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Jan. 2nd, 2003 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpI have, for as long as I can remember, wanted a pea coat. I love them. I think that dark navy pea coats are quite possibly the best kind of coats ever. I would see people wearing them, or see them at their houses, and I would covet them.
I'm not usually a coveter. But they are so great, and I can't usually get myself to buy a coat. I mean, that can be a pricey purchase, and I'd usually rather spend the money on other things.
Last weekend, Jennifer and I went to Old Navy to spend her gift card, and I was going to spend a little bit of holiday money. I picked out a pair of pants. And then, on a whim, I tried on this coat, which was neat but didn't look all that good on me. It was on killer sale, though.
And then Jen said, "I think you should go try on the pea coats instead." And she pulled sizes off the rack and gave expert opinions, and when I wasn't sure, she said I really needed to buy the coat. She did this by telling me over and over how good I looked in it, with this great little glint in her beautiful eyes.
And I spent the money. And I bought the coveted dark navy pea coat. AND I /LOVE/ IT.
I'm not usually a coveter. But they are so great, and I can't usually get myself to buy a coat. I mean, that can be a pricey purchase, and I'd usually rather spend the money on other things.
Last weekend, Jennifer and I went to Old Navy to spend her gift card, and I was going to spend a little bit of holiday money. I picked out a pair of pants. And then, on a whim, I tried on this coat, which was neat but didn't look all that good on me. It was on killer sale, though.
And then Jen said, "I think you should go try on the pea coats instead." And she pulled sizes off the rack and gave expert opinions, and when I wasn't sure, she said I really needed to buy the coat. She did this by telling me over and over how good I looked in it, with this great little glint in her beautiful eyes.
And I spent the money. And I bought the coveted dark navy pea coat. AND I /LOVE/ IT.
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Peas Coat
Date: 2003-01-02 02:54 pm (UTC)I really like the ones at Old Navy, too! I saw them when they first came out and thought I'd see 1 out of 4 people wearing them from then on - but I haven't! In fact, you're probably the first person I "know" who has one!
I'd love to wear a pea coat myself...then it'd be a PeasCoat...but I have to admit that it looks like I'm wearing a pup tent!
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Date: 2003-01-03 05:38 am (UTC)And I think you definitely need a Peas Coat. That would be too funny. When I got mine, I worried that I would look like a sausage. I used to have this all-conditions gore-tex jacket from LL Bean and when I would button it, I totally looked like I was stuffed into a sausage. Ewww!
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Date: 2003-01-10 11:25 am (UTC)- the lj user formerly known as Crena
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Date: 2003-01-02 03:09 pm (UTC)It doesn't look old at all, either.
I love my peacoat!
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Date: 2003-01-03 05:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-03 09:06 am (UTC)I grabbed this awesome silver belt buckle with the "dolphins" and sub name on it (goes with those adjustable fabric belts)...one of my dad's "dolphin" pins (I always want to secretly put them on the inside of my coat, but am afraid the pin will fall off), and a couple of his zippo lighters that have his name and the sub he was on..they are super~cool looking..I just have to get fluid and flint for them.
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Date: 2003-01-03 12:57 pm (UTC)I should root through everything and find one of his olive coats. That would totally rock.
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Date: 2003-01-02 03:38 pm (UTC)I have one that I never wear.
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Date: 2003-01-02 04:19 pm (UTC)I have a black one that I love love love! ($30 on kiddie-rack clearance at Target is almost as good as Marshmallow Fluff.) I should take a picture of it sometime, it's dressed up with a silver-and-enamel dragonfly pin. (:
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Date: 2003-01-03 05:41 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-01-03 07:21 am (UTC)I am so smart!
Sailors who have to endure pea-soup weather often don their pea coats but the coat's name isn't derived from the weather. The heavy topcoat worn in cold, miserable weather by seafaring men was once tailored from pilot cloth.. a heavy, course, stout kind of twilled blue cloth with the nap on one side. The cloth was sometimes called P-cloth for the initial letter of "pilot" and the garment made from it was called a p-jacket.. later, a pea coat. The term has been used since 1723 to denote coats made from that cloth.
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Date: 2003-01-02 07:23 pm (UTC)She has two arms, doesn't she? Heh. Just kidding.
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Date: 2003-01-03 09:09 am (UTC)they always sew them on too tight at the dry cleaners, when I get them fixed
grrrr
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Date: 2003-01-03 05:41 am (UTC)no subject
Solution? Take off pea coat, fold it so satiny lining is face up, and sleep on that. In case you ever feel like a nap while in your coat.
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Date: 2003-01-03 01:01 pm (UTC)(It's about 50 degrees in my office. I empathize.)
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Date: 2003-01-02 07:08 pm (UTC)You want me now, don't you?no subject
Date: 2003-01-02 08:32 pm (UTC)And as my brother says, we all know that girl twins have to dyke it out at least once.no subject
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Date: 2003-01-02 08:36 pm (UTC)Yay!
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Date: 2003-01-03 05:42 am (UTC)But in reality, it was on sale for $50, so it wasn't even much of a splurge. I'm just cheap!
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Date: 2003-01-03 07:11 am (UTC)<3
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Date: 2003-01-03 07:16 am (UTC)Why <b>do</b> they call them pea coats?
Date: 2003-01-03 08:13 am (UTC)-Crena
Re: Why <b>do</b> they call them pea coats?
Date: 2003-01-03 08:15 am (UTC)Thank you, drive thru.
MEEP BLEEP!!!
Re: Why <b>do</b> they call them pea coats?
you're making me angry. ;)
- the lj user formerly known as Crena
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Date: 2003-01-10 01:35 pm (UTC)