Begedor Italia is a vintage line that crafted highest-quality leather and silk garments in the 1980s and '90s. This is just about the best of the bunch. It's a bomber jacket in quilted Italian silk, with camel-color ribbed collar, cuffs, and hem. Its theme is meeting between pre-Columbian meso-America and Christopher Columbus -- the rich native American culture that existed for thousands of years, and the man sent off by the queen and king of Spain in search of riches, who landed in the Americas in 1492. [If this print looks familiar, it's very similar to a scarf "Columbus and the Americas," from the same period by a famous Parisian scarf and handbag maker whose name begins with an H.] The lining of this jacket is acetate, and it has slash pockets in front that do not interrupt the striking print. Measurements: length 22 inches; pit to pit 21 inches; sleeve 23 inches; shoulder 17 inches. The size tag says 10; I put it between a medium and a large. from a smoke-free, dog-loving home.