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The folks at C.C. Filson Company, Seattle, Wash., have seen their customers' needs change over the years. Filson has designed premium outdoor clothing and accessories for the "American Sportsman" since 1897. The company's history dates to the Klondike gold rush, when Clinton C. Filson outfitted adventurers seeking their fortune in Canada's brutally cold Yukon Territory. As gold mining has given way to upland water fowl hunting, Filson wearers have become accustomed to the quality of the design and make of their outdoor clothing--but what about everyday apparel? Filson has a "fitting" answer in its first casual clothing line, the Lodge Collection.

While we here in the Northeast unfortunately can't boast of Klondike-like winters--have you guessed yet what our favorite (December, January, February) season is?--it does snow on occasion and we can count on a number of days (and nights) where the thermometer dips below freezing. That being said, our first order of business with the Lodge Collection was selecting a coat. No, make that two: the Lodge Canvas Foul Weather Coat ($265) and the evergreen Guide Twill Pea Coat ($345).

The cotton canvas Foul Weather is designed to offer outstanding wind and rain protection with a storm-flap over a two-way brass zipper, tab-closure neck flap, draw-cord waist, elastic inner-cuff with snap adjustment, soft moleskin-lined collar and handwarmer pockets, and large double-cargo pockets.

The Twill Pea's cotton gabardine provides a more tailored silhouette combined with Thinsulate in the body and sleeves for protection from the cold. Quilted upper body and wool lower body linings provide warmth for the chest and small of...