Women's winter jackets and down jackets

How to choose women's winter jackets and down jackets? Read the rules and tips in our today's article.

The cold season significantly limits us in the desire to diversify our everyday image. Allow yourself to change the outer clothing as often as a blouse in the summer can not everyone. To purchase winter clothes, we approach seriously and responsibly, because the wrong choice will be aroused not only by the loss of a tidy sum, but by the lack of comfort on which our good mood on the street and often health depends.
Completion of the wardrobe for the winter depends on the style, personal preferences and not least the budget of each woman. You can buy individual items for elegant, business and sports-walking outfits. Some prefer to manage one universal. But the main requirement remains unchanged: winter things should be quality and loved, otherwise the winter can turn into a real stress and create unpleasant complexes.
One of the most universal, comfortable and warm types of winter outerwear is a down jacket, which increasingly replaces fur coats, sheepskin coats and jackets from the cabinets of our compatriots. This is connected with the fact that, along with practicality, modern down jackets are also beautiful, diverse in stylistic and color offerings, and some models can successfully compete in elegance with coats and fur coats. But, unfortunately, where demand is increasing, the supply of counterfeit substitutes always increases, avoiding the purchase of which will allow knowledge of some important details.
Down jacket because it is called that in the role of a heater in it acts bird fluff with all its advantages and disadvantages. The main advantages are low heat conductivity, lightness and durability with proper care, and disadvantages are the ability to roll down and lose all of its advantages if the down jacket is sewn or operated incorrectly.
The warmest is the fluff, the highest quality - down jackets 100% based on it, made in Canada. Despite the fact that we have harsh winters such down jackets are not quite suitable for our climate, given that a large amount of time we can spend in transport or shops without removing outerwear. And the cost of Canadian down jackets is comparable to the cost of a natural fur coat.
For our region the most suitable are down jackets based on goose, duck and swan feather. In the stuffing of the down jacket, a pen is necessarily added. Winter version - the ratio of feather and feather 80/20, because the more feathers in the insulation, the colder and heavier the product. Usually in branded things not only the composition is indicated, but also a polyethylene bag with a filler sample is attached.
The guarantee of durability of the down jacket - uniform distribution of down over the entire area of ​​the product. To ensure that it does not settle and do not slide down, manufacturers make a geometric line, often in the form of squares. Thus, the fluff is fixed, but the size of such squares should be taken into account when assessing the quality of the down jacket - if the side is larger than 20 cm, then the efficiency of such a line is small, there is still a chance that the fluff will fall off. In addition, outerwear does not allow the presence of through-seams: this leads to a large loss of heat. To assess the quality of down, crush down jacket with considerable effort - if it quickly takes its original form, it means that the fluff is qualitative. If, after its straightening, visually lumps are seen, or many feathers come out - most likely this is a cheap fake.
The next object of your close attention should be the fittings and lining of the down jacket. On branded products, as a rule, labeled with buttons and rivets. All zippers, buttons, laces should be of good quality, neatly sewn. The lining should not be made of cheap fabric. Stringing threads anywhere are unacceptable.
If in the down jacket there are fur inserts - on the collar or hood, it is desirable that they are removed. This will greatly simplify the cleaning of the product.
The quality indicator is the presence of special rubber bands underneath and on the sleeves of the down jacket, which prevent the penetration of cold.
The bought down jacket can and should be placed in a package of the usual size, thus it also very easy. And if you were lucky enough to find the perfect combination of color and model, then a down jacket of real quality fluff will be one of your favorite things for several years.