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"I had a friend visit me here in NYC last winter, and she told me the first thing she wanted to do was go out and buy a black coat. &amp;quot;Why?&amp;quot; I asked her. &amp;quot;So I can look like a New Yorker!&amp;quot; she told me. But truth be told, we residents of Gotham City can be a bunch of bores when it comes to our coats...which may be why I&amp;#x27;ve been getting some strange looks lately. I&amp;#x27;ve been wearing dark coats for as long as I can remember, from my first pea coat from Gap circa 1995 to my most recent Calvin Klein wool coat with the fox fur hood (AKA, my personal sleeping bag. You have no idea how warm that thing is!). But this season, I&amp;#x27;ve branched out for the first time and I&amp;#x27;m so happy I have. As you may have read, I&amp;#x27;ve got a new animal print coat that I&amp;#x27;ve become rather chummy with. I also recently expanded my outerwear arsenal with a blindingly bright turquoise Marc by Marc Jacobs double-breasted wool coat that is getting some serious stares on the street. (Check out the original jacket here, and my version below, where I swapped out the silver buttons for some tortoise ones I liked better--an old style secret of mine!) And be warned: my crappy photography skills don&amp;#x27;t do this color justice! Like Blair Waldorf and our Best Dressed Reader&amp;#x27;s red coats, it just brings an instant dose of sunshine into my winter days, and I&amp;#x27;m totally loving it! In fact, I&amp;#x27;ve barely worn my black coat since I got my hands on this one, because I&amp;#x27;m so in love with the bright, bold hue. So tell me ladies--what color is your winter coat? Are you a basic black kind of gal, like we dark and brooding New Yorkers? Or do you rely on your cheery coat to get you through the dreary winter? Have you made the switch to a loud pattern this season, or are you sticking with your neutrals? Do you have one for special occasions and one for every day? Share! Top: Istockphoto"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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