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Blessing Of Animals , S. Eusebio, Rome, 1957. Note the sweet duffle coat.

Polo coat, Long Island, 1937.

Acclaimed director and fugitive pederast Roman P. in an awesome leather jacket. London, 1968.

More polo. F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for the elitist a**hole Tom Buchanan: Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. Sands Point Polo, 1939.

US Army officer's regulation cape, overcoat, jackets & raincoats hanging from clothes rack. 1941.

Student in racoon coat at the Charleston party. Princeton, 1949. Get ready for the flour and paint bombs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-8IRfBdeg

Henri Giraud in a DB overcoat with turnback cuffs and ghillie collar. Africa, 1943.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Arthur Tedder and Bernard Montgomery observing maneuvers, Salisbury, United Kingdom, 1944. Short roll lapel DB overcoat with full belt on DDE, a British Warm on BM and sheepskin flying jacket on AT.

Monty in a sheepskin flying jacket, during push by the 8th Army, 1944.



Bernard Montgomery with beret and British Warm, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, arriving before a crowd of reporters covering the European visit of newly appointed NATO chief, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Polo coat on reporter in the background, 1951.

The Duke's raglan overcoat.

Steve McQueen's leather blouson motorcycle jacket, 1963.

Steve's Harrington jacket.

Herringbone chesterfield worn with pocket handkerchief. Harold Macmillan, 1963

Adolphe Menjou at the opening of Oak Ridge Atomic Energy Center, 1949.

Ted Kennedy campaigning, 1960.