Down jackets have become a winter favorite, the more filling, the more comfortable. The fashion aspect mostly falls by the wayside. Even if you go for high fashion, as two extreme examples show.
For them: Too short
The German winter is a sad affair. Gray building facades merge seamlessly into gray skies, streets and faces are gray. The wet cold that creeps into your bones as soon as you leave the house also feels gray. The woman needs a thick coat. Not necessarily to distance yourself from the freezing temperatures – but from the sadness. The key word is fur. After all, why has the female cold protection reflex been made up of feathers (or down or synthetic substitute fillers) for years? Everyone wears huge quilted coats and arctic jackets as if the Coen brothers were planning to remake Fargo. We know that only Frances McDormand looks really good in an expedition look! The fashionable extinction of one’s own personality must come to an end. Time to face the winter in a more dignified way. Bold suggestion: the extreme version of the cropped trend, seen here as a lambskin jacket by Jacquemus, who is known to be a fair-weather designer. A lot is now cropped, from T-shirts to sweaters, because high-waisted cuts – very high-fitting skirts and trousers – have been established for reasons of convenience for several years. Shortening jackets so that they expose the kidney area to the enemy is obviously not a good idea. To remember that you have a waist in winter, yes. Which is more important, the physical or the mental integrity? A dilemma that can be resolved with ski underwear underneath.
For him: too long
Light down, heavy down, artificial down – even if the fillings differ slightly, the silhouettes in the winter cities have settled down to an astonishing monotony. The majority of passers-by appear as a bead collective, bodies disappear under bulging textiles that are sometimes layered in sausage cross ribs or, as recently en vogue, quilted in thick squares. Of course, the insulation and warmth of the springs is unmatched and the lightness of this natural material amazes you every winter. When it’s very cold there is nothing better. However, many now wear their darning jackets for nine months a year. This is just as questionable as the fact that men too have an increasing need for full-body duvets. The new down jackets are thickly lined and reach down to the calves, which basically hardly flatters a figure. And when a pack of young lawyers rustle past in such body-length pillow coats, you can’t help but get the impression that you’re dealing with a rather effeminate urban population. Please, I want a super warm grandma bed feeling, but I step into the mesh sneakers with bare ankles. Hedonists hard! The impression of lazy laziness is of course reinforced by a bathrobe lacing, like here with a model by Fendi. Pure decadence, just carelessly tying the luxurious filling compound. Like driving a convertible in winter and turning up the heated seats to the full. Excuse me, good idea?