coatless moi

I've always loved being tall, but it sucks when it comes to finding a winter coat. My arms are too long for me to shop in the regular women's department--everything is too short. And you can't have too short winter arms--the cold will get in!! Length is all-important.

Which means I can't wear a Cute Winter Coat.

Well okay, I could order something from the Tall Girl store (though I'm pretty out for clothes shopping on the net) but there's another reason I can't wear a Cute Winter Coat, which is: Once you go hood, you can't go back. I tried last winter, when I bought a new coat sans hood. (It wasn't even cute. It was just the least worst of the men's coats at Zellers.) I walked into work, and Billiam had his big North Face coat with the faux fur trimmed hood, and he said: "But your last coat had a hood! How could you ever go back!" I shook my head: "I know, I know. This coat is shit."

It's not only the hoodlessness that makes it shit. It's just plain coooooold. The torso's ok, but the arms are COLD. Which makes NO sense. If you're gonna skimp, skimp on the torso where all my organs are! I don't know what I'm going to do with it. Make it into curtains or something.

Now you see this Tall Girl coat. Cute, but warm? HA! Please. It wouldn't take me beyond -10.


So I'm checking out North Face. Forget cute. But I wonder if I could at least find funky? Maybe geeky? I already have a nice tuque that says: Don't make me think, it hurts my head.


Maybe something like this. You see, if I get a coat in pea green, then it has some geeksappeal. Geeks in cool geek movies movies always wear army jackets or parkas. And then there's the retro 80s appeal, that Adam Baldwin's been rocking for (apparently) his whole career.


But such parkas are in the $300 range. Ouch! I'll have to head down to a store and check this stuff out in person.

Here are the girly coats from North Face, which won't have long enough sleeves.