A suitable replacement

No oriental housejackets. No silver cuff. No brown suede hobo bag.

But a coat, a glorious grey wool coat!
With a purple lining! On sale!

This is the kind of coat I dreamed of as a little girl. My mom thinks it looks like a Russian military coat, but those pleats, that buckle ... I dream of braided British girls running around the snowy courtyard of their boarding school.