It’s a wrap

You can wear it with just about any color in your wardrobe. You will look just as fashionable wearing it next year as you do this year. And you can mix it with this season’s big trends – including animal prints and leather belts (worn over the coat at the waistline, as shown in the photo here).

We’re talking about the camel coat, of course. And so are a lot of other fashion-watchers. “While a camel coat makes a classic chic statement, the style is malleable enough to be either a trendy boyfriend jacket or traditional trench. Its place in fashion history, on the backs of Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly, and Ali McGraw and Kate Moss, give it a solid pedigree, and the color – a range of shades between tobacco and fawn – has a richness to it that, quite frankly, makes you look rich,” the Associated Press reports.

Can you picture one in your winter wardrobe? If so, you’ll find them in many styles and price ranges this season.

Scent of a woman

Coming in February: A new fragrance by Coty Prestige called SJP NYC, named for Sarah Jessica Parker and the city her “Sex and the City” character, Carrie Bradshaw, calls home.

The fragrance launch coincides with next spring’s release of the second “Sex and the City” movie.

It will debut at Macy’s.

“We wanted to create a party in a bottle,” Parker told Women’s Wear Daily, of the fragrance’s inspiration.

Grab a hat

Here’s a do-it-yourself gift idea that is sure to make some kids very happy: Create a dress-up box.

Shop thrift stores for costumes and dollar stores for extras such as firefighter helmets, pirate swords, jewelry and fairy wands, suggests McClatchy Newspapers.

Put them in a sturdy container such as a plastic toy box on wheels, and decorate it with the child’s name using paint, peel-and-stick letters or rubber alphabet letters glued in place.

And finally

“Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him you want it back.”

– Fran Lebowitz