Apparently Norma Kamali invented the puffer for women:
After splitting with her husband, Mohammed (Eddie) Kamali, in the mid-1970s, she took to camping in the woods with a boyfriend. “It was cold,” she recalled, “and I was always getting up at night to go to the bathroom.” On one particularly nippy night, she threw on her sleeping bag and sprinted for the bush. “As I was running,” she said, “I was thinking, ‘I need to put sleeves in this thing.’ ”
Ruth La Ferla for The New York Times
(Photo by The Sart)
you were unaware of this?
ReplyDeleteMUCH better.
ReplyDelete@lauren shove a neti pot in it
ReplyDeleteHa, I'll think of this every time I throw on my snowboard jacket. And remember it's badassery.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about this. You learn something everyday
ReplyDeletethat is awesome and so is that hilarious long tag
ReplyDeleteWow. Who knew!!? And did you know that Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo?
ReplyDelete@Rony <3
ReplyDeleteI very much like that.
ReplyDelete@lauren - After the diatribe yesterday, I have concerns. What if I can't let go of my puffer vest? Even though I live in LA? Are we still friends? I bought it from Eddie Bauer 10 years ago, so if we wait a little bit it will be vintage.
I see these look so good on other people but I know I'd just look like a deranged person in a parachte.
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@Rachel lauren says puffer vests are okay.
ReplyDelete@ esb - Oh, thank god. I was afraid I was going to get kicked off the christmas card list once I admitted it.
ReplyDeleteNobody worries about this in places where it's so cold everybody has giant puffer coats (i.e. Chicago). Subzero trumps style. Sorry, but there it is.
ReplyDeleteBahahahaha
ReplyDeleteWould a puffer like the picture keep me warm?
ReplyDeleteOk well clearly that lady is a pretty hardcore and awesome. I just remembered we actually wore our sleeping bags during the dawn service for ANZAC Day at Gallipoli, cos it was -4 (28) with a mean, mean wind. So. I may be warming to the puffers a little, just a little! (Warming - ha!)
ReplyDeleteI'll remember this when I hit the USA.
it's true, rachel; the vests don't muck up your whole silhouette, and they're occasionally designed rather nicely.
ReplyDeleteon eddie bauer, it should be emphasized that his c. 1940 "blizzard-proof" jacket was the first puffer; as esb noted, kamali feminized it to great effect several decades later.
on the card list, baby, you know you're permanent.
also, mouse, i agree with you on subzero; my whole point with the aussies is that it's never going to get so cold in nyc that you have to go balls to the wall on the fashion v. function spectrum. in a chicago or montreal winter? forget about it.
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