Woman seen from behind in a black leather and champagne satin trench coat with a pleated panel and combat boots

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Outerwear · Spring · Autumn · Winter

Leather and satin trench coat with a pleated back panel

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A coat with an exit strategy. A trench in black leather and champagne satin, storm collar up, with a panel of pleats dropping past the hem. Black combat boots under it. It looks better leaving, which suits me. I am always on time and never staying. Belt it. Walk.

A trench coat split between black leather and pale satin, with a cape back, a pleated panel and silver hardware. Worn with combat boots.

A trench coat rebuilt in two materials. Black leather makes the sleeves, the storm collar, the belt and one long front panel; a pale champagne satin fills in the rest, including the cape across the shoulder blades and the lower back. From the waist, a panel of narrow satin pleats drops past the hem. The cuffs buckle, the pocket snaps shut, and a few silver clasps hang where a plain trench would have nothing.

It is belted and worn closed, collar up, so the coat is the outfit. Black leather combat boots with a thick lug sole go under it. This is for the walking part of autumn and the dry days of winter and spring: coffee, errands, an airport.

It looks better leaving. Most good coats do.