I assume that "parka" and "anorak" have different meanings?

So, apparently, am I. I generally wear one of two padded parkas pretty much throughout the colder months, and a lighter one for most of the rest of the year.

I haven't heard of that trend here, yet, but I assume it will come here, too. It's so interesting how anything European here is considered cool (and we consider the British to be European).