| Ah, the smoking jacket: a fashion that | | | | lit a pipe or a cigar, he would put on a |
| has gone away, fallen into the clothing | | | | smoking jacket, trapping the odors in |
| abyss with leg warmers, hoop skirts, and | | | | that jacket instead of his everyday |
| beloved parachute pants. On occasion, | | | | clothing. The jacket also served as |
| you might glimpse a smoking jacket, | | | | protection for the underclothing from |
| seeing one in an old movie or an oil | | | | ash and tobacco burns. |
| panting hanging over a fireplace mantel. | | | | Smoking jackets are typically expensive, |
| But, chances are, you don't come into | | | | which helps make them almost nonexistent |
| contact with these types of jackets very | | | | in today's society. Their high expense |
| often. Truth be told, they are a thing | | | | is due to the high priced nature of the |
| of yore: the concept of the smoking | | | | materials use. However, in defense of |
| jacket has been smoked out. | | | | the smoking jacket, the expense may be |
| Still, like the past of many things, the | | | | worth it: they usually last a lifetime. |
| history of the smoking jacket is | | | | Sometimes a smoking jacket is |
| interesting. Though you wouldn't know it | | | | accompanied by a smoking cap, at least |
| now, they were once very popular, almost | | | | for people who aim to wear the entire |
| like the jean jacket of the 1980's, the | | | | smoking outfit. The smoking cap, though |
| Disco jacket of the 1970's, or the | | | | also prevalent during Victorian times, |
| straight jacket of the 1960's. | | | | was never quite as popular as its |
| Originally developed for people to wear | | | | jacketed counterpart. It did, however, |
| during times of smoking pipes and cigars | | | | serve a similar aim: like the smoking |
| (and occasionally cigarettes) smoking | | | | jacket, the smoking cap purposed to |
| jackets are waist length and typically | | | | appease women by keeping the odor of |
| made of expensive material, namely | | | | tobacco smoke out of the hair of men. |
| velvet or silk. The jackets include turn | | | | For this reason, many smoking caps were |
| up cuffs, fastenings, and a high collar. | | | | made by wives or given as gifts to |
| While they can be any color, the ones of | | | | tobacco indulging husbands. |
| the past were usually made of hues that | | | | Today, smoking caps and smoking jackets |
| knew how to be anything but subtle. | | | | are hard to find, though some are |
| Burgundy, forest green, and dark red | | | | available online or in vintage clothing |
| were common colors used. | | | | stores. The demise in their popularity |
| During Victorian times, the smoking | | | | could be from many things. They might be |
| jacket was among the most popular of | | | | too expensive, and they might be too |
| clothing items. Its development is | | | | pretentious, but it's most likely that |
| believed to have been perpetuated by the | | | | it turns out women don't really dislike |
| belief that females were sensitive to | | | | the smell of tobacco smoke after all. |
| the odor of tobacco. Thus, before a man | | | | |