Due to a string of back-to-back snowstorms I’ve been rocking knee-high rubber boots and a shabby hooded wool coat all month.  Then last night at the grocery store I saw an older man wearing a shtreimel, the round, sable-trimmed hat traditionally worn by Orthodox Jewish men, and he looked outstanding and particularly well-equipped for the weather.

Jean Paul Gaultier based his entire 1993 winter collection on the clothes that Orthodox Jews wear.  I don’t want to romanticize the culture, but I do think that these fur hats offer good ideas about how to face the cold without sacrificing glamor.