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[Wormius]

Unless you can ball up a CG coat and throw it in a backpack if it gets too warm it probably wouldn’t be something I’d be crazy for. Getting too hot on a hike or out skating or something, and then having to sling a massive jacket over my shoulder would suck. The good thing about the Eddie Bauer ones are how compressible they are.

[chedder]

I'm in agreement on the dubious usefulness of a giant $1800 parka. Where would you ever need this coat in Southern Alberta? The only thing that remotely makes sense is standing around waiting for a bus on the handful of days that it ever gets to -20. You can't do anything active in it and it looks ridiculous.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by chedder

I'm in agreement on the dubious usefulness of a giant $1800 parka. Where would you ever need this coat in Southern Alberta? The only thing that remotely makes sense is standing around waiting for a bus on the handful of days that it ever gets to -20. You can't do anything active in it and it looks ridiculous.

If you’re not into layering, it would be the ideal coat to be a winter flasher. You could call yourself the Northern Exposer.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

See this hat? ‘Twas my cat.
My evening wear vampire bat
These white slippers are albino
African endangered rhino
Grizzly bear underwear

Like my loafers?
Former gophers.
It was that,
Or skin my chauffeurs.

[jayswin]

What are you guys doing in these jackets? Southern Alberta gets really cold for a few weeks per year for sure, but I can't wear a super warm coat most of the time. I have an expensive winter jacket rated for -30 and I can wear it in -20 to -30 outside and that's literally it.

I want to throw it off the second I step inside anywhere, even a store.

I have a $250 jacket from Jack and Jones (cashier gave me the family/friends discount, so $125) that was stylish and not rated for anything, and it's plenty warm for any day I've ever spent in Calgary since buying it two years ago. Like -20 and any part of my body under that coat feels like I'm sitting in my living room.

[Slava]

This discussion is sounding similar to the air conditioning debate now. “You only need it for two weeks a year”, and then people with AC/parkas say “I use it much more frequently!”

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Unless you can ball up a CG coat and throw it in a backpack if it gets too warm it probably wouldn’t be something I’d be crazy for. Getting too hot on a hike or out skating or something, and then having to sling a massive jacket over my shoulder would suck. The good thing about the Eddie Bauer ones are how compressible they are.

They have backpack straps built into the inside of the jacket (not kidding). If you get too hot, you take your arms out of the sleeves and slip them through the straps inside so the whole thing is its own backpack. It's ingenious.

[Regulator75]

Even if I won a Canada Goose jacket, the first thing I'd do is remove the pretentious eyesore patch.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Even if I won a Canada Goose jacket, the first thing I'd do is remove the pretentious eyesore patch.

That seems really silly, how can a patch be pretentious?

Though I would struggle with buying or wearing anything with Moose Knuckles branding. What a terrible brand name.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Sliver

They have backpack straps built into the inside of the jacket (not kidding). If you get too hot, you take your arms out of the sleeves and slip them through the straps inside so the whole thing is its own backpack. It's ingenious.

That thing flopping around behind me would annoy the #### out of me.

A jacket should be compactable to stow away when not needed.

[peter12]

Also let people wear the kind of jackets they like to wear.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Even if I won a Canada Goose jacket, the first thing I'd do is remove the pretentious eyesore patch.

Some models come with a murdered out black/super dark grey patch. It tones down the doooosh factor quite a bit. That's what I have. I agree the other one is a bit flashy.

Although, I seem to recall a certain someone wearing a multi-coloured leather 8-ball jacket in high school, so not sure how much of a leg you have to stand on here. People don't forget, Regulator.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

That thing flopping around behind me would annoy the #### out of me.

A jacket should be compactable to stow away when not needed.

It doesn't flop; it acts like a cape. Makes you look brooding and imposing.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Sliver

It doesn't flop; it acts like a cape. Makes you look brooding and imposing.

For some reason that made me laugh more than it should have.

Let’s bring back capes. And cloaks. I want a $2000 -40 rated down cloak.

[peter12]

I think Engineered Garments will put out a seasonal autumn cloak.

[topfiverecords]

Keep your feet, hands and ears warm and you don’t even need a jacket.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

That thing flopping around behind me would annoy the #### out of me.

A jacket should be compactable to stow away when not needed.

Okay. That looks ridiculous and the guy doing the Michael Jackson zero-gravity move is just… why?

I thought from Silver’s description is became an actual backpack; I have seen some raincoats that do that.

[Slava]

How frequently are people going from needing a full on parka to not needing a jacket at all though?

[puckedoff]

Originally Posted by Slava

This discussion is sounding similar to the air conditioning debate now. “You only need it for two weeks a year”, and then people with AC/parkas say “I use it much more frequently!”

I wear my CG parka on days when my AC is making my house too cold, that way I get good value from both!

[CroFlames]

I've seen someone wearing their jacket like a cape once indoors and they looked like a clown.