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 four different red leather jackets:
 * One is bright red with a snap button collar and zippered chest pockets.
 * One is reddish-brown jacket with flap chest pockets, without a snap button collar.
 * One has a deeper shade of reddish-brown, and has a completely different design; most noticeably, it has a folded collar and zipper sleeves.
 * The jacket Emma buys in the Boston flashback in "Only You", is reddish-brown, with zipper chest pockets.
 * Interestingly, in the frame story, 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.


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Costume Notes

 * Emma's trademark leather jacket was originally supposed to be black, but the day before shooting started, Edward Kitsis asked if it could be red, to allude to Prince Charming's red outfit in the Enchanted Forest flashbacks.
 * 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.
 * 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 producers have stated that Emma represents color coming into the drained world of Storybrooke, as seen in her yellow car and red jacket.

Appearances

 * One of Emma's Red Leather Jackets appears in a photograph in "Siege Perilous".