Pea coats for winter at SF Design
Wow, where does the time go? More importantly, where does it come from? By which I mean, where can I get more?
As you can see, I haven’t been around all that much lately. Believe me, it’s not for lack of wanting. RL (work in particular, as I may have mentioned) has been kinda crazy, and of course it’s the holiday season, and there’s only so much time to go around…never quite enough, it seems. I do have some good stuff I want to share with you, though–some coats and scarves, festive party attire, stuff like that–and I’m hoping to get in at least a small handful of posts between now and the end of the year. They may be short and sweet, but hopefully you’ll still find something worth shopping for.
It will most likely come as no surprise to you when I observe that I’m a big fan of pea coats. I also like other similarly styled coats, but I’m partial to the classic pea coat—my current RL coat of choice for winter is a decidedly non-traditional forest-green pea coat with bronze buttons. swaffette Firefly’s new Pea Coat for men has traditional, classic styling going for it in spades. The set includes: jacket-layer coat; sculpted collar, sleeve cuffs and epaulet-style shoulder pieces; flexi coat bottom; and sculpted hat. The fabric texture is dark charcoal in color, or perhaps it’s blue so dark it looks black. The cuffs, shoulder pieces and flexi bottom give the coat loose, comfortable lines rather than a skin-tight fit. You might expect that a garment so dark in color would be light on detail, but here the fabric has a clearly visible, nubby weave, and you don’t have to look too closely to notice details like big, shiny buttons and leather trim at the pockets and hem.
Priced at L$350 for the full set as shown, which includes Romany pants with sculpted cuffs and a grey V-neck sweater, which can be worn tucked or untucked. You can also buy just the coat, scarf and hat for L$250. Available at SF Design (Penryn 69, 96, 36). Look around for the freebie hair in five colors for wear with hats. (Note: I’m not wearing this freebie style here; I chose a close-cropped style, “Andy” from MADesigns, and fudged the size and placement of the hat just a bit instead.) Look around just a little more for swaffette’s freebie holiday sweater!
I’m also wearing the newish Trashville Boots by Eponymous Trenchmouth. Epo’s shoe designs are always gracefully shaped and often elaborately textured, but these boots strike me as simpler, more elemental than some of his other designs. The leather texture is clean and looks supple, and the shape is smartly defined by the smooth vamp and stack heel. Shiny metal accents (a buckle on one style, a metal ring on the other) catch the eye, and side pull tabs make them easy to pull on. Although they aren’t really detailed for it, I’ve worn them as ankle boots here—the pants’ sculptie cuffs cover any unfinished edges left by leaving off the boot tops. Of course they also look great when worn whole, as Epo intended.
Choose from Engineer and Harness styles, in Black or Brown, L$350 a pair. Available at JCS Shoes (La Fortuna 1 42, 42, 23).
Thanks so much for the post Ryan who’s your friend in the top hat ?
Love the kmadd hair and the trenchmouth boots – 2 great designers.
I wish you and your readers happy holidays and all the best in 2010
Can the coat be worn without the scarf or are those linked together ? Also, the flexi prim attachment, is that done in the hip area or does it come out in the middle of yur back ? (something I hate)
I should have credited the snowman! He is by Summer Seale. You can find Summer’s shop in her Picks.
The coat can indeed be worn without the scarf (some of the pictures show this, but you have to click through on the links to see them), although the scarf cannot be worn without the coat. As for the flexi attachment, it does “connect” higher up on the body rather than at the hips. I’m not usually a big fan of this technique either, as it tends not to look terribly realistic and can really play havoc with fabric textures and patterns. However, it works here, partly I think because of the fabric’s dark color, which hides the edges more effectively. Also, and I think more importantly, it gives the pea coat the proper straight-sided silhouette, which otherwise it would not have.
Thanks for the info ! If you say the high attachment point works, I may get it after all then.
I’d definitely keep in mind your own experience with other coats that used this technique, and why and how much you didn’t like them. But I do think this one has those two factors (dark color and desired silhouette) working in its favor, and here I think the “high on the side connection” really works.
Good look there Ryan, the short hair suits you (and is unusual for you I think in that most of your hair so far has been of the longer variety).
I might give this outfit a try; I’m not usually a hat sort of person but this one might work – I especially like the scarf combination.
I’m currently wearing a warm duffle-coat and an icelandic-style knitted woollen hat with ties that hang down either side, woollen mittens and big boots for the sim I frequent, which is currently snow-bound
And in case I don’t get to do this before the day itself, Merry Christmas to Ryan and to you all.
Leo – Hmm, I guess I have been wearing longer hair recently, at least for the most part. I wonder if it’s cyclical?
Thanks for the holiday wishes! Best wishes right back at you.