Down to party: These new puffer coats are all the rage. Max Mara

A good puffer coat is like a good piece of armor: reliable, resilient, resistant to sudden shocks and attacks (of rain, snow, sleet, wind and other weather-related terrors).

But the best puffer is easy, rich and impossibly elegant, too.

Or maybe we should say the best puffers, plural.

That’s because Max Mara — the storied coat maker behind the oversized, double-breasted and iconic 101801 style and the adorable Teddy Bear Icon coat that Taylor Swift wore to her appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” this week — makes a few dozen variations of these winter wonders.

They’re part of the brand’s The Cube collection: an integrated system of outerwear and accessories centered around the perfect padded jacket.

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