Alternative Uses For Tabloid Newspapers: The Homeless Person’s Jacket

ALTERNATIVE uses for the Daily Mirror: Canadian designer Lida Baday has created an jacket for the homeless that can be lined with newspapers for warmth. Also works with the Daily Express and the Sun, but not the Daily Mail which can work too well and lead to the wearer becoming incandescent with rage:

The coat is an anorak-style, with drawstrings at the waist and hem. A hood can be folded into the collar. Two pockets in the hood, four on the chest, a large one on the back, and a long one down each sleeve can be stuffed with crumpled newspaper as the temperature drops.

“You stuff or unstuff the pouches as you need to, so the same jacket that keeps you dry in the rain, becomes something that can protect you from extreme temperatures,” Baday says. In warm, dry weather, the entire jacket can be folded into one of the pockets and there are straps so it can be carried as a backpack or used as a pillow.

The newspapers can be burnt or folded into a sun hat…

Source The Star

Anorak

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