Today I tried on lots of coats and this is the last one and the best one, the 8848 Utah Down Coat in picture 1. Most of them were jacket-type.

Some of them had a hint of a waist, but none of them gave me a waist like this one. It also is really windproof, it is stormy outside and I was happy to stand in the hard winds where other moms took shelter from the school building.

I also wore another coat of a similar shape, the The North Face Suzanne Triclimate in picture 2, but it was a little longer and less puffy, it was a down inner coat with a flat outer coat which makes it more versatile, but I had a hard time reaching for the zipper. In hindsight I would like to go back and try it on again, but really I am going to be so annoyed by the low zipper.

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