Puffer jackets polarize: some love them in winter and like to wear them, others consider them a fashion and consider fellow human beings in it as an uniform padded creature.
Is criticized, well, the bacon roll look, and that so many people are exaggerated, even if there are just temperatures around freezing.
It is similar to the Autotype SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle), the terrain lines that many like, but find others out of place as city off -road vehicles.
“The people in the pedestrian zone are dressed, as if they wanted to rise the next day to Everest,” said mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner in an interview with the German press agency.
“Buffer jacket craze: walking sleeping bags”
Some blasphemy. “Invasion of the Michelin-Männchen,” wrote the ‘Berliner Zeitung’ in January, spoke of the “buffer jacket madness: walking sleeping bags, piercing quilting ceilings and pillows, where the eye looks.”
The ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ said years ago: “Everyone has huge quilted coats and arctic jackets as if the Coen brothers had to re-film” Fargo “.” Only Frances McDormand in the expedition look looks good.
And the ‘NZZ’ in Switzerland once found for the wealthy surrounding area of Zurich: “” Anyone who occasionally is on monetary lake shores can observe the stuffing of entire population groups. “
Speaking of the empire: Heidi Klum was seen a few weeks ago in the noble ski town of Aspen (Colorado) on a walk in a buffer jacket, whose quilting look with braid pattern looked particularly voluminous.
The trend towards the thick jacket lasts unusually long
Such an appearance is only the tip of the iceberg, we now strain frosty phrases. The trend towards the extra thick clothing of rather mild winters has been around for years. But it catches the eye more and more.
“This is relatively unusual for fashion that a trend lasts so long,” says Anna Sophie Müller, lecturer for textile and fashion at the European University of Flensburg.
Always new cuts and individual pieces are added. The particularly thick -looking clothing is fashion, has a social function, is “a vestimentary code that is communicated in social space”.
“What exactly is associated with this depends on the scene, youth or subculture,” says the textile scientist Müller. A characteristic characteristic of fashion is “the naturalness of paradoxes”.
In short: “It is impossible to name the meaning of this trend. To explore this, you would have to ask people, i.e. do a field study and find out exactly the respective fashion function. ”
The thick jackets are also too much of a good perspective
As a scientist, she also looks at it ecologically critically, says Müller. “We have to go down from the high consumption of resources.” A world without fashion – only with clothing that offers purely functional protection, shame, shaking the body – it would be helpful, but be utopian.
An exploration in the field leads to answers at Dick merged like ‘This is such a feel -good thing’. “It is about holding cold, that also helps my psyche when I surround myself with a lot of fabric,” admits a mid -forties in Berlin.
Another also sees the textile SUVs, which are mostly divided with synthetic materials. “I love my buffer coat, I have never frozen in it – in contrast to the past,” says the Bremen native. “No other coat can keep up. Since I have it, I’ve been going out for a long time in winter. “