“It combines utility with style in a rough-and-tumble, Britpop way”
If ever there was a garment that segued easily between town and country, the parka is it. Just the thing for the weekend, it is equally at home worn at a farmers’ market as watching a kickabout in the local park. It’s robust enough for country lanes and cool enough for Shoreditch High Street. It combines utility – its many and various pockets can be used to stow dog leads, handfuls of humbugs and cold hands – with style, in a rough-and-tumble, spirit-of-Britpop way.
No surprise then, to learn that the parka’s origins lie in the frozen Arctic, a land where warmth and practicality in a garment are non-negotiable. Made from seal and caribou skin, the Inuit wore one to go hunting…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2016 - Issue 44