Vintage original late 1970s Byzantine Blue Real Coney rabbit fur coat jacket unique beautiful colour
"Don't you wonder sometimes
About sound and vision?"
I do. Each vintage garment is an artefact to be explored and research, and place in historical context of the life and times of the piece, and my imagination makes me wonder the sounds they heard and the sights they saw, and their loves and experiences. I especially gravitate to pieces that are unusual, even unique. This is the only vintage rabbit coat I have ever seen in blue, I've seen even green, plus burgundy, dusky pinks, orange, white grey black brown etc but never a blue one. So this is special. A rare vision indeed.
It is around a UK size 10 perhaps small 12, though I am a size UK 8 and fine on me too.
Rabbit, or as it was known then, coney fur, was a popular fur of the time as rabbit is of course a by product of rabbit meat. Which at that time, was in every supermarket. Can't beat a delicious rabbit stew and as the Chaz and Dave song went 'got more rabbit than Sainsburys', as it is also a cockney term for talking too much! So coney was a relatively reasonably priced fur , and millions of women had them in the UK alone. Many still in use of course. In winter it seems every other girl around Brick Lane vintage shops and Spitafields wears a 1970s one! But never, in blue.
I'd date this late 1970s, so my song for the 'Spirit of the Age' and garment, is David Bowie's 'Sound and Vision'
"Blue, blue, electric blue
That's the colour of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue
Pale blinds drawn all day..."
Well she's not quite electric blue but she does come up a lot stronger a blue in the sun or strong night lights, she appears much brighter than her duskier blue . Certainly bright enough blue to cheer up those with the blues....
She'd have known the sound of Bowie of course this coat in her heyday, and given her unique look was probably owned by a fashionista well into his music and image.
It would also of course have looked great with baby blue disco wear, blue jeans or flared trousers, or indeed Bowie Oxford bags. Or blue jeans tucked into boots Abba style. Co-ordinated blue denim was al the rage at the time, and not every girl wanted a a masculine denim jacket. So this teamed with denim jeans fitted waistcoat blue scarf & high blue suede boots for eg would have been fab; so why not again now given all that look is back in style?