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What it takes to make a $50,000 overcoat What, exactly,Cheap Black Shapely One Piece Swimsuit on sale goes into the making of a $50,000 overcoat? The question intrigued journalist Meg Lukens Noonan — and the result was a trip around the world for Noonan, and a delightful book for the rest of us.Fourth-generation tailor John Cutler, of Sydney,Australia, made the ultimate coat for one of his wealthy clients: crafted from vintage vicu?a cashmere and hand-printed silk lining, detailed with perfect buttons from a 150-year-old English firm,crotchless swimwear & bikinis sewn entirely by hand, from patterns created specially for this garment. 

The finished coat, shown in a small photograph, looks elegant but unremarkable; its lines so classic as to render it almost invisible.sexy stewardess But its story, told with first-person flair by Noonan, is a stunner.We watch vicu?as being sheared in Peru; live la dolce vita in Italy with a legendary silk designer; tour textile finishers and button manufacturers in the English countryside; visit Sydney, where Cutler tends to his small but devoted clientele; and finally find the coat tossed over the back of a couch in the posh Vancouver apartment of its owner, a wine-company executive who’s mad for tailoring. 

Along the way, we learn that it took silk makers centuries to learn how to tint the fabric without destroying it; white fishnet pantyhose with rhinestone backseam that Louis XIV spent $5 million on buttons during his reign; and that gentlemen in bespoke suits protested the recent opening of an Abercrombie & Fitch in London’s Saville Row by chanting “All we are saying is give three-piece a chance.”Some of this tale feels elegiac: That struggling English button factory must compete with far cheaper plastic buttons from China; and Cutler sadly notes that his business will end soon,black fishnet body stocking as his sons have no interest in tailoring. But “The Coat Route” celebrates those who work with their hands, creating something beautiful and lasting.