"I couldn't take it anymore," my sister admitted to me over the phone while scurrying down Broadway, back to her Tribeca apartment. "I had to buy one." She was talking about the floor-length coats sweeping the city that everyone--except her apparently--is wearing. Her trusty puffer from last winter, she said, was looking very last winter, so she needed to level up. She had toyed with buying the most popular one by (less expensive in this wool ) and eyed these by , , , and . Ultimately, she snagged the last black medium at .