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The armor you put on so the weather doesn't get the last word.
means Clothing like coats, jackets, and other garments worn as the outermost layer, specifically to protect against cold, wind, or rain.
from A straightforward compound of 'outer' (from Old English 'ūtera,' comparative of 'ūt,' meaning out) and 'wear,' the Old English verb 'werian,' meaning to clothe or carry on the body. The word itself is a 19th-century retailing coinage — a practical label born in the garment trade to distinguish the coats and jackets you put on last from the things you wear underneath, which naturally got grouped as 'underwear.' No hidden drama in the roots here: it's built exactly the way it sounds, outer plus wear, doing its job as plainly as the clothes it names.
- retail category
- Its own aisle because margins are huge
- down vs synthetic
- Down warms better but dies when wet
- gore-tex origin
- Invented 1969, stretched Teflon membrane
- layering rule
- Outerwear is the shell, not the warmth