In 2018, we wrote about “the Amazon coat” — a $140 parka made by down-coat brand Orolay that took the Upper East Side by storm, popping up at the 92nd Street Y preschool, an 83rd Street SoulCycle, and the cult-favorite drugstore C.O. Bigelow. (“A woman at a department store literally bought it on her phone, right in front of me,” Neiman Marcus fashion director Ana Maria Pimentel told us.) Though it’s no longer a secret — in 2019, Strategist contributing writer Amy Larocca clocked 14 Amazon coats on one trip from Brooklyn Heights to the Upper East Side, and the parka’s geographic reach has spread far outside New York, from Toronto to Oklahoma — it remains popular because it’s a good coat, perfect for the snowy, blustery weather this week. It’s on sale today for $88, a better deal than when we first discovered it four years ago. Stay warm out there.
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