Treat it as farming gear that lives at home. One coat for each player who works the snow, hung in the box by the door, is all a group needs. It comes off before every roam, so it rarely dies with you and rarely needs sewing twice.
The bill leans on cloth, more than the jacket or the hoodie take, and cloth is the easy part. The single sewing kit is what counts, half of what the jacket asks. With a base in the snow, learn this blueprint at the Level 1 workbench and leave the jacket's alone.
Watch out
Don't craft spares to break down for kits later. The ordinary recycler returns the kit only half the time, so a snow jacket sitting in a box is most likely a kit you have already lost.