The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat (Hardcover) by Meg Lukens Noonan

9781400069934. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 244. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 244 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. "When journalist Meg Lukens Noonan learned of an unthinkably expensive, entirely handcrafted overcoat that a fourth-generation tailor had made for one of his longtime clients, she set off on an adventure to understand its provenance, and from that impulse unspooled rich and colorful stories about its components, the centuries-old bespoke industry and its traditions, and the master craftsmen whose trade is an art form"--Dust jacket flap.