Ebook: The coat route: craft, luxury, & obsession on the trail of a $50,000 coat

Introduction -- The roots -- The fleece -- The lining -- The merchant -- The cloth -- The buttons -- The gold trimmings -- The tailor -- The coat -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes.;"When journalist Meg Lukens Noonan learned of an unthinkably expensive, entirely handcrafted overcoat that a fourth-generation tailor had made for one of his longtime clients, she set off on an adventure to understand its provenance, and from that impulse unspooled rich and colorful stories about its components, the centuries-old bespoke industry and its traditions, and the master craftsmen whose trade is an art form"--Dust jacket flap.