Buy and Hold: Two-season coats
Where I live, the mornings are already cool enough to demand a jacket and gloves; stores brim with woolly overshirts and pillowy puffers. The bomber jacket is everywhere, whether belted or gathered, skimming the waist or an inch or two below. These remind me of a favourite cartoon, where an elephant looks at a naked man and says, "It's cute, but how do you drink through that?" The bomber is a fashion accessory for those whose outdoor mode is "inside a car". If you actually walk through the outdoors here, from now through April, a woman needs a couple of coats, beginning with lighter ones that can stand up to wind and cold rain, to our coldest-weather gear. Today in the windows, transitional coats that work for the shoulder seasons of fall and early spring, or, if you live in a milder climate, will sashay straight through. If looking for a new coat, you may notice yourself instinctively heading for the warmer end of the range. Women in the Passage like to b...
