Vintage 1960s British Racing green soft supple suede fitted coat Cherry London curly greige grey lamb fur front collar cuff Mod with macthing vintage gloves & scarf
 
This is a fabulous dark green suede coat of high quality,, with tight curly grey lamb fur on front, neo funnel collar and cuffs. It is by Cherry of London so a quality piece from the mid to late 1960s.
It OOZES class ! As dark green tends to....
Measurements are waist 31 inches Bust 36 inches hips 34 inches 
shoulders across 17 inches
Length 33 inches Sleeves length shoulder 20 inches armpit 16 inches.
So a size UK 10 I would say, 8 if you want to wear with sweater. 
 
Interior design the expression & concept of 'greige' has become a fabulous new 'cog' in the co-ordination process. So why not fashion? You cannot normally team grey with beiges and other neutrals, but you can if you have something 'greige' which is to say something between grey and beige to bring both/either into play. It works best so it doesn't become an insipid dull understated to point you disappear, with a strong dark colour and dark green is one of the best ways, and usually adding in a tertiary. It's tricky to do if you aren't used to it, so I have done it for you here with this amazing coat. The front is a curly lamb fur. I think Swedish lamb, rather than karakul. Swedish lamb coats were popular in the later 60s too, and can be in beige brown or cream but the nicest for me is in these ery natural greys, which are 'warm'. This rich dark green - like a British Racing Green- supple suede coat is trimmed with such.  The fur is grey, but it will work with beiges as I show. 
And British Racing Green eh? A colour always associated with class and edge (speed with motor cars). The MG sports car was the aspirational and almost affordable symbol of style in the 1960s, and were often dark green. They cost around a grand. Which is double the cost of a mini at the time, but not so out of reach is you aspired to the sports car image. Mods often did. Their scooters which cost around £160-£200 were in the first instance, an affordable method of transport but they became a visual and subversive statement but also embracing of the Italian 'good life ' (La Dolce Vita). As they young Mods earned more money, cars like the mini came within reach. And particularly for women. Often living at home with parents often paying as little as 10 bob a week, as there was full employment back then so working class young people didn't have to move away and pay big rents (and even if they did well rents were typically £2 a week ie just 10% of average wage). So they had money for clobber, records, clubs and gigs. 
This was the dawn too of the independent woman in the open top sports car , and the MG midget eg was just £600 ie not much more than a mini! Now for women who worked in fashion in particular, you also have to remember they had massive discounts on clothing , and even interchangeable with other stores. So someone working eg for a supplier like Cherry Leather & Suede, or Peter Barron, or Kitty Copeland etc, all not far from Oxford Street in the hidden supply chain of showrooms for boutiques and department stores they supplied, often got huge discounts on those stores too! PLUS, many girls who worked in the stores could build up huge commissions on sales as it was a boom time with all that disposable cash. Basic wages were pretty low in retail but the girls didn't care when for eg they could earn £50 commission ie 5 weeks wages on one luxury fur coat sale!  So these girls were often raking it in and having been brought up with the aspirational Mod ethos of looking sharp and smooth, and  image everything, and not having to spend as much on their discounted clothes, could afford a Mini or for the few, a sports car like an MG Midget. 
 
In 1967 'Two for the Road' , widely regarded as Audrey Hepburn's 'Mod' fashions period (she wore the Paco Rabanne shiny disc mini dress in the movie eg) and featured a 1950 MG sports car,  drove the point home too (excuse pun) that there was always the second hand option. And, incidentally, Audrey Hepburn had in real life several of this style on new fitted suede fur trim coats (see video).
The independent women with the midget MG became a near cliche! And while it would be incomprehensible to the modern mindset, YES women co-ordinated their wardrobe to their cars, in terms of style and colour! So think of that girl driving along with headscarf flying our behind her in a smart fur trimmed coat...the very essence of the successful independent woman. If you could get a bit of work done on your second hand purchase then you could be on the road for LESS than the price of a new mini!  
Also to consider is, by the mid to later 1960s, Mod fashions had become 'dandified' with lots of loud colours, bold op art designs etc. It wasn't for all Mods. many who had painstakingly constructed subtle sartorial messages with more sober colours and cut, emulating the British upper class gent like John Steed, or the smooth secret agent like those Men from U.N.C.L.E. wouldn't catch Napoleon Solo or Ilya Kuryakin looking like Austin Powers . So there were an enormous number of those brought up with Mod, who wanted a little more class. Often they'd go for that English aristocrat look: girl Mods after all already had the 'twin sets' and smart slacks, tweed pencil skirts, and head scarf.
And the Mod girls also had of course long gone for the suede & leather coats, especially in dark green. Until c 1965, these leathers and suedes had been straight cut. But in 1965 the movie 'Dr Zhivago' was released, and that began to change everything in coats. The 'Princess' coat was born, often adorned with fur trim and/or braiding on the front. Soviet styles of fur trim coats & jackets in suede be it in 'Russian spy chic) movies or real life (Pierre Cardin influenced), were also an influence. And these coats had much more 'fit' to them. The Guardian wrote in 1967 that straight coats had had their day and new feminine fitted coats were the in thing, and the illustration at the top of the page featured a coat like this with curly lamb trim with this same neo -funnel neck. 

Often suede & fur coats were sold at the time with silky head scarves, as they protected the neck from cosmetics and skin/hair oils, as obviously the cost of cleaning such coats with suede marking easily, is quite high. Easier to cool wash your silky scarf. So in that tradition, I have selected a lovely vintage scarf large square, with very classy pattern, which is a jade green but has buff and grey and sage green design, which works again very well if you want a coat to bring your varied neutrals into play with grey. Also, I came across a lovely pair of dark green suede driving gloves which come with, and a pair of granny takes a trip retro sunglasses.  This coat is class, and whoever so she ends up with must give her the appreciation she deserves! I'd love to see her in a vintage MG sports car in British racing green! So super eg for Goodwood Revival, even if you just wear to be photographed with one in! 
As smooth as the Hammond organ in Green Onions by Booker T and the MGs, my tune from the 'Spirit of the Age and Garment'. It was released in 1962 on Stax, and again in 1967 on Atlantic. But interestingly. it didn't make the top 10 on either release and had to wait until the 1979 Mod Revival and Quadrophenia to get in the top 10. Sting incidentally who features in the movie as the Ace Face, had an MG at the time too in real life.