Nifty leather trenchcoat worn by Robert Taylor

[Fletch]

Seems like an unusual thing for a Hollywood star to wear in (what I think is) the late '30s. It's also not cut like most long leathers - pretty much an exact copy of a trench, except for the straight flapped pockets.

Since leather coats are so evocative of Mittel Europa, and since Taylor played a German in a 1938 film called Three Comrades, perhaps this is a production still from that film. I don't recall seeing the coat in the film, but his character was a mechanic and chauffeur, so it would have been apropos.

I own a cheapo '70s version of this, made of floppy cocoa-brown lambskin, but this thing looks like it was bulletproof and soft. You can practically feel the hand of the hide. What a great coat.

(Thanks to Amy Jeanne for the loan of the pic.)

 

[Smithy]

Might be just me, but I can't get past the stereotypical Gestapo idea with black leather coats :eusa_doh:

 

[Edward]

A black leather trench coat certainly does have a certain dark, soem would say almost evil, connotation to it. Naturally, that's what makes it so glamorous to many.

 

[Fletch]

Why assume it was black?

What does a brown leather trenchcoat make you think of? The Sewer Police?

 

[Smithy]

What does a brown leather trenchcoat make you think of? The Sewer Police?

Lord Flasheart.

Why assume it was black?

The black one probably reminds me of the Gestapo because of all the 'Allo 'Allo episodes they showed on telly in my impressionable youth.

 

[Feraud]

Darn that deceptive black and white film!

Van Heflin wears a leather trench in the '42 film Grand Central Murder.

 

[Fletch]

What does a brown leather trenchcoat make you think of?

Lord Flasheart.

From Blackadder? Played by the incomparable Rik "Rick" Mayall?

(Feraud, just try to imagine this coat in brown.)

According to Wikipedia, "Lord Flashheart is boisterous, arrogant and appears very attractive to all the women he comes in contact with. He is extremely popular amongst his peers, and immediately becomes the centre of attention whenever he enters a room."

Hmmmm. I think I'm gonna place a custom order soon.

 

[Smithy]

From Blackadder? Played by the incomparable Rik "Rick" Mayall?

Hmmmm. I think I'm gonna place a custom order soon.

But of course, the one and only!

Flash has got style...WOOOOF!!

 

[Fletch]

Try that with some of the Lounge Ladies and you'd soon lose your "W", I imagine...

 

[Tomasso]

The Hoffmeister is partial to the look as well.

 

[Fletch]

o O ( Zat's because he iss zo big in zee Vaterland!!!eins!! )

 

[Sierra Charriba]

Hello
As red army reenactor, here I'm wearing a soviet leather coat from www.frontofrussia.com. Vintage and second hand, but really serviceable. A good option.

 

[Black Prince]

Seems like an unusual thing for a Hollywood star to wear in (what I think is) the late '30s. It's also not cut like most long leathers - pretty much an exact copy of a trench, except for the straight flapped pockets.

It looks a little like a coat of mine: a black leather version of a classic Burberry trench.