Itemized: The Penfield Summit Classic
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Within a month I will be standing in a giant snowdrift in Oslo, probably complaining to the zero people around me that it is incredibly cold. Without getting into too much detail, I am psyched about this. Not psyched to potentially lose my fingers to frostbite (if anyone has good, warm glove recommendations holler at me in the comments), but psyched because I will be wearing this ridiculously warm Penfield Summit Classic jacket.
This is a big move for me for a few reasons. Mainly, I’ve never been one to wear a puffy coat. Like all my personal hangups, I can only assume this came as a result of that episode of Seinfeld where George gets the really puffy coat and breaks like every bottle in a liquor store just because he turns around. But I’m 25 years old. It’s time to stop living my life according to things I see on Seinfeld (I will never stop this).
My first thought when searching for the right puffy coat was that it needed to be sleek, it needed to have a classic feel, needed to look like something I could wear in virtually any decade. My dad lived in Alaska for ten years, and looking at the coats he wore then, they seem just as good now as they ever were. The Summit Classic achieves that because it doesn’t try to be more than it should be. It doesn’t have too many pockets, it doesn’t have stereo speakers in the hood or heat-activated hyper-technology (I definitely just made that up). It’s just a coat, and like any classic and timeless coat, it’s the small details that make it stand the test of time. The hood is detachable, and it actually looks good with or without, although I prefer with. There’s a small flash of red and black check lining the zipper and hood. It’s not intrusive enough to clash with any shirt pattern I might be wearing, but it makes it more than just another jacket full of feathers and whatever else goes into puffy coats.
It remains to be seen if the coat will keep me warm at a never-before-heard-of level when I touch down in Oslo, but I know I’ll feel like a classic mountaineer either way.
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posted on Jan 27, 2010 in ITEMIZED
Color Me Bad: Red
- story Alex Frank
Our wardrobe has always been a mood ring of sorts, and colors come in and out of importance for us depending on any number of things, including weather, relationship status and location. Red Autumn color therapy was the order of the day for fall, which seems more than appropriate, but even now that winter has started and the fall leaves are gone, red has remained a comfort to us. Not sharp reds, but muddier and dustier ones like maroon and cardinal shades. Maybe we’re just trying to remind ourselves of autumn, but a head-to-toe red outfit can be like a shot of B12 in this cold weather, especially in New York City, where everyone else’ll be in all black. You’ll be needing that come January. We’ve gone ahead and compiled a red ensemble for you, and if you can pull it off, you might just make someone’s cold, depressing day a bit brighter.
Strawberry Petit Standard jeans at APC
Original Fake scarf at Commonwealth.
Henrik Vibskov socks at the V-Store
Folk “People” Cardigan at Oki-Ni
Brogue by Mark McNairy x ACL & Co. at A Continuous Lean Shop
Brick Fjallraven Kanken backpack at Oi Polloi
Penfield Sedgwick hat at Oi Polloi
Itemized: The Penfield Navajo Satchel
- story Siri Thorson
Every week a different FADER staff member will pick a clothing item or accessory that he or she has lately been spending a lot of time with—or would like to—and write a little love letter to it. We would’ve done a column on who we’re dating but that seemed a little bit much. This week style intern Siri Thorson writes about the Penfield Navajo Satchel.
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posted on Nov 10, 2009 in STYLE NEWS
