The extreme climatic conditions in the North Pacific Ocean require adequate clothing to cope with wind, snow and extreme temperatures and frost. The Parka has established itself all over the globe for its technical characteristics: a long jacket up to the knees, designed to cope with the harshest temperatures thanks to the feather padding and the fur-lined hood. An additional layer of protection is the external fabric, water resistant, a barrier against the cold. Woolrich is certainly the company that most contributed to making Parka known (the first Woolrich Arctic Parka was produced in 1972 to dress the thousands of American workers who arrived in Alaska to build a large pipeline, the Trans Alaska Pipeline). This garment therefore initially responded to a...
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