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Does This Coat Make Me Look Like I’m Still In Bed?
Ode to my Glacier Peak number
There’s a problem with buying a coat in America. If you’re determined to get one on sale, you must buy it before you need it. Or after. But not when. Never when.
Ever since a real American once told me that only fools buy things at full price–because everything eventually always goes on sale in America–I’ve been determined to be nobody’s fool.
Only fools buy things at full price
It is thus that I found myself buying a Kanuk Actuelle coat before the first official day of winter. And an Eddie Bauer Glacier Peak Seamless Stretch Down Duffle Coat after the last official day of winter.
Why two coats, you ask. Am I a vapid everything-buyer, clicking mindlessly, you wonder. No, no, I am not. There’s a method to my madness. One is short. The other is long. It’s that simple. There are days my legs need cover.
Things went fine with the Kanuk. Before is always good, as before gives way to now, and I was armed with my Kanuk–which almost sounds like a hunting bow or something–when temperatures went down to the twenties one time this winter. However. It is actually very large.
