Winter in Bushwick brings a cornucopia of outerwear options from anoraks to parkas to capes. Kat Shuford, owner of Catbat Capes, works in a Bushwick studio to design versions of the latter for men and women with an emphasis on local and sustainable practices.

Shuford works with one of the last fabric wholesalers in the city to buy deadstock material, the leftover bits of fabric which have never been used and don’t always come in amounts large enough to constitute full orders.