https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:55:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033803 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:33:53 +0000 K.M. 2033803@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>This is such a cool story! I'm totally fascinated by Everest and also by fashion history. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>And I also was surprised about the nude climbing! I had no idea this was even a thing! <br /></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033786 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:40:10 +0000 rachylou 2033786@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lol! Should have thought of that! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033785 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 15:21:30 +0000 bj1111 2033785@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@rachy—re barking girl. Say “heel”? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033676 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:44:20 +0000 rachylou 2033676@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cool. Bookmarking! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033660 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 21:34:42 +0000 kkards 2033660@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachylou there's actually a really interesting blog on reports on just that, fashion law....<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thefashionlaw.com/">http://www.thefashionlaw.com/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033657 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 21:31:55 +0000 JAileen 2033657@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very interesting articles. Thank you, Bijou and Kkards. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033603 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 15:41:27 +0000 rachylou 2033603@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting kkards! How can one patent ‘quilting’, I wonder? Hmm. Fashion and law, now there’s a subject(!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033583 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 14:21:04 +0000 kkards 2033583@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>love a little fashion history...<br />for what its worth, i think Eddie Buer was the 1st to patent a puffer jacket, but what he patented is the puffer part, not it seems the down part....and a reminder that just becuase you patent something does not mean that you invented it...just that you got to the US patent office 1st<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/61097/near-death-experience-inspired-first-patented-down-jacket">http://mentalfloss.com/article.....own-jacket</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033539 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 06:27:41 +0000 Bijou 2033539@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Everest is getting quite a lot of press in Australia, very sad to see people cuing and literally dying waiting to climb the summit.&nbsp;</p> <p>I was shocked to read that George Mallory liked mountain climbing nude, it seems like the exact opposite of what most people would want to do! Tweed really does not seem warm enough to take on such rugged conditions.</p> <p>As for the conflicting history, they probably both invented their own versions. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033533 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 04:05:57 +0000 rachylou 2033533@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh! Conflicting histories! Even more interesting. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033507 Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:28:06 +0000 Tina 2033507@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting. I read either today or yesterday in the Seattle Times that Eddie Bauer invented the quilted down coat after getting hypothermia while on a fishing trip. He was looking for an alternative to the wool that people typically wore for outdoor adventure at the time.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033476 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:17:39 +0000 Jenni NZ 2033476@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That’s awesome! I didn’t know that story. I did know the company Fairydown mentioned at the end, they made my first ever sleeping bag which I got as a teenager.<br /> I hope the good ABC is all right, I heard they suffered what sounds like some dodgy raid over sources this week. We used to love them for the programme “Bananas in Pyjamas” in the past! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033438 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 19:37:33 +0000 LaPed 2033438@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fascinating! I'm not surprised people were skeptical at first. The materials must have seemed so flimsy compared to what they were used to. Trying to imagine how many layers of tweed it would require to keep me warm in the Himalaya... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033384 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:03:39 +0000 Barbara Diane 2033384@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What an interesting bit of history.<br /> And what appears to be the sad cost of rivalry. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033358 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:49:54 +0000 rachylou 2033358@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh that is so interesting. An Australian! Well now. Aussies need to publicise this, I think. Do a Puffy museum. I’d visit it! :D</p> <p>But good lord! Imagine having to trek across Tibet with a naked toff. How wretched. Reminds me of a girl at school who’d get down on her hands and knees and bark like a dog. Most insistently. What ARE you supposed to do with that? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033352 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:28:53 +0000 Anonymous 2033352@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What an interesting article, Bijou. For several years we lived in Irvine, California, an area once owned by the Irvine family. I wonder if Andrew Irvine was part of this family. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/for-la-ped-and-rachy---puffer-history-lesson#post-2033347 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:04:53 +0000 Bijou 2033347@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I saw this article on a local news site and thought La Ped and Rachy in particular would be interested to know the origin of the Puffer jacket and its ties to Mt Everest.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-25/puffer-jackets-the-incredible-true-story/10133112">https://www.abc.net.au/news/20.....y/10133112</a> </p>