Vtg 50s JOHN DOYLE BISHOP Pioggia REVERSIBLE Boho Swing TRENCH Coat CAPE Poncho

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Vtg 50s JOHN DOYLE BISHOP Pioggia REVERSIBLE Boho Swing TRENCH Coat CAPE Poncho :
$148.00

killer incredible reversible piece
stand notch collar
buttons up front
two large patch pockets
arm openings
hits knee
CONDITION : great vintage
SIZE: can accommodate several sizes, best fits sz S-M, depending on desired fit, but please see measurements provided for better idea of true fit

BUST (ACROSS):freeWAIST (ACROSS): free
HIPS (ACROSS): free
SHOULDERS: free
TOTAL LENGTH: 36 in
SKIRT HEM (ACROSS) : 49 in
Pinned to model?: no
Model is 5\'3\" and measures 34\"C bust, 28\" waist, 34\" hips.All measurements are taken with the garment lying flat.

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Rare SeattleVintage 50\'-60\'s JOHN DOYLE BISHOP Pioggia REVERSIBLE Swing TRENCH Coat Cape Poncho

Fashion Icon: John Doyle Bishop

JoinMOHAI’sCostume and Textile Specialist Clara Berg on Sunday, March 24 from 1 to 3 p.m. for a presentation onJohn Doyle Bishop, a Seattle designer and shop owner from the 1940s-70s who was known at the time for his flamboyant character and belief in the chicness of Seattle’s collective style. He was famously arrested on St. Patrick’s Day in 1972 after painting a green stripe down Fifth Avenue in downtown. Sounds like quite the character and someone to know about if you love fashion and live in Seattle.

John Doyle Bishop: Irishman put Seattle fashion on mapResearch by MOHAI\'s Clara Berg preserving Bishop\'s legacyBy CASEY MCNERTHNEY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFFUpdated 4:08pm, Monday, March 25, 2013

A 1967 picture of John Doyle Bishop taken in his penthouse at the Washington Athletic Club. The colorful jacket he is wearing is part of the collection at the Museum of History and Industry.

Photo: Cary Tolman/Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection/MOHAI/1986.5.19083.2

If you look down Fourth Avenue, near the courthouse and the downtown library, there\'s a fading green stripe that runs roughly from Yesler Way to Westlake Park where it ends inshamrocks.

TheIrish Heritage Club memberswho painted it this year had a permit, but the man who started the tradition never bothered withthat.

John Doyle Bishop was often arrested for the stunt in the 1970s, when the stripe would end at his clothing shop at Fifth Avenue and Union Street. But charges never stuck, Bishop\'s big personality never backed down, and the publicity he adored helped add to hislegend.

Bishop, who came here in 1947, was a flamboyant gay man in an era when no one acknowledged that publicly. His clothing store drew Seattle\'s most well known women – Boeings, Blethens and Bullitts among them – mostly for the personal touch that made Bishop known worldwide as a fashion authority. In 1967, Harper\'s Bazzar put Bishop among the world\'s hundred best dressed men – a list that included Fred Astaire, Cary Grant and RockHudson.

To be well dressed, a woman once told a P-I columnist, is to be Bishop-dressed.

His home was the penthouse apartment at the Washington Athletic Club, which had no kitchen but a full wet bar. Bishop\'s cat was named Shamrock, his bedspread was made of JDB labels, and the proud Irishman who dressed the best in Doyle Green wrote all his correspondences in greenink.

\"Other sales people worked in his store, but everyone wanted him,\" said Clara Berg, costume and textile specialist at theMuseum of History and Industry. \"What captivated me and made me want to know more was that he was acharacter.\"

Without Berg\'s years of research, the intricacies of Bishop\'s story might have faded into the realms of ForgottenSeattle.

\'Chicks\' are more my style

Bishop was an Idaho native, born to an Irish mother in 1913 and raised on a chicken farm that he later ran after the death of hisfather.

\"Although I like chickens, \'chicks\' are more my style,\" he once told a P-Ieditor.

Eventually he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a grip at Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, but was fired after pointing out a film actress was wearing the wrong fur. \"The wardrobe department didn\'t like hearing about its mistakes,\" he told the P-I.

Bishop worked at department stores in Los Angeles and Tulsa before moving in the 1940s to Juneau, Alaska, where the local press enthusiastically wrote about the \"department store man fromOklahoma.\"

As he would later do in Seattle, Bishop knew how to play to crowds there. He convinced newspapermen that Juneau was a town of sophisticated clothes on high-caliber, cultured people. The women were just as fashionable as those in New York, he said, and were \"spending dollars like pennies, and they want the finest clothes that their money canbuy.\"

On a buying trip to New York, Bishop met Helen Igoe. A clothing store owner since 1910, Igoe was called \"Seattle\'s Hattie Carnegie\" by Women\'s Wear Daily and in the 1920s made nearly 82-hour air and rail trips to New York, where she then boarded ocean liners forParis.

Bishop moved to Seattle in 1947, working with Igoe for three years until buying her store on FifthAvenue.

While Seattle had the specialty fashion store I. Magnin and Frederick and Nelson\'s, Bishop gained unmatched loyalty by catering to customers. By 1965, Berg learned through her research, 70 percent of Bishop\'s clients bought exclusively fromhim.

\"His taste was impeccable,\" Berg said. \"Women would come to him and tell them what events they had coming up and he would look at them, learn a bit about them, and say, \'This is what you should bewearing.\'

\"He would have exactly the dress, the style and color. And I\'ve never heard a case where he waswrong.\"

Bishop also created a sense of trust with hisclients.

\"If he liked you, he would come in the fitting room,\" recalled Dorothy Doyle Johnson, 93. \"I can remember him hoisting up my brassiere strap. And you didn\'t feeloffended.\"

Longtime columnist Emmett Watson wrote that women were so attached to Bishop that some named children afterhim.

While Bishop\'s name still resonates among fashion circles and longtime Seattleites, he\'d been mostly a historical footnote since his death in Oct. 1980. There were a few mentions in look-back articles, and Watson featured him in a 1986 newspaper column. But even Watson is a name foreign to many Seattlenewcomers.

And then, as a high school student, Berg became a volunteer atMOHAI.

\'Only Fashion Spoken Here\'

In his will, Bishop arranged for an estate sale at the Seattle Hilton with the 300 guests required to either wear black tie or Doyle Green. They arrived in everything from a fur coat and corduroy pants to a mint green dinnerjacket.

Almost everything in Bishop\'s collection was saleed: his fur coats, his Waterford crystal, his sterling flatware from France, even his cat, Shamrock. The proceeds went to his niece and St. James Cathedral, where Bishop donated thousands over hislifetime.

But many details were kept as private as his personallife.

\"He deliberately promoted his reputation as an eccentric,\" former P-I fashion and women\'s editor Sally Raleigh said shortly after his death. \"But the many, many good things he did are a deep, dark secret. ... There were the many benefit shows he staged for his church, for Seattle University and for the Seattle University Guild and its scholarshipfund.\"

Several of Bishop\'s clothes – including the green jacket he wore for a story announcing his place on the Harper\'s Bazzar best dressed list – were donated to MOHAI. And years ago as a high school volunteer, Berg kept seeing his name pop up while doing a garmentinventory.

Bishop\'s role as a fashion authority hasn\'t been filled in Seattle since his death, she said. And with grunge music partially to blame, Seattle fashion is known mostly as flannel and Eddie Bauer-type outdoorwear.

In 2011, a Vogue magazine article showed a model with Seattle style better prepared for a hike up Mount Si than walk down a runway.

\"I think there are a lot of people – both here and in other cities – that don\'t think Seattle has any sort of interesting fashion past,\" said Berg, who joined the MOHAI staff in 2011. \"But it does. It goes way beyondBishop.\"

She told her graduate professors at New York\'s Fashion Institute of Technology that she wanted her thesis to be about Bishop and his influence. It would be the first substantial work done about him, and one of the few works about fashion inSeattle.

At first, the New Yorkers weren\'t sure. Seattle? Really? But Berg\'s research paper – titled \"Only Fashion Spoken Here\" after a 1960s Bishop advertising line – made thecase.

His story could be a case study of how he became respected as a local fashion authority \"and how he brought fashion from distant fashion centers to a local population hungry for the latest styles,\" shewrote.

On Sunday, a sellout crowd came to hear Berg lecture about Bishop atMOHAI.

Some wore dresses from his shop, and Dorothy Doyle Johnson\'s daughter, Patty, carried a 1960 picture of her parents from a newspaper society page. The Doyle Green dress her mother had worn was picked for her byJDB.

\"He was a dear man, he really was,\" Doyle Johnson recalled. \"He had a wonderful sense ofhumor.\"

That humor and character would not be remembered as widely if not for Berg\'swork.

The Seattle Police Department didn\'t save any records about his arrests or short-term jail stays. Interviews from Seattle TV stations weren\'t recorded to tape, and no audio or video interviews with Bishop are known to exist. Even with extensive newspaper searches, there are still gaps in Bishop\'stimeline.

This week when pulling out Bishop\'s garments for the presentation, Berg found an inventory tag with her high schoolhandwriting.

If more people knew the story of John Doyle Bishop, they could become as captivated as she was as a teenager, Bergsaid.

\"And I\'m hoping I\'ll be able to hearmore.\"

DO YOU REMEMBER JOHN DOYLE BISHOP?If you do, MOHAI wants to hear from you. Contact Clara Berg, MOHAI\'s costume and textile specialist, at(206) 324-1126, extension 144. Audio or video recordings of Bishop have not beenfound.

Casey McNerthney can be reached at [phone removed by ] or follow Casey on Twitter at[link removed by ].