Weekly Roundup: Puffer Vests for Non-Teenagers
I did some research yesterday in the name of fashion. It was tough, I know, but someone's gotta do it, right? Here's what happened and why.
Puffer vests are awesome.
Despite the joke about vests being made for the unlikely event when your arms are hot but your body is cold, I will go on the record as loving a good
puffy (puffer? do we really have to say that?) down vest. There we go. Down. A good down vest. Here's why: I am often, if not always, cold. And while part of turning 30 for me was about just swallowing my pride and wearing warm boots even when everyone else was in short sleeves, it still bothers me to wear a heavy coat in the fall. Where do you go from there? Enter the vest.
Oh, no. No, no, no. Not like that. I'm not sure if it's more the fake fur or the way they've styled it, but everything about this vest screams high school, maybe college, to me. She's even got vaguely PJ-ish pants on, and not in a cute grown woman track/harem pants kind of way. So, what's a woman to do?
Great vests can be hard to find-or very expensive
The thing is, I found the perfect vest. I pinned it last year, actually, and it's haunted me ever since. There she is, on the left, with the big $$$ signs in front of her.
That innocent-looking gray herringbone vest that's not too puffy but not too thin is like the Goldilocks of vests, right?
She's also over $400. That's right, with two zeroes at the end. The polka-dotted chevron from the Gap is
not a bad substitute, but somehow it is both sold out on line and not in stores yet. Fail. UPDATE: the gray dotted is NOT sold out-and is fantastic! The navy dottie above right
might be a comparable substitute, but I'm afraid that it might be shiny fabric based on previous years of "research" over at the old Gap is great-yes, a bit more slick than the gray, but a feminine fit with a deep color. I still prefer the gray, but the navy is a nice second.
Also, I agree with Aint No Mom Jeans-look how
cool the Gap is lately!
