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winter gear

wicked · Coach

Both of my wintercoats (puffer and wool peacoat) are black. I don't buy hats 'cause I look terrible in them and my coats both have hoods. I wear scarves (They are my weakness) in all different colors. I usually wear black gloves, though I do have a b&w striped pair and a leopard print pair.

atlgirl · Gucci

Does your coat match your gloves or mittens and hat? Do you intentionally buy a scarf/gloves/hat set?

Nope. I don't deliberately buy anything as a matched set. My main winter coat (really, the only one I have) happens to be black, as are my one good pair of leather gloves. But my other gloves are green, gray, and...hm. I don't remember what other gloves I have!

And scarves - what a great excuse to add a dash of color! I have a gray cashmere, two long multi-striped ones (one in garnet/purple/tan/brown and the other in cream/aqua/teal), red, blue...and I can't have enough scarves. Next to jewelry, they are my favorite accessory.

I only have one hat - a garnet colored, semi-fedora style (that's a terrible description but I can't think of a better one right now). I rarely wear hats, no matter how cold it is, because my hair struggles enough without "hat hair" causing it even more issues. :(

And wicked...now I'm going to have to go hunting for leopard-print pair of gloves. What fun!

relrel · Marc Jacobs

I think every year "this will be the year, I will get all matching stuff that is cute and fun" and then I just go on wearing the same warm, wooly (but itchy) hat and gloves that I've had for years. Work friends bought me a great green pashmina-type scarf two years ago that I've used as a scarf. So, let's see...

1. Denim coat with tan "fur" lining.
2. Navy wool hat.
3. Black gloves.
4. Green scarf.

Nope, don't match at all. It's strange, even though I put so much effort into all other types of dressing the winter outerwear just falls apart when I try. I have three thousand and one hats/gloves/scarfs but always just wear the same ones. I can't help it, I know they are the warmest. This is why I hate winter, bulky coats and all the extra crap.

squishy · Coach

i feel anything but cute in winter wear. when i was back on the east coast, i always looked like a misguided, schizophrenic skiier (eg: a white columbia shell with a zip-in fleece with blue trim, some hooded sweatshirt underneath, grey cableknit wool scarf, some ridiculous hat), and my outerwear didn't vary for 4 months a year. i was as comely as a homeless person.

calichic · Dooney & Bourke

I seldom feel cute in winter because all I really care about is being warm and comfortable. I have basic colored coats (black, ivory, powder blue) and so usually try to add a punch of color in my scarf since most of my gloves and hats are black.

Kelly · Hermes

I feel pretty cute - my everyday coat is a dark red and it's actually about the same shape as my fancy coat, like a peacoat sort of shape. I usually have some plain gloves, like just black and brown and white, so they coordinate with anything. I don't wear hats because my hair looks like crap if I do...but what I really love are scarves. I wear a different scarf every day.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

I don't match (I actually try not to!) but I make sure everything coordinates.

I have a few really cute coats and I feel like that really helps me get through winter without feeling too shleppy. One of my coats is a really cute green tweedish thing with lots of ruffles (I posted it sometime last year- its from Anthro and looks it) and I swear I get complimented on it every single tiem I wear it. My other coats are cute too (long black puffy one with fur lined hood, brown and tan burberry trench, cardinal red long pea coat- I have a slight obsession with coats...)

For a scarf I usually use a pashmina (camel or red depending on coat color) or a heather gray mohair scarf that I knitted.

Gloves are either gray cable knit stretchy ones or light brown leather (very ladylike).

I try not to do hats, but if its really freezing I have a red wool cloche type thing. I usually use those headband looking earwarmers.

Hermes

no sets for me. I wear pashminas as scarves often, and I like vintage opera length gloves. I also have tons of coats - both new and vintage. winter lasts too long to not mix it up with outerwear!

ico · Dooney & Bourke

I have two coats, one long dark green, in cashmere (gift from dad) and an orange, short one in wool from JCrew. They are pretty much all I need here in Buffalo. In the worse case, I have a horrible black long down coat, but I wear it like twice a year. And a red sky jacket which is may be 10 yo, but again I don't use it too often

As for accessories, I have 2 pairs of leather gloves, one black, one brown, and I decide which one to wear based on my bag/shoes. I have 2 hats (yellow and black) and 2 beanies (I think they are called like this?) one white one multi.

And tons of scarfs. Like D, I use pashminas as scarves, but I also have some normal ones, a bright pink, a multicolored, a burgundiy which is very wide and thick.

I agree with D, winter is to long here to not care about winter gear...

now, for the hijacking part:

D wrote:

I like vintage opera length gloves.

I'd love to have some. Can you suggest me where to look for them? thanks!