Espresso Brown Ruffled Mink Jacket with Peplum Hem 1922

Description

A very dark pelt hides nothing, which is the opposite of what people assume. Pale fur forgives an uneven skin because the eye has no shadow to compare; go this dark and every variation in the pile turns into a change in the depth of the shadow, so a poorly matched garment looks blotchy under any direct light.

This espresso brown ruffled mink jacket is cut from skins sorted for depth rather than for surface shade, which is a slower sort and the reason it reads as one piece of colour. It is near enough to black to wear as black until a lamp reaches it, at which point it turns clearly brown — and that shift is the point of owning it rather than the black one.

Cropped to the waist with a ruffled peplum and elbow sleeves gathered at the cuff. See the rest of our mink jackets, the brown mink coats for the same tone at length, and what is currently in the clearance sale.