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I'd look for a well-made cashmere coat, in either black or camel with a classic cut and perfect fit. Take care of it and wear it forever. In the meantime, find a great vintage brooch at an estate sale or antique shop (I love Eisenberg) and wear it on the coat or anytime you want to remember your grandmother.
This!!!
Love it. Especially with the brooch. This is a look one of my more fashionable friends has been sporting for several years now. She gets a TON of compliments on her brooch collection.
Okay, not getting into the politics of fur from dead animals or whether fur's appropriate for a college student (of any age), I don't like the coat. Why? It looks like a long bathrobe made out of fake fur. It's not a fun or stylish coat and does nothing for me...the model wearing the spike heels and the pout looks cheap and so does the coat.
I agree. Everyone will have their own personal taste, but at the end of the day, high fashion is still high fashion. It's one thing to say "I don't like this" but it's another thing to say that it isn't fashionable. So the idea that wearing fur is tacky or "declasse" is pretty much false. Full length coats are usually seen as over the top, but there's nothing pretentious about wearing smaller items like a jacket. I still wouldn't suggest anyone wear that to school, though.
Yeah I know! I can see objectively fur is clearly not popular with the masses but there is something so whimsical about a full length fur, atleast to me. It would look absurd the more I think about it being worn anywhere near a college campus. But to a real nice formal event? Heck yea! I think this one is more stylish and 'modern'-ofcourse I would NEVER spend this much but would get a FAUX fur coat in this style.
Lovely fur coat but it is too expensive & long enough for a teenage girl. Instead of spending huge amount on it, give a look on other less priced coats too. May be your decision would change...
Love it. Especially with the brooch. This is a look one of my more fashionable friends has been sporting for several years now. She gets a TON of compliments on her brooch collection.
I love brooches and wearing a little sparkle on a cardigan.
I used to work in an office building near a Marshall's, which was a block away from an upscale mall in California. I'd browse around on my lunch hour. One day I saw this gorgeous coat, a very long camel cashmere coat with a fox collar and cuffs. There was just one, it was completely out of place among the ordinary black wools, and it was my size. It was also like $700 marked down from whatever. I went back and visited that coat several times. It wanted to come home with me, I know it.
which was a block away from an upscale mall in California. I'd browse around on my lunch hour. ..... a very long camel cashmere coat with a fox collar and cuffs.
Fashion Island? South Coast Plaza?
The coat. If that is an example of your taste in clothes I totally need to raid your closet!
Yes, South Coast. I was always in the Marshall's or Nordstrom Rack. My taste and what I can afford diverge. Currently I own a winter white down coat from Lands End. Not so schmancy.
I would look at the lady with the brooch with admiration. It is the details that make a difference, not the "look-at-me-I-can-buy-expensive-stuff" apparel.
Some ladies wear scarves, brooches, small unique things that not everyone can buy. Many were bought at secondhand stores, thus the fun is in something being exclusive for what it is, not for how much it costs.
Anybody with money can buy a fur coat. But the brooch grandma passed on, or the one that was sold at the exclusive boutique (3 pieces only), and is not ostentatious yet ridiculously beautiful, is in another league. It is small, but if you have an eye for fashion, heck yeah you will see it.
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She gets a TON of compliments on her brooch collection.
My taste and what I can afford diverge. Currently I own a winter white down coat from Lands End. Not so schmancy. 
It is small, but if you have an eye for fashion, heck yeah you will see it.
