The sheer absurdity of the idea of wearing a jacket or coat during the spring and/or summer is not lost on me. It's patently ridiculous to wear any sort of outerwear between months four and nine and I won't allow anyone to tell me otherwise. Of course, you'll still get the bloggers and magazines that say you have to get one for those "chilly summer nights" or whatever. You can just stop yourself right there and get all the way the fuck out of my face with that shit. But there is something to be said for a coat that is so fire, so unrepentantly great and lightweight enough that you actually consider buying it even when your iPhone tells you it's 80 degrees out—a coat that makes you fulfill a Kanye lyric like, "Shopping for the winter and it's just May" even though it's only April. That's what this Dries Van Noten coat is. If I were trying to make the ridiculous argument of wearing this during the summer, and I very might well be by now, I'd point out that it's made of viscose and exceedingly lightweight. But I should really just tell you that because this thing is so pajama-like, it's more at home straight up chilling in your (hopefully) air-conditioned apartment. It's way more like the top half of a pajama set than it is an actual coat anyway. To that effect, why soil this beautiful garment with your own sweat when you could just lounge in it so disrespectfully in the comfort of your own home?
