Coatiwednesdi
Sep. 13th, 2012 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceWhen I was briefly a student at St Andrews in the '70s, fashion and practicality both dictated ex-military greatcoats for male warmth in winter. I really liked mine, and might've worn it in the summer too. Might've done.
Later, I had a WW1 leather overcoat: worn soft as butter and tissue-tender. I really liked that too.
Half my new friends here in California - actually, possibly more than half - are now or have for ever been in the SCA, and like to dress up in clothes of other times. I made it very clear to Karen that I Do Not Do Dressing-Up.
Then we got married. In a Victorian house. In Victorian dress. I loved my clothes, and still do. And made it very clear to Karen that this was a one-off, that I Still Did Not Do Dressing-Up.
Ahem. Apparently, even living in the sun here, my greatcoat-fetish has not died.
I am now the rather delighted possessor of one of these. Without lieutenant's stripes; I am unranked. Officially it is a West Point cadet's caped overcoat, but I like to think it also has an air of the US civil war about it, on account of my having just written a story set therein.
Now, how do I make it entirely clear to Karen that I Still Do Not Do Dressing-Up...?
Later, I had a WW1 leather overcoat: worn soft as butter and tissue-tender. I really liked that too.
Half my new friends here in California - actually, possibly more than half - are now or have for ever been in the SCA, and like to dress up in clothes of other times. I made it very clear to Karen that I Do Not Do Dressing-Up.
Then we got married. In a Victorian house. In Victorian dress. I loved my clothes, and still do. And made it very clear to Karen that this was a one-off, that I Still Did Not Do Dressing-Up.
Ahem. Apparently, even living in the sun here, my greatcoat-fetish has not died.
I am now the rather delighted possessor of one of these. Without lieutenant's stripes; I am unranked. Officially it is a West Point cadet's caped overcoat, but I like to think it also has an air of the US civil war about it, on account of my having just written a story set therein.
Now, how do I make it entirely clear to Karen that I Still Do Not Do Dressing-Up...?