"She drooled over the Schiaparelli-style surrealist getups and gigantic fur stole Marlene Dietrich (one of her favorites, a "stone cold fox," she says) wears. We talked about how Anna May Wong is the only woman who can play opposite Dietrich. The joy of marriage is that when your friends leave your place, you get to be absolutely insufferable together."
"Those old military jackets spawned the civilian safari jacket, a classic menswear shape which was the uniform of Western aristocrats running around the African savanna in the Interwar period. (Not a great connotation, but the jackets look good.) In it's most rugged form, it's what Hemingway would wear on real big-game hunts. In its more common form, it's a version of a country suit jacket suited to warmer climates with patch pockets-with a scalloped flap and action slit pockets"
A couple smokes and watches Shanghai Express after a Super Bowl party. The wife admires Marlene Dietrich's Schiaparelli-style outfits and a gigantic fur stole, calling Dietrich a 'stone cold fox.' They note Anna May Wong's ability to play opposite Dietrich. The narrator focuses on Clive Brook's British military officer jacket and traces the garment's evolution into the safari jacket favored by interwar Western aristocrats and later leisure wear. The narrator longs for such a jacket but resists its colonial associations. The narrator acquires a lightly-decorated WWII British jacket and plans to wear it with jeans and boots, inspired by Yves Saint Laurent and Roger Moore.
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