When I was a child, I always dreamed of becoming a fireman. That didn’t happen for me. But wearing a fire-red, survival-style offshore jacket around the frozen food section of a grocery store wasn’t the consolation prize I was expecting.
My boss sent me some foul weather gear to test—the Gill OS2 offshore jacket ($375) in an eye-watering red, complete with a highlighter-yellow hood and white reflective strips across the shoulders,
