Until 1953, short of arctic parkas and thermal boots, many of my dogfaces sustained frostbitten feet (incredibly painful).

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Sort of like insisting on labeling a coat as a jacket because a store still has too many parkas come spring.

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Soon the lanky, bespectacled Vallas, 44, leads a pint-size parade of orange and green parkas across a dirt lot littered with broken bottles, and into the school.

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"The Bidwills have somehow made the number one sport in America about as popular in the Arizona desert as down ski parkas, " a writer for Sports Illustrated observed in 2005.

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The first Marine detachment sent to Camp Sendai, which lies just over 80 kilometers 50 miles north of the radiation-spewing power plants, came unprepared for the snowstorms, lacking standard-issue winter parkas and insulated boots.

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Wang explored athleticism and utilitarian clothing, deftly mixing athletic fabrics with couture silhouettes (think parkas and bomber jackets with peplums) and adorning them with F1 and NASCAR symbols that at once seemed both futuristic and tribal in their arrangement.

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