It is soon, isn't it - the WINTER COAT will come out. Other people have gotten their coats out. There have been days this week when I outside in summer weather to me wearing a top and no coat and other people had parkas on. I know that the weather will catch up to me but for now it is avoidance of what's coming tactics.
Today's coats seem completely different from the coats of 60 and more years ago. Back then they were heavy wool with heavy pleated shiny satin linings. I was young, so I don't really remember if they were warm or not. I expect they were so heavy that we sweated from the work effort of carrying them around on our shoulders. Typically coats could weigh up to 10 pounds if they were long.
Even when we got feather down coats they weighed around 3 pounds if you got a longer parka or a blizzard coat. That is an amazing improvement, though.
Jump to where we are today - down coats (and non-feather alternatives) weighing less than a pound - between 300 to 500 grams. There are now nano-coatings directly to feathers that result in "hydrophobic down." That development came in the 2010s. These seem like scientific miracles.
The coats of past were put together by sewing the inner and outer fabric layers - but every stitch makes a needle hole and that means wind can leak in. Remember how the down used to escape? Now they use laser-welding, gluing and other techniques.
And the linings are made of something completely different. Do you remember when we got that space-age blanket for the emergency kit? Those space-age metallics are used in the internal linings. I guess that explains why we sit out in the winter in those cute igloos at wineries overlooking the Lake.
So now we can say that we have smart winter coats. I wonder when AI will get embedded in my coat and will start to do my thinking for me.
Here's my draft of the Lotus Leaves and Koi. This is a watercolour background that I soaked in water and scrubbed to get those scratch lines and diffuse colours. The Koi and Lotus Leaves were drawn in Photoshop. They are separate images so I can now start to experiment with different colourings, placement and scale.
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