Rare Early 1980s Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat designer-jacques-heim The dropped skirt is gathered

The dropped skirt is gathered along the front and then gently flares out so it swings around you when you move

the skirt is left unlined

Both the skirt and the jacket have numbered couture labels

I love the ruffle around the top of the bust - it is a much better finish then just a straight edge would have been

Rare Early 1980s Norma Kamali Sleeping Bag Coat designer-jacques-heim The dropped skirt is gatheredAs the legend goes, the sleeping bag coat was invented by Norma Kamali after a camping trip. From an interview with the NYTimes: "After splitting with her husband, Mohammed (Eddie) Kamali, in the mid 1970s, she took to camping in the woods with a boyfriend. It was cold, she recalled, and I was always getting up at night to go to the bathroom. On one particularly nippy night, she threw on her sleeping bag and sprinted for the bush. As I was running,