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FOR FALL: Jackets Warm Enough to Perform

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Instagram Says: Nobody is on Instagram on Sunday. Really? Hello you! 👋🏻- - - - I just finished this running jacket, No. 471, size small. It’s not up for sale on my website, vanderjacket 🖤com, yet, but it will be later tonight. Go for a run on my behalf!
Can a Running Jacket be a Landscape? Shouldn’t it be a landscape? Or a cityscape? I am drawn to the views I see when I run and I want to bring the memories into my jacket designs. So here is a little smorgasbord of inspiration that led me to design jacket No. 466: - - 1. Jacket 466 and the home stretch of the mile loop near our house in #bendoregon - - 2. The Denver Bronco at the Denver International Airport—that devil! - - 3. The start of the girls 4A Cross Country State Championship Meet in Colorado Springs, 2016. - - 4. Reykjavik, Iceland. Believe it or not, I was stranded there for a week. Blissful! - - 5. Watercolor sketch by Andrew Wyeth on cardboard, Denver Art Museum - - 6. See No. 3 - - 7. Bend, Oregon. I love you truly, Bend. I’m coming for you! - - 8. The front and back of original running jacket No. 466. Do you like it? It’s a size XS (all my jackets run a bit big...) You can buy it online at vanderjacket 💙com
ROYAL BLUE. I’m in the studio today! This original running jacket was made several days ago—you can find it at vanderjacket 💙com. By the way: If you live in the Denver area and like my jackets, but you want to try them I. In person feel free to email me and we can set up a time for you to do that at my studio in Aurora. Otherwise, next month I have the Holiday Horseshoe Market (@horseshoemarket) on my calendar. I’ll be selling my running jackets in the Denver Highlands Neighborhood the weekend after Thanksgiving. My fingers are flying over technical textiles as I make new jackets for the holidays! #iloveit
A couple weeks ago the first professional figure skater bought one of my jackets. I am always excited when someone buys one of my jackets, but that purchase was especially exciting for me! She said, “Believe it or not, I can write this expense off on my taxes because there is a provision for my workout apparel.” Awesome! Speaking of the tax code: Now what’s that going to look like??? Small business owners (and everyone else) want to know! Sorry I brought it up...😊 Hey! It’s #friyay - - - - This is a sketch of the back of original running jacket No. 470, size XS. You can find it and all of my running jackets at vanderjacket ▪️com.
Track Stripes on a Track Jacket. I just finished this running jacket—No. 470! You can read all the details at vanderjacket ⭐️com, but I will say that it has reflective details, four pockets, thumb-holes and a watch-hole. If extra-small isn’t your size, please stay tuned! After a very successful Fall Collection release, I am focusing on replenishing all four sizes of women’s jackets.
Feel Fall Chill? I do feel it; I can smell the chill too! It’s in the air when I head out the door in the morning to run. I have one hour to get in a workout, so never mind that it’s dark now. It’s that time of year when dressing for success—on your run—means wearing clothes that are warm enough to help you perform. For me, that means I need some thumb-holes so that I can hold my jacket over my hands until I warm up. Reflective details are important for me too: they have to be on my front and back to make sure that I’m seen when I run through intersections and when I criss cross city streets.* Most of us are urban runners, since most people in the world now live in cities, so Vander Jacket has an eye to make running jackets that suit urban runners both functionally and fashionally.** *I have been hit by a car before, and I hope you never will be. **”Fashionally” is not a word. #wednesdaywisdom - - This is jacket No. 324, size XS. You can see all my original running jackets at vanderjacket 🏃🏽‍♀️com.
Just Finished! Running jacket No. 469, size XS. This original running jacket has a hood, an iPhone pocket, two hand pockets, thumb-holes, my signature watch hole, and reflective detailing on the front and back to keep you safe when you are out running. These days I am always running in the dark! Oh yeah! AND there is also an internal key pocket. Features are absolutely abundant on all Vander Jackets—so much so that I almost forget them! - - -This Jacket will be posted this evening at vanderjacket ▪️com, along with two other XS jackets that I finished this week. Don’t worry if you aren’t an XS: I’ll be working on another size next week.
With Your Hands. I’ll admit that that I’m fascinated by the photo reproduction options in the Layout App! I’m in the studio today with “Righty” and “Lefty,” my two employees that do all my sewing—and they do my quality control, too. Vander Jackets are all individually designed and made, by my own two hands, in Aurora, Colorado. Each one is specially designed for the serious runner. You can see all the Vander Jacket Running Jackets at vanderjacket ▪️com. I’m working on replenishing my collection of extra-small women’s jackets this week. Stay tuned! #happymonday