Vancouver’s homeless will soon look a bit more stylish thanks to a private initiative to provide them with matching weatherproof capes.
Arc’teryx, a high-end Vancouver outdoor clothing manufacturer, on Tuesday announced that, for the fourth year running, it will supply Vancouver-area homeless with insulated rain capes sewn from “highly technical waterproof and insulated fabrics.”
Dubbed the Bird’s Nest Project, the program “repurposes excess fabric and creates weatherproof capes to help offset the cold and wet of winter for those living on the street,”
Rainy Vancouver keeping homeless dry.
