We spent the morning researching the various brands of children's outerwear we carry at montkid.com to determine what we'll recommend when customers email or call us. Since we recommend all brands we carry for certain situations, we'll focus on the question we get the most: What brand of children's outerwear is the warmest? The best way to answer this question is to look at how many grams of insulation an item of children's outerwear has.
Children's Obermeyer
The top rated brand of children's outerwear for warmth is Obermeyer. The warmest kids winter coat for the season is the Girls Posey Jacket at 240 grams and the Boys Sport Jacket also at 240 grams. Both of these jackets are under $100 which is an incredible deal! Most of the other Obermeyer Kids Jackets are roughly 220-240 grams. Obermeyer Kids Snowpants are roughly 100 grams which seems to be the industry average. When we move up into the larger sizes of Children's Obermeyer Jackets (6-18) the insulation drops down to 140 grams.
Children's Patagonia
Patagonia ties for the top spot in our review of warm children's outerwear (Obermeyer gets a tiny edge in terms of number of choices, but we're not allowed to talk about style choices in this article). Patagonia's excellent construction, quality use of materials and strong environmental messages appeal to bajillions of parents. The Puff Rider Jacket features 200 grams of insulation plus a durable water repellent finish to keep them dry when the skies unload.
The good news here, is that this jacket, with all of it's warmth, is available from size 3 months to 14 years! Patagonia edges out Obermeyer in the snow pant department. The Puff Rider Pant features that same 200 grams of insulation but are only available in size 3 months to 3 years old. After that, the kids have to tough it out in the 100 gram Snow Bum Pant.
Children's Spyder
Rounding out our group of brands at the top is Spyder. Spyder's Mini and Bitsy kids jackets in sizes 2-7 feature 160 grams of insulation. The Spyder Girls and Boys Jackets are at 140 grams. Spyder's kids snowpants are between 60 and 80 grams. The warmest little girls and toddler coat from Spyder is the Noatak Down Jacket with 600 fill power goose down. Even though the Noatak is a kids down jacket, it has a water repellent finish.Reima, Deux Par Deux & Bogner
Of course, we also love Reima for the babies with about 140 grams of insulation in their one piece snowsuits and sets. Deux Par Deux is extremely warm, but doesn't list grams of insulation so we couldn't compare them. Just based on the number of years we've been in the business and our uncanny ability to judge insulation based on touch, we're guessing they have about 140-160 grams for their snowsuits and sets. Bogner is another brand that we love, but does not list their grams of insulation. I think they think they are above such a thing because when we ask, they roll their eyes at us and tell us their outerwear is made of the finest quality materials in the world. The down from the underbelly of the Eider Duck (superior to the goose)! We agree it is awesome. Eiderdown tests at approximately 700 fill power so that's all we can really say about that.
Children's Columbia
Winter wouldn't be winter without a mention of Columbia. Columbia is a wonderful value brand. And warm, too - we think! Columbia is another brand that does not list insulation in grams. It varies piece by piece but we believe it has roughly 100 - 120 grams of insulation. Perfect for most climates -especially toddlers or babies who are not exposed for hours and hours. We especially like their sets, like the Arctic Andrea and the Whoosh.
Did you make it through all that? Has the wave of cold weather hit your area yet? Let's try another private sale. Enter coupon code: warm at checkout for 25% off all regular priced merchandise. Sale runs through November 20th. At which point, we will probably kick off our very public annual Thanksgiving sale (same discount). So, we're giving you the chance to shop early and get the best selection.
