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[livejournal.com profile] oracne has posted a funny poem titled Ode To My Trench Coat. My favorite stanza:

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:
  • [livejournal.com profile] 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)
From: [identity profile] halimede.livejournal.com
Oracne did a similar ode to her wheely tote a while back. Very cool. :)

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)
From: [identity profile] marycrawford.livejournal.com
H&M has a funky, vaguely 18th/19th century looking velvet jacket in the current collection, BTW.

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)
From: [identity profile] halimede.livejournal.com
Dunno if it's made in India, but yeah, I think that's the one. It's a short jacket and it has a row of buttons on the cuffs. I had to get a size bigger than usual too --I think it's the cut, the armscye is such that if you get the right size, it looks good but you just can't move (or breathe). Luckily one size up works for me.

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)
From: [identity profile] marycrawford.livejournal.com
Well, what do you know. That's a pretty funny coincidence (or evidence that great minds think alike?), given that I only go clothes shopping when I absolutely have to. Definitely the same coat, and I did try on the red one.

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)
From: [identity profile] halimede.livejournal.com
I'm continually surprised how much we like the same kind of thing, from Jeremy Brett to Labyrinth, etc. So, probably a Great Minds Think Alike thing. :)

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)
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From: [identity profile] mishalak.livejournal.com
Must be why she friended me as well.. I too like Jeremy Brett (greatest Sherlock ever!) and Labyrinth. (I'd love to have an outfit like David Bowie as Jerod.)

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Date: 2003-09-30 09:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marycrawford.livejournal.com
Hee! Actually I had no idea you liked either, but that's great. Certainly I was tempted to add Jareth's jacket to the list of coats. :-)

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)
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From: [identity profile] mishalak.livejournal.com
Oh wow, it is so cool that people like Arlie's Maple. I'm going to have to write more about him. I'm fairly sure he lives somewhere halfway between the Denver I live in and the one where vampires and refuge Russian gods have come to settle in. I shall have to be careful if I ever find myself turning down 2nd Avenue and see him or one of this compatriots.

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)
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From: [identity profile] mishalak.livejournal.com
Ooo I love talking about couture!

Mishalak's Coat Collection:

  • A stylish black Kenneth Cole leather jacket, short.

  • A beige microfiber hiking jacket/windbreaker.

  • A fitted motorcycle jacket, black with those thin red piping that was so popular in the late 80s. I wear it when I want to be a bad boy.

  • An Australian oil cloth coat, somewhat like a trench. It does this wonderful flying out behind me thing when I run.

  • A ultra purple ski jacket with fluorescent orange highlights and interior. It has a simple fantastic number of pockets.

  • A leather 3/4 coat, not bad, I was given it as a gift. Mostly it lives at my parents' house.

  • Two velvet coats in a militaristic sort of 18th century look. One in steely grey and the other in black. Oh look there it is in my user pic.

  • A leather trench coat in sort of a Detroit gangster cut. Not the sort that goes flying out behind one like a cape, but still very cool.

  • Two more leather jackets, one brown and one black, with tight waists and broad shoulders. They called out to me in a moment of weakness at a thrift store.

  • And a classic motorcycle jacket as well. One of those with the gussets and the leather belt. The sort a Harley rider wears.


  • 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)
From: [identity profile] marycrawford.livejournal.com
Am v. impressed by your coat collection!

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)
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From: [identity profile] mishalak.livejournal.com
I actually bought the ski jacket because it looked so much like something a Dr. Who human looking alien would wear. Plus it is very practical, Gore-Tex and all those other super fabrics to keep a body very warm when skiing or otherwise out in v. cold weather.

I'll try to bring some to Europe if I win TAFF for you to try on. <grin>

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