Only time I wear any sort of jacket is when I'm in the mountains...around town you're never really out of the heat long enough to need one IMO...

I go from the house, to the car, to the store, to the car, to the mailbox, to the house and that's accomplished in a hoody and trackies

I'm on public transport but it's very annoying wearing a jumper and coat then sweating your tits off inside shops. It doesn't help with DH going on about +37 and humidity and just worrying about the monsoon and whether it will being extra mozzies í ½í¸¡

Now, see, this is one of the things that puzzles me about dressing in layers.

So many people talk about dressing in layers and how if you're too hot you can take something off.

So you're outside in -30 with windchill but then the wind drops and it "warms up" to -20. You're going to take something off?

If you're in a mall or something you can take off your coat and carry it but if you're too warm under that jumper you'll be carrying two things if you take it off.

I have a nice three-in-one jacket with the two parts zipping together. Separately they provide an autumn jacket for when it's chilly, the outer part on its own keeps the rain off and, together, they are very warm, provide layering and can be removed in one go with only one item carried or hung over a shopping cart while you can stroll around inside in your T-Shirt.

I'm lucky enough to have won one of these during a in store competition, when I worked at EB, the huge zips at the front open right up, there is a mesh layer underneath so if your out an about and get hot then you unzip those and the air gets to your core to cool you down, only problem is as pockets go it's a pretty bad idea, but I guess for the people it was designed for they would have their belongings in a pack of some sort. My pockets tend to be stuffed full of poop bags and tissues.

Women's Bc Microtherm® Stormdown™ Jacket | Eddie Bauer