With a price tag of around $1,000 per parka, the Canada Goose jacket is expensive. Canada Goose coats are sold at its flagship store and on its website. You can also find them at a variety of retailers, including Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Backcountry, Saks Fifth Avenue, and more. My Canada Goose jacket—which is the Gabriola parka, FYI—may have been a pricey acquisition, but it is easily one of the best clothing investments I have ever made. And I don’t mean cold in the way of lacking feelings . I mean cold in the way of shivering no matter how many layers I have on when the temperature dips to below anything beach-worthy.
The price point has enabled me to purchase a dressier, fully-lined wool coat for $199 from BCBGMAXAZRIA. Now you know some down jacket lingo, let’s compare all the “luxury” Canada Goose features with a winter jacket I own from Patagonia, the Tres 3-in-1 Parka. The jacket shell, or outer goose jacket material, is made from “Arctic-Tech”, which is how Canada Goose brands a standard fabric made from 85% polyester and 15% cotton with a DWR finish. Right now, Canada Goose coats are selling out fast at many retailers—and inventory is dwindling for most of the ones still available.
I have been living in Toronto for a year and half but am a native of a tropical country. My body has a very low tolerance for cold temperatures. I’m happy with my Roots canada goose puffer jacket down coat that I’ve had for many years and I felt was not cheap at more than half the price of a CG parks. I’d rather not go into debt than be a label whore.
You think they paid their workers more than minimum wage in Bangladesh? The cost goes towards nothing but your own status symbol. If you eat chicken, any dairy products, beef, pork or own a pair of leather shoes or an expensive bag – then you’re a walking, talking hypocrite. Canadian made….uh….temporary foreign workers brought in to do the manufacturing in Canada. Underpaid and exploited with the promise of permanent residency keeping them working. Take a look at our clothing industry in Canada sometime, and the thousands of people brought in for “temporary” work for the textile and fashion industry.
I am lucky to be able to afford one, by not spending on anything else this Christmas. Canada Goose jackets are well worth every penny – and after having a countless number of other types of jackets – Canada Goose is simply DIFFERENT. I’ve lived in Edmonton, Calgary etc as well as Toronto. For those out west – it’s freaking cold yes -40? However at -15 in Toronto right beside Lake Ontario it’s BONE CHILLING COLD. A damp, wet cold that you sometimes cannot shake even after having been home and indoors for 30 minutes.
The lifetime guarantee was a definite selling feature. Any company that will guarantee their product for life, goes far in my books. The fact that there is no ‘race to the bottom’ with this company was a bonus.