I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there are going to be proper cold snaps between now and Christmas – probably beyond, too, but the weathermen can’t see that far into the future, useless fuckers. I don’t mean that. What I mean is that the fact that you can even tell what the weather will be like tomorrow is like actual witchcraft.
Anyway so look – who’s excited?! Me, I’m totally psyched for this seasonal weather we’ve been having. Hot summers, cold winters!
Last winter wasn’t even very cold and I swore I would get myself proper Canada Goose parka next year (i.e. this year). It has taken me verily 12 months to get my head round the enormous and unfeasible expense of a CG parka (around £900). I am revved up for it now, also because I have been working a lot recently and so have actual money of my own, not that my husband wouldn’t buy this for me but, y’know…
BUT! Ha ha! I spy a bargain in the shape of the Canada Goose KIDS SECTION. I have just ordered a girl’s “Brittania” parka jacket in black in XL for £500 from a place called Base Fashion – they still have some stock left. I will report back on sizing but I suspect from the widespread sell-out of these in XL on other websites, I am a bit late to this trick. I can’t imagine that that many people are buying these for their hefty teenaged daughters.
Anyway, as they have free UK delivery and returns it’s silly not to order one really.
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Mine arrived and although it was excellent in most regards, it was just a tiny bit snug. So this would be a great and magnificent purchase for anyone who is a solid size 10 or smaller. Any bigger than that (come on, be honest) and it’s just going to annoy you. Which you’re not looking for in a £500 purchase.
November 4, 2016 at 5:06 pm
But real coyote fur – and those fur factories are so, so cruel :( :( :(
November 4, 2016 at 6:48 pm
This is very true.
November 4, 2016 at 7:00 pm
I treated myself to a didrikson parka last year working on the reasonable premise that I live the Highlands of Bloody Scotland and it gets cold. Very toasty, enormous hood, (fake fur) that makes me feel like a Russian Duchess on the steppes…………………£275.00………job done!
November 5, 2016 at 2:30 am
I have a teenage girls large Canada goose parka and i don’t think it would be overstating anything to say that it changed my life. Miserable winter trips to the park are made marginally more bearable when you are so warm you might as well be indoors. I bought mine for -30C temps but now regularly wear it when it dips below 15 as it’s never nice to be chilly (slippery slope)
November 5, 2016 at 6:15 pm
For the record, coyotes aren’t farmed, they’re trapped, and to trap in Canada you need a license and a trapping line (basically a tract of forest or other suitable land that you either own or have been granted access to). Basically they are trapped by rural folks who then sell the furs.
The controversy around coyote fur isn’t about ‘fur farms’ as those don’t exist for coyotes (at least not in Canada), it’s about a) the specific types of traps used, which although legal some argue aren’t sufficiently humane and b) some people are vegan or otherwise object to hunting. Coyotes aren’t endangered or anything.
And personally I love them and am always excited when I see a glimpse of one (which is possible even within Toronto in some larger parks and ravines), but I do know farmers who despise them as they do sometimes kill sheep.
Personally I just wish they shot them instead of trapping them, as large animal traps are often leg-hold traps rather than kill traps.
November 6, 2016 at 12:10 pm
Wow, thank you for this very informed comment!
November 5, 2016 at 6:24 pm
Also, Canada Goose, jeez… Do they sell thinner ones in the UK than they do in Canada? Or is London colder and less wet than I thought? I would worry you’d overheat and get uncomfortable and sweaty. I guess it depends how cold sensitive you are and what you’d be doing (standing around is always more cold).
November 7, 2016 at 9:59 am
For 900 pounds I would want it to lay golden eggs. (I am coming across as miserly in my comments, I know) But so worth having a super warm coat, so much standing about with kids. Bonfire night was really cold compared to previous years, when we’ve all been wrapped up far too much.
November 7, 2016 at 10:28 am
Cindy I have really thought long and hard for 2 years about the investment of a Canada Goose vs other parkas I have seen/owned/tried and I think based on cost per wear, it’s worth it.
November 7, 2016 at 11:15 am
Do agree it is nearly always worth going for the best you can afford, esp with coats. To be honest if you go a couple of rungs down it’s still a lot of money, and a waste if it’s not quite right and you’ve STILL got the coat problem hanging over you.
November 7, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Looks lovely. Around this time each year I start jonesing for a really warm down coat. So far I have held off (mainly because I can’t see myself wanting to wear it on the Tube / in John Lewis / on the bus). They are nice though.
November 8, 2016 at 10:51 am
Love these coats! I have a down jacket, not Canada Goose though. They do turn up in TKMaxx from time to time. Spotted the teenage one online http://www.tkmaxx.com/girls-jackets+coats/black-longline-padded-coat/invt/73245697
November 8, 2016 at 1:35 pm
I bought a Moncler down jacket when I was at university, in some fit of extreme and unusual wealth (birthday dosh, I imagine) – I think it was about £300 in 1994; I have just looked at their website and would not be buying one today! – BUT I wore it solidly every winter for about five years and have recently resurrected it from the back of the cupboard and it looks just as good- and is as warm – as it did/was when new. So a really good coat can be quite expensive and still come up trumps on pence-per-wear so long as you don’t chuck it out in a fit of pique when it goes out of fashion.
I loved the fact that my Moncler had a label with the cleaning instructions which also suggested that you use the down to stuff a cushion when the coat finally died. Brilliant, but I’m going to be waiting a long time for that cushion ….
November 8, 2016 at 2:24 pm
Sophie you must NEVER chuck anything out that was once expensive, that you once wore a lot but now knackered (you can have it copied) or that has any sort of label… I’ve learned that the hard way
November 8, 2016 at 7:32 pm
I wonder whether you would also like these?
http://www.woolrich.eu/on/demandware.store/Sites-WPBAWO-UK-Site/default/Search-Show?cgid=wo_women_parka
Although FIENDISHLY expensive (in my world), there are quite a few that are around the £500 price.
November 8, 2016 at 8:14 pm
Fjallraven? http://www.fjallraven.co.uk/singi-down-jacket-w And the hood is lined with the fur of a synthetic animal, so ok there.
November 9, 2016 at 10:43 am
Also check out Scotch and Soda kids section for EXCELLENT parkas in navy or khaki, a mere £150 and the 16 year old one still fits a mega jumper underneath.
November 9, 2016 at 4:17 pm
I spent similar on a moncler coat.
Weeks later I fel and broke my arm. In my drug addled state I heard the nurse mumble “we could cut the coat?” And somehow sat up (a lot of drugs) shouting like a mad woman “NOT THE COAT, take my arm off!!” Thankfully they found a way to shimmy it off.
November 9, 2016 at 6:54 pm
Sonia I absolutely love this story
November 11, 2016 at 7:43 pm
Vestiaire Collective have some in pretty good nick… *off to raid my children’s piggy bank and or bank accounts to find £700 sharpish*
November 26, 2016 at 5:48 pm
I have just bought a Helly Hansen Eira parka and it is the bollocks. 20% off in the John Lewis sale.