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Thou billowest behind me like the coat of an Immortal
(like the ones on Highlander: the Series)
but where oh where is concealed the blade of fine Toledo steel?
I have stowed it in my Immortal Orifice.
Now I, too, want a trench coat.
The Coats I Have:
- A fine-grained tailored leather jacket, bought in Florence. Best coat ever. I can't wear anything bulky under it though, which means I can be stylish and cold or look like a stuffed (but warm) sausage.
- A big billowy black wool coat with a hood and half-sleeves: kind of a cross between a cape and a coat. I'm too short for this coat, but I love it anyway.
- A fleece-lined red sports jacket. Not very attractive, since it doesn't cover my bum, but nice to have.
- Long black down-filled coat. I love this coat, and could almost wish Dutch winters were colder. Wearing this is like walking around in a very soft, warm sleeping bag.
The Coats I Want:
oracne's trench coat, obviously.
- A Matrix-style long tailored coat, vaguely Japanese-looking, red. Again, I'm too short for coats like this, but what the hell, I want one anyway.
- An 18th-century velvet morning coat. With silver buttons.
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Date: 2003-09-30 07:16 am (UTC)I like your coats, and have fairly similar coat lust. H&M has a funky, vaguely 18th/19th century looking velvet jacket in the current collection, BTW. I have the black version and am lusting after the red one. I've seen several women wearing them on the street (even though it's not that warm, 'cause it's not wind-tight) and each and every one looked absolutely gorgeous. :)
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Date: 2003-09-30 07:23 am (UTC)It does? It DOES? /spins around like a top/
There's a crinkly bunched-up short Made in India one (which looks cooler than it sounds) with a zipper, d'you mean that one? Or is it long?
I've tried on the short one, but even size 44 didn't fit right. (I am normally a size 40, but not in India, it seems...)
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Date: 2003-09-30 07:29 am (UTC)I wore it to the thai restaurant last night, with mikz and sarahh & science_vixen & mikz's mum. Which is how I came to eat thai last night. I'll stop rambling now. :)
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Date: 2003-09-30 07:38 am (UTC)If I find it in an even bigger size I may yet buy one; I liked it a lot, but with the size 44 I got the 'nice, but my arms don't normally stick out this way and oh, I can't really breathe either' problem you describe.
Also: mm. Thai food. :-)
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Date: 2003-09-30 08:05 am (UTC)You could ask them to check in the computer which sizes it comes in, they might even be able to tell you which store still has them. LOL at your description of the fit, BTW.
Thai food is good, thai food with good company is really good, said company only being here temporarily and going back to the States soon sucks rocks.
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Date: 2003-09-30 09:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-30 09:28 am (UTC)I friended you on the strength of Arlie's Maple (http://www.livejournal.com/users/mishalak/29342.html) and your 'the U.S.S. Alcibiades' post, which I thought was hilarious, and because I like fannish people of all persuasions.
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Date: 2003-09-30 10:36 am (UTC)And you probably subconsciously knew that I did from my personality or something like that.
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Date: 2003-09-30 09:01 am (UTC)Mishalak's Coat Collection:
Boy I'm sort of clothes horse, aren't I? I like your idea of a red Matrix-style long tailored coat. I think I want one too, even though men are only supposed to wear brown, grey, or black coats or something like that. I love red, especially a dark and rich sort of shade like cranberries or wine.
I suspect I have so many coats in part because winter in Colorado is long and unpredictable. One day I need something right warm and the next I need to dress in layers for when the sun comes out and the snow melts. I also want a big furry coat to go with a furry hat so I can walk around in the dead of winter looking veery Russian.
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Date: 2003-09-30 09:21 am (UTC)I think I'd like to abscond with all of them except possibly the ski jacket, but they probably look better on you. :-)
And yes, I think men should be able to wear colours if they want (or anything else they want, really), esp. jewel tones: ruby red, emerald green, sapphire blue. Yum.
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Date: 2003-09-30 10:45 am (UTC)I'll try to bring some to Europe if I win TAFF for you to try on. <grin>