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Muffy Aldrich
Muffy Aldrich, Editor of Salt Water New England: The Thing Before Preppy, since 2010. And a 12th Generation New Englander.
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Finally !! Someone who has more coats and jackets than me !
ReplyDeleteTwo of our closets look like your rolling rack: Its time for some serious decision making to what to keep and what to donate.
ReplyDeleteThis would be my dream. In fact, your whole closet is my dream. #Closet goals
ReplyDeleteWhen you buy classic styles & live in a winter climate zone -- the collection grows & grows. And you need coats for the variance of winter temps!
ReplyDeleteI am probably missing something, but my wife and I used to pile coats and wraps on the double bed in the extra bedroom in our apartment when we had pre-Christmas open houses for friends and colleagues. Not terribly stylish, but needs must. Once we purchased our first house a few years later and a few blocks away, an almost 100-year-old craftsman, we suddenly had an abundance of closet space in three areas just off the entry hall. Our current suburban nightmare, built in the mid-8os, again suffers a lack of usable closet space in the entryway, but we no longer entertain much, and certainly not during the holiday season, so it has not been an issue.
ReplyDeleteKind Regards and Compliments of the Season,
Heinz-Ulrich
Ah, yes... the coats piled up in the spare bedroom... that was the way in my family too! I remember departing from a party at my Aunt's house in West Hartford one Christmas and finding a cousin's baby asleep under my topcoat!
DeleteThat makes me feel a bit better. I tend to be a hoarder because so many worthwhile things are no longer made or are no longer made well or are endangered by the tendencies of our decadent epoch, and I also insist on being physically active in all weather conditions and appropriately dressed for any occasion within reason. I have a great many coats and jackets, and I use them all.
ReplyDeleteHow do you square the proliferation of jackets with the value of thrift?
ReplyDeleteBecause nobody ever put a numerical value on thrift. If an item is still used then a "proliferaton" is OK.
DeleteGotta agree with K here. In addition to thrift, other key Yankee and WASP value I learned growing up were simplicity and stoicism. Mr. Reichardt's interpretation of thrift holds up to neither.
DeleteOne can never have too many topcoats!
ReplyDeleteOn our street in the Midwest, all the houses were built around 1929 through 1939. All two story with most having one meager closet per upstairs bedroom and very few had a hall closet on the first floor. Few had a first floor bath or powder room. A few Decembers ago, the book club got together up the street at the usual house after they had had a bit of remodeling done. They had squeezed in a tiny half bath, eating up some of the kitchen in the process but the real star was a coat closet beside the stairs to the second floor. It was all of about 18 inches wide but we all gathered around and just marveled over it!
ReplyDeleteAnd at our house, we had an 18 month remodel, complete with us having to move to an apartment while all electrical, wiring and plumbing were brought up to code. We did have a coat closet but we turned an odd space facing the back yard....a double upper cabinet with just air under it....into yes, a second coat closet. And of course the two of us have it crammed with outerwear, but a good half of that is vests.