After what you went through in that sweat box, you deserve to vacation somewhere nice and cold, so we're stuffing you into Burton's new Bluetooth'd Audex Cargo Jacket and jetting you straight to Tahoe.

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At Talbot Runhof's Paris boutique on the swish Rue d'Alger last month, one feather-light jacket stood on its own on a pedestal.

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Federer was the elegant artist, almost balletic in his movement, and preternaturally refined, as if he'd been raised in the pocket of Sean Connery's smoking jacket.

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He prowls Patagonia's headquarters, in Ventura, California, checking in on new designs (he showed me a sturdy down jacket that felt about as heavy as a paperclip and then said he'd kill me before telling me how they make it) and tinkering with a lightweight camp stove of his own invention at his desk.

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Roosevelt, New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis, and the novelist Pearl Buck, who'd won the Nobel Prize in 1938 and whose picture he copied from the jacket of one of her bestsellers.

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