Emma's Red Leather Jackets

"Sadly, red leather jackets don't come in to vogue here. Ever."

- Hook to Emma 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:
 * During the first four episodes of Season One, where Emma is staying in Storybrooke with no spare clothing, her jacket is bright red with a snap button collar and zippered chest pockets.
 * After Emma's possessions arrive in in "The Price of Gold ", she switches to a reddish-brown jacket with flap chest pockets, without a snap button collar. She wears this jacket until she is elected sheriff sheriff in "Desperate Souls". When Emma decides to leave town in "An Apple Red as Blood", she dons this jacket once again, and wears it until she return from the Enchanted Forest in "Queen of Hearts". She wears the same jacket after she returns from Neverland in the Season Three episode "The New Neverland", and continues to wear it in "Going Home", "New York City Serenade" and "Witch Hunt". She dons this jacket again after she return from New York in the Season Four, and continues to wear in several other episodes of the season. When the Darkness is removed from Emma in "Swan Song", the same jacket magically appears on her, and she wears it for the rest of Season Five.
 * During her stay in the Enchanted Forest in Season Two, Emma wears a brand new jacket which is a deeper shade of reddish-brown, and has a completely different design; most noticeably, the new one has a folded collar and zipper sleeves. She wears the same jacket in the Season Three episodes "It's Not Easy Being Green", "Snow Drifts" and "There's No Place Like Home", and the Season Four episodes "A Tale of Two Sisters", "The Snow Queen", "Smash the Mirror" and "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (note that in the latter, it looks like she is wearing a different jacket, with wool lining; however, the lining in fact fact part of a  separate garment. )
 * 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’s wearing in this moment, is the reddish-brown jacket with flap pockets.
 * In "The Dark Swan" and "The Price", Mr. Clark steps in as sheriff and dons an outfit similar to Emma's, including a red leather jacket similar to the one Emma wears during the first four episodes of Season One. However, it is not the same jacket, as there are subtle differences in its design: Emma's jacket has different snap snap fastener, and differently colored zipper pulls on the chest 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.