I totally forgot if I even mentioned this before, but a while back I had a thrifting day where I scored more than quasi-steampunk boots. Namely, I scored the Crazy Coat. It is long and green, with gold embroidery bits and sleeves that are somehow half pink (I don’t even know). I could not love it more.

Just now, I found a card in the pocket. It’s two layers of hand-pressed paper folded in half like a dance card, and is an invitation for the coat’s previous owner, Ms. [Redacted], to attend a private viewing of Raphael’s La Fornarina, which was on display there in 2004.

It’s always nice to have such a sharp look into a garment’s past, even though it only highlighted how I am a huge event planning nerd nerd, in that it has her dinner table noted on it, which meant that it was a dinner event; my first thought was not, “Oh, what a poignant glimpse into the history of this garment!” but instead, “I wonder how many 10-tops you can even FIT in the Frick.”