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Anonymous wrote:The only think MT has that I covet is her coats. That lady has some phenomenal coats. When they moved to Florida I was kind of thinking there would be an enormous sale with hundreds of winter coats in every color and length. I will wonder what happened to all those coats!!!

Barron's wife in 40 years: "Oh god dammit, Barron, how many effing coats did your mom need? No, I don't want all of them! I'll take the mink and the Chanel peacoat but I don't want 50 coat dresses! We live in Palm Beach!"

I really think they will all be sold at sothebys or on QVC as one of the final grifts.
I guess it’s possible that she has an assistant putting them all on therealreal under a pseudonym. Honestly if the mar a lago files were in a room full of coats, that would have really really amused me.

There is no way they will be sold on QVC. Maybe replicas like their Jackie Kennedy and Grace Kelly jewelry replica collections.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.

She probably had an italian tailored wool coat in a pastel color from United colors of Benetton bought in Italy or Austria. Or maybe one of the coats made in Yugoslavia - they were top notch quality at the time and especially Slovenia produced excellent woolmark quality knits.
Yes, you’d have just one coat, nothing wrong with that.

I didn't take the comment you were replying to as implying there was anything wrong with her having one coat. I took it to mean she grew up in a communist country and likely wouldn't have had the wardrobe of an American teen. I know her parents were educated and had good jobs but they were still living under communism.

Would she have even had access to United Colors of Benetton? I don't know much about communist Slovenia but I imagine it was like Russia and there was a ban on imported goods.

I was a bit of a Sovietologist decades ago when that was a thing. Yugoslavia had access to more western goods because it wasn’t behind the iron curtain but I’d be surprised if it was the same as living in Austria or Italy. In general communist countries tend to have more closed economies because they are state controlled with different attitudes toward import/export. Anyway, it would be super interesting to have articles about that in particular — it’s sort of crazy we’ve had this First Lady for 5 years and know so little about her background and childhood. If anyone reading this is from Yugoslavia. I’d love to know about fashion options in 1980s Yugoslavia!!!

No idea what Yugoslavia was like BUT fwiw I did some googling. Melania was profiled in GQ like ten years ago.

Melania's mom was a garment worker and all of Melania's clothes were homemade. Melania eventually learned how to sew and made her own clothes as a teenager. One of her classmates remembered she made her own jewelry and accessories which is cute.

They also did have a lot more than most families. They traveled to France and Italy a lot and Melania would buy fashion magazines when she was there. They were also able to afford colorful paint and to send Melania and her sister to design school for hs. All of her classmates from design school said she has always been exceptionally beautiful and always worn a full face of makeup/had a manicure/hair perfectly coiffed/etc even as a teenager.

Unrelated to the topic at hand but Melania claims she has never had botox which literally made me lol.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.

She probably had an italian tailored wool coat in a pastel color from United colors of Benetton bought in Italy or Austria. Or maybe one of the coats made in Yugoslavia - they were top notch quality at the time and especially Slovenia produced excellent woolmark quality knits.
Yes, you’d have just one coat, nothing wrong with that.

I didn't take the comment you were replying to as implying there was anything wrong with her having one coat. I took it to mean she grew up in a communist country and likely wouldn't have had the wardrobe of an American teen. I know her parents were educated and had good jobs but they were still living under communism.

Would she have even had access to United Colors of Benetton? I don't know much about communist Slovenia but I imagine it was like Russia and there was a ban on imported goods.

I was a bit of a Sovietologist decades ago when that was a thing. Yugoslavia had access to more western goods because it wasn’t behind the iron curtain but I’d be surprised if it was the same as living in Austria or Italy. In general communist countries tend to have more closed economies because they are state controlled with different attitudes toward import/export. Anyway, it would be super interesting to have articles about that in particular — it’s sort of crazy we’ve had this First Lady for 5 years and know so little about her background and childhood. If anyone reading this is from Yugoslavia. I’d love to know about fashion options in 1980s Yugoslavia!!!

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She looks so different. I might believe the fauxlania rumor off this pic

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.

She probably had an italian tailored wool coat in a pastel color from United colors of Benetton bought in Italy or Austria. Or maybe one of the coats made in Yugoslavia - they were top notch quality at the time and especially Slovenia produced excellent woolmark quality knits.
Yes, you’d have just one coat, nothing wrong with that.

I didn't take the comment you were replying to as implying there was anything wrong with her having one coat. I took it to mean she grew up in a communist country and likely wouldn't have had the wardrobe of an American teen. I know her parents were educated and had good jobs but they were still living under communism.

Would she have even had access to United Colors of Benetton? I don't know much about communist Slovenia but I imagine it was like Russia and there was a ban on imported goods.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.

She probably had an italian tailored wool coat in a pastel color from United colors of Benetton bought in Italy or Austria. Or maybe one of the coats made in Yugoslavia - they were top notch quality at the time and especially Slovenia produced excellent woolmark quality knits.
Yes, you’d have just one coat, nothing wrong with that.

I don’t know what it was like in America but growing up abroad my parents came from a larger but still wealthy family and nobody had more than one coat. You had one coat, maybe one lighter jacket, and you got a new outfit each holiday. This was normal across multiple income strata.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.

She probably had an italian tailored wool coat in a pastel color from United colors of Benetton bought in Italy or Austria. Or maybe one of the coats made in Yugoslavia - they were top notch quality at the time and especially Slovenia produced excellent woolmark quality knits.
Yes, you’d have just one coat, nothing wrong with that.

Being from a ski center, she probably had another one for skiing.

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.

She probably had an italian tailored wool coat in a pastel color from United colors of Benetton bought in Italy or Austria. Or maybe one of the coats made in Yugoslavia - they were top notch quality at the time and especially Slovenia produced excellent woolmark quality knits.
Yes, you’d have just one coat, nothing wrong with that.

Anonymous wrote:I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.
She doesn’t do a lot of press but I really wish some journalist would sit down with her and just ask her lots of questions about what her childhood was like, and her teen years. I bet it would be really really interesting and I bet she would be about 80% honest.

As I was reading your post I was thinking if she would be honest it would be very interesting. 80% might be enough but more would be better.

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Anonymous wrote:Melania wore a cow hair coat and 5" heels to read to kids at Children's National today lmfao.

I love that coat but I wish she had worn something more casual for this. She does always genuinely look happy around kids.

But why always coats?

In her first lady role she has whittled it down to:
bomber jackets with skinny pants
Full coats where a dress or top and skirt would be expected (just occurred to me, does she know what sweaters are?)
Menswear for official speeches

She knows what she likes and what works. Good for her.

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Anonymous wrote:The only think MT has that I covet is her coats. That lady has some phenomenal coats. When they moved to Florida I was kind of thinking there would be an enormous sale with hundreds of winter coats in every color and length. I will wonder what happened to all those coats!!!

Barron's wife in 40 years: "Oh god dammit, Barron, how many effing coats did your mom need? No, I don't want all of them! I'll take the mink and the Chanel peacoat but I don't want 50 coat dresses! We live in Palm Beach!"

Whoever inherits all of those fabulous coats will be one lucky lady.

Anonymous wrote:Melania wore a cow hair coat and 5" heels to read to kids at Children's National today lmfao.

I love that coat but I wish she had worn something more casual for this. She does always genuinely look happy around kids.

That coat is absolutely amazing.

Anonymous wrote:I like that outfit.

She has such a beautiful smile.

+1
Agree on both counts. Gorgeous coat.

I wonder how many coats she had as a teenager in Community Slovenia. I’d guess one.
She doesn’t do a lot of press but I really wish some journalist would sit down with her and just ask her lots of questions about what her childhood was like, and her teen years. I bet it would be really really interesting and I bet she would be about 80% honest.

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Anonymous wrote:The only think MT has that I covet is her coats. That lady has some phenomenal coats. When they moved to Florida I was kind of thinking there would be an enormous sale with hundreds of winter coats in every color and length. I will wonder what happened to all those coats!!!

Barron's wife in 40 years: "Oh god dammit, Barron, how many effing coats did your mom need? No, I don't want all of them! I'll take the mink and the Chanel peacoat but I don't want 50 coat dresses! We live in Palm Beach!"

I really think they will all be sold at sothebys or on QVC as one of the final grifts.
I guess it’s possible that she has an assistant putting them all on therealreal under a pseudonym. Honestly if the mar a lago files were in a room full of coats, that would have really really amused me.