Leather Coat Daydreams

Monday, June 1, 2020

Writer's Block

Greetings to you, the few hundred people who follow this blog. I hope that my sporadic postings here are unique and cause some delight. I write now to vent some frustration at my difficulties writing stories. My muse is still with me: the sleek lady in the long leather coat will ever swish through my imagination, or hold my hand on a rare date night with my wife buttoned up in lambskin. The stress and hectic pace of the past couple years seem to have taken a toll on my creativity. I still have lots of ideas. I've had several partially written stories for my character Maxy Coates in the works for a couple years now. The time and inspiration to get them done is what is lacking. Even with some extra time to write during the recent COVID 19 pandemic I find myself staring at the screen unable to put the thoughts into words, or caught up for hours on end researching minute details on the Internet instead of moving on with the story-writing. Maybe I am just tired. I do spend a lot of time in front of a keyboard at work. Regardless, I endeavor to bring more tales of the lady in the leather coat to life, but life seems to have dulled my ability to render her beauty in words.

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Leather Streetshots 2020

The world has changed since many of us here discovered our taste for women wearing leather coats. Originally pictures came almost entirely from catalogs, newspaper ads, and magazines. As catalogs and newspapers became outdated forms of advertisement we turned to the internet. Advertisement for women's fashion deteriorated into something far less lively in my opinion, often with dull, lanky models serving as human clothes hangers for the outfit they were supposed to be promoting. Candid shots of ladies in their leather coats often provided the best and most lively visuals, but then became extremely scarce as leather mostly went out of fashion. Since 2018 leather trench coats have been ever so slowly creeping back into young women's wardrobes. Many of them are second hand coats because the few *genuine* leather coats on the market are extremely cost prohibitive. Thus, what I have discovered is that some of the best images of the modern lady in the leather coat are social media postings of stylish young women flaunting how they look in their sleek, newly-discovered outerwear. If long leather coats are truly making a comeback in society; this is the face of it.

The most jolting realization is that the leather coats my wife has been wearing since 2004 are now considered vintage! However, if they are in vogue again, I suppose that makes them classic.