Emma's Red Leather Jackets

"When I bought this jacket, it was meant to be an armor to protect me from getting hurt by those I love. But now it's just a reminder that I have to protect those I love."

- Emma Swan to David Nolan Emma's Red Leather Jackets are items featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They first appear in the first episode of the first season.

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * Emma has at least three different red leather jackets:
 * One is bright red with a snap button collar and zippered chest pockets. Emma bought this jacket in the Boston flashback in "Firebird".
 * One is reddish-brown jacket with flap chest pockets, without a snap button collar.
 * It's interesting to note that in "Firebird", Emma talks about the red leather jacket she's currently wearing, and how she bought it to have an armor to protect her from getting hurt by those she loves; even though the jacket she is wearing in this moment, is the reddish-brown jacket with flap pockets, not the jacket she originally bought.
 * One has a deeper shade of reddish-brown, and has a completely different design; most noticeably, it has a folded collar and zipper sleeves.


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Costume Notes

 * Emma's trademark leather jacket was originally supposed to be black. The day before shooting started, Edward Kitsis requested red after a camera test, to allude to Prince Charming's red outfit in the Enchanted Forest flashbacks.
 * The show creators have stated that Emma represents color coming into the drained world of Storybrooke, as seen in her yellow car and red jacket.
 * In the first two episodes of season one, Emma's jacket was a cheap jacket tweaked by the costume department. It was bought around the corner from the costume designer's hotel room the day before they shot the "Pilot", and cost "like 89 dollars". By episode three, the costume department replaced it with custom made leather jackets by Vancouver's Ocean Drive Leather. According to costume designer Eduardo Castro, Jennifer Morrison was "not in love with" the original red leather jacket, and the new one was a custom jacket which suits her body and is a little sleeker and a little more sophisticated. It cost almost four thousand dollars.
 * Ocean Drive Leather also created four of Emma's other leather jackets. The same company also created Sheriff Graham's leather jacket, David's leather jacket from Season Two, and Hook's leather jacket from Season Four to Season Six.
 * By the time of "Souls of the Departed", the red jacket had been remade and redone by the costume department many times, and there were about 25 to 30 different versions of the jacket. Some are a brighter red, some are medium red, and some are red brown.
 * The reddish-brown jacket with a folded collar and zipper sleeves, which Emma starts wearing in "Broken", is a Mackage Veruca Leather Moto Jacket (currently unavailable). The jacket comes with a removable inner knit vest with zip closure, which Emma can be seen wearing under the jacket in "Darkness on the Edge of Town".

Appearances
Note: "Archive" denotes archive footage.