Esther’s Picks: The Anonymous Oversized Coat is Actually from H&M

How many love songs in the history of music have been inspired by a “doe-eyed girl on the subway?”

One song, and its writer has been remiss to create another since the moment Beautiful fled from Bedlam and into the hearts of pubescent girls everywhere. Well, Mr. Blunt, I also saw a girl on the subway, and although she hadn’t been with another man, she was wearing the most incredible oversized coat-bathrobe thing that my eyes had ever seen.

The black wool swallowed her small frame, covering every inch of her skin save for a thin slice of ankle eloquently perched amid the purrrtiest pair of kitten heels. It was the type of outfit — nay, she was the type of girl — that convinced you that you were doing it wrong.

I would lose sleep over this girl.

I needed a plan.

I resisted the temptation to ask if I could climb in. The coat was big enough for three, two easy. Alas, this was the New York subway, when you find a viable seat you storm that station like Normandy.

But my momma taught me better than that, and so I asked the woman where she’d gotten her coat — a less imaginative approach than cocoon ambushing but a safer bet nonetheless. She responded with the most glorious word known to trend-seeking-womankind.

No, not Paris. 

Rather, H&M.

One quick google search above ground revealed that the wool-blend coat was part of the retailer’s F/W 14 Studio Collection. It was available in a size XS for $199 and it was soon to be mine. Behold, one more excuse not to change out of your PJs in the morning, and a haiku that has no place here:

Lend me your comfort 

Your warmth, cover me whole now

Just please, don’t trip me

Update: At least two men have shouted at me “damn girl, I thought that was a bathrobe!” during the shoot for this post. Success.

Shoes by MM6, jeans from Brandy Melville jeans and sweater by The Reformation