Mushroom hood?

January 7, 2018 2:30 PM

I'm trying to identify a coat I saw on the street in Portland. It was gray wool with a large, very tactile herringbone pattern, cut in a loose a-line. The most striking thing about it was the hood lining, which was red felted wool with raised white nubs in it -- like an Amanita muscaria mushroom.

It was such a charming and yet polished and practical coat -- I wish I'd asked the woman wearing it where she'd got it! I have a feeling it was bought on Etsy or in some fancy local boutique, but the search terms are failing me. Maybe it's a more mainstream item than I think, and someone here has seen it?

posted by thesmallmachine to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (3 answers total)

Maybe a lead on the hood lining? Punti amanita Code: W73-010 Boiled Wool in a fly amanita design with sculptural white dots on a red base and a continuous about 1,5 cm wide line in the same colour as the dots along the selvedge
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:04 PM on January 7, 2018 [9 favorites]

There’s a good possibility she put in the lining herself. If you can find the coat (or something similar) you or a tailor can add a hood lining in the fabric MonkeyToes suggested.

I wish I had seen this coat by I kinda want one too.
posted by ananci at 4:33 PM on January 7, 2018 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: Amazing -- that's got to be the same material as the lining! Given that, I wonder if the whole coat was custom. Either way, now that I have this lead, I could recreate the crucial part of it.
posted by thesmallmachine at 7:46 AM on January 8, 2018