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Well, now. Thanks to the fashion blog academichic and to a little more lunchtime poking around the internet than I should strictly speaking be indulging in (but I'm still feeling a little out of it due to the dregs of headache or possibly coming down with something), I have learned two things today.
1) The long puffy down coat thing is a trend. I thought it was just something like pea coats that New Englanders/people on the East Coast do, the same way people in the Canadian West/Southwest wear brightly-colored Columbia/various snowboarding branded jackets. Not that North Face isn't slowly and tragically infiltrating the Canadian West, but I definitely put the long puffy coats down to being a strange and timeless Eastern thing.
2) The bizarre gumboots that everyone is suddenly wearing with the sweater-knit top edges are actually regular gumboots with special fleece/wool liners. This is a major revelation to me! Unlike with the coats, I did recognize before now that this was some kind of trend, but I thought it was some kind of bizarre it's-cold-but-not-really-cold extension of the trend of women suddenly wearing gumboots (never dudes, of course. Gumboots wouldn't be manly for dudes now that they're trendy for the ladiez.) in bad weather. But apparently it is a brand, called Hunter, and it's British, which explains its appeal among the J-Crew set here, and of course, I stand by my it's-cold-but-not-really-cold assertion to explain why it has persisted into the winter. That would never fly in Eastern Canada, and luckily it hasn't caught on yet in the more clement parts of Western Canada. Apparently they're calling them "Wellies" here now too. GUMBOOTS, DAMMIT.
This has been your moment of bemused westerner for the day. I'll go now and wrap my red-and-black lumberjack-check flannel shirt more firmly around myself and go and rustle some cattle now.
1) The long puffy down coat thing is a trend. I thought it was just something like pea coats that New Englanders/people on the East Coast do, the same way people in the Canadian West/Southwest wear brightly-colored Columbia/various snowboarding branded jackets. Not that North Face isn't slowly and tragically infiltrating the Canadian West, but I definitely put the long puffy coats down to being a strange and timeless Eastern thing.
2) The bizarre gumboots that everyone is suddenly wearing with the sweater-knit top edges are actually regular gumboots with special fleece/wool liners. This is a major revelation to me! Unlike with the coats, I did recognize before now that this was some kind of trend, but I thought it was some kind of bizarre it's-cold-but-not-really-cold extension of the trend of women suddenly wearing gumboots (never dudes, of course. Gumboots wouldn't be manly for dudes now that they're trendy for the ladiez.) in bad weather. But apparently it is a brand, called Hunter, and it's British, which explains its appeal among the J-Crew set here, and of course, I stand by my it's-cold-but-not-really-cold assertion to explain why it has persisted into the winter. That would never fly in Eastern Canada, and luckily it hasn't caught on yet in the more clement parts of Western Canada. Apparently they're calling them "Wellies" here now too. GUMBOOTS, DAMMIT.
This has been your moment of bemused westerner for the day. I'll go now and wrap my red-and-black lumberjack-check flannel shirt more firmly around myself and go and rustle some cattle now.