im asking what is the fascination that people have with jackets designed for temperatures and conditions that NYC does not experience...
...aren't they are designed for Arctic circle research missions or moutain climbing in the himalayas, type stuff?...
...if its just how NYCers do well more power to them, i guess
Store employees noted that some bought the coat for its big pockets — to stash guns and drugs in.
The Marmot Mammoth Jacket is filled with down, has a zip-off hood and boasts lots of pockets — all for about $700 or $800. It's also a status symbol among teens in New York, leading to shootings like the one in Bryant Park on Saturday.
Picture a drug dealer or gang member walks into a store and is looking for a coat with big pockets to stash stuff, warm, and price doesn't matter. The store employee is going to point them in the direction of the most expensive coat they can sell that matches the description.
Now once a few notorious drug dealer or gang members even dudes pitching dimes on the corner get the coat and the young kids see them wearing it they see it as a status symbol because they look up to the drug dealers or gang members that are getting all the money and girls. They want to be like them.
So even if you don't sell drugs, gang bang, or do other illegal stuff for fast money you can put up the tough gangster facade if you have this coat. This is what a lot of rappers who are not "about that life" do with a lot of gear/kicks/jewelry/etc.... Then the rappers start talking about it in their songs, mention it here and there and these trend spreads further to the young impressionable kids willing to do anything, even kill, to have this coat/kicks and be cool.
Really, all hood gear can be traced back to the corner boys and bigger drug dealers who always had the money to buy this stuff and flaunt it. Hood materialism and hype based on d boy specs. Certain things become entrenched in hood culture and just become staples. Look at Pelle Pelle, Champion, etc... Just ask ninjahood
It's a trap if you ask me. Won't deny it's good quality gear. The killing is senseless though.