When you can't remember a thing you want to remember... →[More:]
Last year I saw a girl on the metro wearing a really cute parka. I made a mental note of the brand and looked it up at home later, but either decided they were too expensive or (possibly) found out there was embroidered embellishment on the shoulder that was facing away from me, which I didn't like.

Now I've got this idea that I need to look up this brand again, and I can't for the life of me remember the name, and it's making me insane. It's actually keeping me up doing a zillion searches and scanning brand names.

It seems to me the brand was related to the whole skateboard/snowboard world, though perhaps not as a producer of actual gear: just a lifestyle brand. The buttons on the coat had the name on them, in a semi-circle around the holes, top and bottom. That's what has me thinking it's two words, but it could have been one word split up. I think the name was kind of generic (along the lines of "American Design" or "Plan Corp.", something not a short, "people" name like Burton or whatever.) For a moment I was convinced it was Obermeyer, but I've pretty much ruled that out. So basically, I have no idea what the name was.

The parka itself was a matte, perhaps cotton-like material. Slim cut, with princess seams. It was a medium blue, kind of like a steel blue. I think it had a hood. And it was a longer cut -- between hip and knee, maybe a little closer to the hip than the knee, but a tiny bit longer than your average parka.

I know the chances of anyone knowing this are incredibly slim based on this ridiculously vague description, but I have the feeling I may never sleep again. It's like a compulsion once I realize it's not even NEAR the tip of my tongue.

To make up for the uselessness of this thread, then, please feel free to add your random thoughts or stupid questions about anything.