Penny Lane Coats Are Here to Add Character to Your Winter Wardrobe
glamour.comAlmost Famous, in which Kate Hudson plays a groupie with the same name. The film has remained a cult classic—and Penny’s style has been added to countless inspiration boards since.So it should come as no surprise that so-called Penny Lane —that is, midi-length silhouettes featuring shearling on the collar and cuffs—are suddenly popping up everywhere in street style and social media.However, the trend didn’t appear in a vacuum.
In 2022, Almost Famous was back in the spotlight thanks to a Broadway musical based on the film. And last year a different fictional character, Daisy Jones (played by Riley Keough), wore similar outerwear in , reigniting the style’s popularity.Still, it’s Hudson’s Penny Lane whose name is now being associated with the coat.
And the style is quickly becoming one of .“Penny Lane coats are both stylish and warm, plus they have that cool It-girl factor to them,” says , owner of , a vintage store with two locations in NYC.
She attributes the overall rise to “the popularity of shows this year like Daisy Jones and the resurgence and continued interest in ’70s style.”Vintage pieces come from that decade, or even from the early ’00s, when, Sesti notes, the look had a revival.
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