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Dog Coat: Excellent Condition
This is my Dog Coat. I guess. :-) The game reminded me to wear this more often. I love the colors of it.
The other day I walked into an Aveda costmetics and skincare shop. I was wearing this coat. The samples that normally cost on the order of six to seven dollars apiece were mine for free. I was impressed at the power of the Coat. Hee.
The other day I walked into an Aveda costmetics and skincare shop. I was wearing this coat. The samples that normally cost on the order of six to seven dollars apiece were mine for free. I was impressed at the power of the Coat. Hee.
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Story of the Coat
We were, at that time, living in Seattle. The warmest thing I had was a rain coat. Ha. It was in the TEENs when we got there, and the tiny tourist town was open when it started to snow.
I was freezing. We shopped. I'd seen these blanket coats around town for anywhere between $100 to $400 a piece, but I couldn't find exactly the one I wanted until we came nearly to the end of town in a little, bitty dump of a place that was selling them at the very bottom of the barrel prices. This one was the only rainbow one I found in that entire town and I bought it because, at that time, it matched my turquoise hair.
The really oddly funny thing is that all these coats are actually made at Pendleton, which is wool shop in Oregon, which used to make all the Indian blankets for the whole of the west and southwest. But in their retail stores, we found them for $250 or so. Yessh.
Re: Story of the Coat
This particular coat wasn't made in Pendleton. It was actually made in the little town near Taos that we stopped at for the balloon festival. The tag in the coat is hand written and hand sewn in. The seams and cut actually look like they were actually handmade, and it's likely that they were made locally. Meep.
What's mildly frightening is that when I look for "blanket coats" on the Web, there are nearly no knee-length blanket coats out there. Plus the waist-length ones are now in the $400 dollar range. Meep.
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