Street style: Fresh takes on the trench

The holidays came by so fast I hardly felt it. I feel a bit bitin so I’m planning to celebrate Chinese New Year even though I’m not Chinese. I just feel so envious that the Chinese have an extra holiday to celebrate and I don’t.

I was wondering why Christmas came and went like that and narrowed it down to two reasons: 1) my dear husband took down the tree before Three Kings; and 2) there was hardly a cold night in December.

God was kind enough to lend us one cold day on Christmas Eve and that’s it. Even our Meralco bill, which usually goes down in the "ber months," went up in December.

This is what we call global warming. If you haven’t seen it yet I would highly recommend that you all see Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, a mind-blowing documentary on global warming, out on DVD.

On the fashion front, I was very disappointed not to be able to wear my fall collection. Although on December 24, when the temperature dropped a little, I was able to wear my Inspector Gadget trench from Mango without sweating.

On a recent Tod’s junket in Hong Kong, I noticed so many chic people wearing trench coats, which I love. I recalled Louis Vuitton’s Cruise ’07 collection in Macau, which included a new take on the mackintosh.

This built up my desire to buy a new trench. First I checked Burberry at Shang where they had one for P78,000–way beyond my budget–so I hopped across to Mango where they had one for less than P2,700. Unbelievable. That’s the same trench coat modeled by Milla Jovovich. I grabbed it.

Every—body’s just about on sale right now. I tried some cute trench coats at Zara, but found them too warm for the tropics. Although I thought it might be nice to travel with them.

Here’s a compilation of trench-coat photos over I’ve collected over the "ber months."