Matching Champagne Wool Coats with Cognac Leather & Wide Collars
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100% Long Champagne Wool Coat jacket with cognac honey leather cuffs buttons and extra wide collar, matching mom, handmade, couture, black suede over knee boot

This year, Gigi and I are wear­ing the new coats I have avail­able for sale in my  A N A G R A S S I A  shop. (Read about last year’s annu­al “AUNTIE & ME” match­ing wool cash­mere coats here.) The coats are made from 100% cham­pagne wool and cognac leather. My coat (the adult style) cuffs are made from gen­uine cognac leather and Gigi’s (kid’s) cuffs are made with beige (100%) wool. Both coats are...

Burdastyle Charcoal Wool and Navy Leather Winter Coat
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Charcoal Wool and navy leather 1 2011 126 Burdastyle sewing pattern winter coat

 Last Octo­ber, I made a navy cash­mere and leather coat for one of my dear­est friends. I would not call it a suc­cess. Since this first coat did not turn out as I had hoped, I sim­ply had to design a new ver­sion of the win­ter coat! The new coat was first going to be an orig­i­nal and mod­ern twist on a par­tic­u­lar vin­tage style. (I’m being vague in my descrip­tion because...

The (Unsuccessful) Navy Leather & Cashmere Notre Dame Inspired Winter Coat for “Croc”
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Navy Cashmere leather long collared winter coat anagrassia quilted lining

Thank you Tess & Gigi for taking these photos on our walk last week. Photography by Anastassia I always knew “Croc” would remain one of my best friends after col­lege. She used to share her crois­sant ends with me at Star­bucks dur­ing our fresh­man year at Notre Dame. Yes, you heard me right — “crois­sant ends.” Almost every Tues­day and Thurs­day before our His­to­ry class togeth­er, we used to grab Star­bucks cof­fee...

Suspenders: History and Fixing My Dad’s
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It’s shock­ing to think that some­thing which seems so basic as sus­penders, could be traced back to a designer/inventor! Sus­penders were first invent­ed by Albert Thurston in the ear­ly 19th cen­tu­ry in Hay­mar­ket, Lon­don. Because the sus­penders  allowed men to wear high-rise dress pants while remain­ing hid­den under a jack­et (almost like an under­gar­ment piece),  they  grew in pop­u­lar­i­ty among the upper­class and roy­als and even­tu­al­ly grew into a house hold name....