Description:
Woman's butter-yellow wool coat worn by Cathleen Clare Esleeck in the 1970s. Esleeck probably purchased the coat at the Wellesley, Massachusetts, branch of The Wool Shop, whose other locations in Massachusetts included Concord and Osterville.

Label Text:
Designers in the 1970s provided women with a variety of options for formal and casual dress. More choices helped to usher in the freedom to wear clothes that reflected personal style. Fashion, which had dictated very short, and then very long, hemlines in the previous decade, had arrived by the mid-1970s to a comfortable in-between length. Neither too fitted nor too oversized, coats and dresses skimmed the wearer’s body in an unconstricting and flattering silhouette. The rich butter-yellow of this coat’s wool also reflected the decade’s preference for a more natural color palette in fashion.

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