This summer is going to be so awesome!

[christopher575]

Not because I'm into the warm weather or anything, but because there's a very popular jacket in Seattle that I'm getting really sick of seeing. Maybe there's a name for it, but I'm not the type of person who reads Lucky. I'll refer to it as That Damn Jacket. Really, it's not the jacket itself that's so bad, it's that so many people wear it, even in groups. I've seen a group of five girls all wearing it at the same time. Any given day this last winter, I saw anywhere from 20 to 50 people wearing it.


Here's a lovely couple, each of them sporting that damn jacket. Think they like to have sex while wearing those damn jackets? Bonus: she's wearing open-toed shoes. It's supposedly so cold that she has to wear a furry, puffy jacket, but not so cold that she'll cover her red toenails.


Think only two people in this picture are wearing that damn jacket? Wrong. The girl behind the bus schedule is also wearing one.

The thing I hate most is when people walk around with their arms pulled into the torso of their damn jackets, leaving the jacket's arms flopping around empty. The worst example I saw this year was a woman at the bus stop with her arms pulled in, one hand sticking out of the neck opening holding her cigarette. She got on the bus this way, holding a transfer out of the neck hole. I really hoped the bus would take off and she'd be unable to catch herself, but no such luck.

I'm not one of those people who regrets much, and I almost never say I wish I could go back and change something, because you just can't, so it's a waste to think that way. But since I have unlimited space on flickr I wish I'd spent the winter documenting all times I saw that damn jacket, so you wouldn't think I'm exaggerating now. I haven't seen a jacket craze this bad since my first winter here, in 1999. I swear, every third person had a yellow windbreaker that year.

Comments

[oven.livejournal.com]

i had a purple jacket like that last winter and gave it to my sister for christmas because i felt like a clone, even if it was a warm coat. apparently it has changed color and bred!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I see a few in different colors or patterns here and there, but it's almost always just the plain black. Sometimes with stitching, sometimes not. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. (why do they sell a warm jacket with an exposed midriff, anyway, wtf?) Sometimes a Baby Phat logo. Always annoying.

Oh, also, I keep seeing girls wear those with pajama bottoms.

[oven.livejournal.com]

the short midriff on my old coat was annoying too, i forgot about that. it it can't keep my waist warm why wear a coat in the first place? mine was some hip hop brand most likely, the only redeming factor was a bunch of zippered pockets. it had a misleading size too, the sleeves in it were 3/4 length when i held my arms out, and it was even an xl.

what kind of pajama bottoms? i'm probably guilty since i wear them to work out in for a lack of comfortable athletic pants.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

One girl tonight had the damn jacket on with plaid flannel pajama bottoms. Maybe even flip-flops, I didn't get a good enough look.

Worst outfit I saw on a girl this year: the damn jacket, jeans , and patterned flannel pajama bottoms over the jeans, with the ass of the pajama bottoms pulled down below the ass of the jeans. Probably also with flip-flops.

[sunsmogseahorse.livejournal.com]

I was just lamenting that while riding home on the bus today. It's a plague. What gets me is that these people are dressed like they're mushing dogs across the arctic, when in reality it almost never drops below freezing in Seattle.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

The main reason I've had so many sightings is that I ride the bus so much. Especially, dare I say, buses headed toward Federal Way and Burien? I think those two places are meccas for fanciers of that damn jacket.

[sunsmogseahorse.livejournal.com]

And to go along with them DMV nails are a fashion must.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but in summer it will be those FUCKING FLIP FLOPS!!!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

They are already wearing them! With the damn jacket!

[oven.livejournal.com]

i am such a sinner. i wear those pajama pants in public(ish) 3-4 times a week and have worn flip flops sporadically for the last month. but not together. and i was in tucson the last time i wore the flip flops, if that helps any.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I can forgive flip-flops, so long as you promise not to wear socks with sandals.

[morleystales.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. How very 1985. When did parkas come back??

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhh! I just did a google image search for "parka" and it was like seeing this whole last winter flash before my eyes.

[morleystales.livejournal.com]

They were pretty popular around Seattle in... 1984? About the same time as moon boots. I think I even had one.

Now I think coats suck and I'd rather not wear one unless I absolutely have to.

[filarabit.livejournal.com]

We have a similar plague here... fuzzy ball boots.... every single woman that came up here to ski (or to look like they were skiing)seems to have bought the same pair of boots... They are sheepskin moccasin's with dangly fuzzy balls hanging from them. And now I am wondering where the hell they are all coming from. I just did a bit of looking around on Google... and found basically nothing like them.. ??

[filarabit.livejournal.com]

I forgot to add that even here most of them were wearing a colorful variant of that damn jacket, inside a casino with an average temperature of about 80.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Google image search "bazaa boots" and you'll find a bunch of them for sale on ebay and Overstock. Come to Seattle, and you'll find a bunch of hoes wearing them with miniskirts.

[unpetitours.livejournal.com]

The worst is that coat in white.

Paired with Ugg boots.

Die.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm concerned, white is just for jock straps and gym socks.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

John Waters once said there is no reason to wear white unless you're sailing a boat.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

OMG PARKAS.