One of my favorite things about going up to New York is checking out what the women are wearing. It’s like sport for me. I live vicariously through their carefully crafted fashion choices.
The dominant trend I picked up on during this most recent trip was, of all things, the Trench Coat.
The Trench Coat Trend is one of those classic, recycled fashion stories you read about every other season in Glamour or Marie Claire or Elle that rarely translates to the street. This particular editorial-sanctioned look is right up there with Safari Redux or The New Military Moment or Skirting the Issue (a fashion story about how skirts are making a comeback!!!!! which is a little like saying, it’s the season of the cinnamon roll, gals!!!! or Kleenex!!!!). I digress.
But this interpretation of the Trench Coat Trend has been appropriated by chic women all over New York, and it made me wonder, why?
Perhaps the chic/polished looks of Mad Men are having some influence because the trench coats I saw were all very tailored and structured and femme fatale and short, like what Betty Draper or Joan Harris might wear if they were secret agents.
I realize some of you may be reading this and thinking, “Um, Jessie? The trench coat went out with chunky beads and Manolos! You’ve been shopping at Walmart too long, poor dear.” And it’s true, for a woman now forced to take her fashion cues from Woolrich, the Trench Coat Trend was a sight for sore eyes.
Though I probably won’t buy one since the only place I have to wear it is down to the Hen Hut.
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