women's natural fiber outerwear

Water resistance, wind resistance and structure all come easily to synthetics and expensively to natural fibers. A wool coat does the same job through density rather than a plastic membrane, which costs more to make. That economics is why the category is thin, not a lack of looking.

Dense wool has insulated people through winters for centuries and keeps working when damp, which is where down fails. The trade-off is weight and rain performance, not warmth.

Toxome reads each garment's fiber composition and scores it on what that fiber does to your body, not on a brand's sustainability marketing. A higher score means a cleaner fiber. Composition is taken from what the brand publishes, so the score reflects the label, not our opinion of it.