Best place to buy a winter coat in Helsinki?

Cloudberry · Post by **Cloudberry** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:06 am

We'll be arriving in Helsinki in a litle over a week and I'm beginning to panic about where I'll find a winter coat. I arrived in Finland in December a couple of years ago in the same predicament and wasted over a week finding the "right" coat (but where is that coat now you ask? well it seems to have disappeared! I may have accidently given it to charity or it could be in one of the many many boxes inside our shipping container).

So, rather than waste time and be super frustated I thought it would be wise this time to get a list of suitable places to look for a coat. Any ideas? I need an XL size too so none of those little petite shops please

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brengun · Post by **brengun** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:23 am

Yeh, go in to Topman ,kamppi, and buy a classic crombie, if you don,t want to look too formal, take it out and kick it around the backyard b4 you wear it.

Cloudberry · Post by **Cloudberry** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:31 am

brengun wrote:Yeh, go in to Topman ,kamppi, and buy a classic crombie, if you don,t want to look too formal, take it out and kick it around the backyard b4 you wear it.

what the hell is a crombie???

brengun · Post by **brengun** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:49 am

crombie, a wool / blend overcoat, 3/4 length, usually dark blue or black,. fab. you,ll get years out of it. price 100e reduced from150.see, beatles in crombie ,1964, paris.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:49 am

The sales start after Christmas. Madness to buy a coat now.

It isn't even cold. I go out in a raincoat or a jacket most days.

But if you can say what your definition of the right coat is.... wool, down, Goretex??? Tailored? Sportswear? Long, short?

Cloudberry · Post by **Cloudberry** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:13 pm

penelope wrote:The sales start after Christmas. Madness to buy a coat now.

It isn't even cold. I go out in a raincoat or a jacket most days.

But if you can say what your definition of the right coat is.... wool, down, Goretex??? Tailored? Sportswear? Long, short?

I don't think I can wait till after Christmas

I'm thinking something like this:
http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/3060011?cm_ ... 0423bb4e95

EP · Post by EP » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:19 pm

You can wait for the sales. I wear the same jacket now that I wore in June. Except now I wear also a sweater. It is +7°. Go to a UFF store (used clothes) and get one that costs 5 €. Then buy one you like from the sales after a couple of weeks.

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:09 pm

Fida had 50% off last week and I went into their store in Hakaniemi and found a REALLY nice grey wool and cashmire coat for 20€ (ie 10€ in the sale) - it looked as good as new. It was 4 sizes too big for me

One of my kids got a (REAL) sheepskin coat from the Red Cross sale in Fiskars for 5€ last year!!!! In perfect condition

Personally I find those down jackets too hot and I feel like I am walking around in a sleeping bag. I have two and was seriously considering recycling them as tea cosies. They are warm and they keep the wind out, but it just hasn't been that cold during the last few years. They are useless in the rain (eg like today AND yesterday and most of last winter).

The local brand of down jackets is Joutsen http://www.joutsen.fi/index.php/en/clothing They are expensive but great quality if you can afford it.

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:45 pm

I've got a lambswool B-9 bomber jacket... its us useless - too warm (size 4xl 52/62 for sale cheap).
Layered clothing rocks... esp. today with that horizontal drizzle. Though my leather jacket smells like a genetic manipulation of a wet dog and a goat if thats imaginable.

network_engineer · Post by **network_engineer** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:50 pm

Hi!

You could just look around, you might find good deals, especially if they are "so-last-year" models

I bought a very good jacket from [was it] Stadium, I think the make is Everest(?). I think it is one of those down jackets, very light, but not just warm, but HOT! I went IIRC sometime August last year, and I got the 2007 model for 34 EUR, the tag said normal price 107 EUR or something. The whole of last winter, I wore just that over my shirt, even when I took my dog for a walk in the fields. Really warm.

Kind regards.

brengun · Post by **brengun** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 6:03 am

[quote="network_engineer"]Hi!

HOT!
its great if youre planning to join captain scott , outside at -30 in a howling gale "for some time"but in the city, have you ever experienced that meltdown feeling in the superheated department store, and you in your duckdown ,wondering n waiting for those girls make-up wall to crack under the tidal wave of monsoon perspiration.DONT DO DUCKDOWN.

, please,

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:00 am

brengun wrote:
its great if youre planning to join captain scott

You should join Oates

simon · Post by **simon** » Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:29 am

HOw about some Liam Gallagher stuff

http://www.prettygreen.com/shop/category/coats/

brengun · Post by **brengun** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:48 am

Pursuivant wrote:
brengun wrote:
its great if youre planning to join captain scott
You should join Oates

nice one. ur good, i ,d say ,very good!. tooo fast for a finn though;r u one?

raamv · Post by **raamv** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:00 am

Cheap: Tarjoustalo
Quality: Stockmann, Sokos
Everything in Between...

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