Christmas market outfits

Christmas market outfits are built for hours on your feet in the cold: a down or wool coat, a thick knit, sturdy boots, a scarf and gloves. Wear the knit close under the coat, and keep to black, navy and grey so every layer goes with the next.

Christmas markets began in German speaking towns in the late Middle Ages, and the one in Dresden was first held in the fourteen thirties. Moncler, founded near Grenoble, made its first down jackets for its factory workers, and Canada Goose made its Expedition parka for scientists in Antarctica. Mackage, from Montreal, works in down, wool and leather, and Guidi, which began as a Tuscan tannery, dyes its horse leather boots after they are made.

Due West in Toronto carries down coats and parkas from Moose Knuckles, Mackage and Canada Goose, with wool coats and knits from COOR and Les Deux. WDLT117 adds Guidi boots and coats from Undercover and RUOHAN, and Utopia adds Moncler down jackets and vests, some pre owned.