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Description: | Black leather coat, lined black acetate, with black flat plastic buttons.
Straight cut, below knee length, single breasted. LArge turndown collar and revers. Six buttons. Buttons originally had a trim of silver metal which the owner removed. Two pockets at front and hlaf belt at back. Black acetate lining was put in in 1976 because original was worn out.
Bought in 1972 for donor, then aged 16, by her mother, Mrs Joan Levitt, in Polly of Piccadilly, Manchester. It cost £25, reduced from £40. Even at "25 considered very expensive. Donor's grandmother, who died in 1970, had left a fur coat, which had been sold and the proceeds bought a beaver lamb coat for Mrs Levitt and this leather coat for donor. She chose it because it was the longest coat in the shop and, being fashion conscious, wanted a 'midi' coat. the coat fitted her image exactly at the time. She wore it with the collar turned up and with very long black boots, black leather handbag and black gloves. the coat withstodd much hard treatment and after many years wear it was discarded for a flared, grey flannel coat with a hood in January 1976.
Material: leather
Material: acetate
Black leather coat, lined black acetate, with black flat plastic buttons. | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.17356 | Go to resource |
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