My coat collection has a pretty good selection of fun and "work" coats. Pieces that add to an outfit and mostly, hopefully, also keep me warm. When I picked up this coat during the end of season sales last year, it was never gonna be a "fun" coat. I got this coat because DC is developing this tendency of being really f*cking cold and it's making me sad. I'm fortunate to be able to say that I also think it's cute enough to throw on top of lots of different outfits so when it feels like 1 degree Fahrenheit outside I don't lose a limb.

So what you should be taking from all this is that you probably need an Eddie Bauer coat in your life. Paired like it is here with OTK boots which are *this close* to being perfect (they stay up over jeans but not on bare/tights covered legs) and while I wouldn't lie to you and say I was toasty, I was ok hanging out on play ground that at 3pm on a Saturday had no one else there.