One of my favorite newsletters, The Strategist (a weekly dispatch of shopping deals from New York magazine), recommends that I buy the very hyped Orolay down coat, a “viral” coat exclusively available on Amazon.com with more than seven thousand reviews. Priced at US$130, and with a four-star rating, it seems like a good deal. Man Repeller, a well-known fashion blog, agrees, saying the coat has “murky origins” but that it recommends the 90 percent down jacket. The murky origin, it turns out, is rural China. Jiaxing county, Zhejiang to be precise, where locals work for Orolay, churning out these
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