puffer jacket

The Endless Winter Search: Finding a Jacket When You're Tall

The annual hunt for a winter jacket in SoHo is a quiet ritual of hope and compromise. One New York woman, standing six feet tall, knows the drill: pants fit, dresses fit, but the puffer jacket remains an elusive conquest. The sleeves stop three inches too short, even when the largest size swallows her frame whole. It is a familiar curse, passed down like a family heirloom. Her mother still wears the same coat from decades past, the only one that ever worked.