Time for a PWHL #DripCheck! ☔️
Minnesota Frost goalie Nicole Hensley (@nichens29) made a statement for her homecoming at the PWHL Takeover Tour. The Denver native wore a custom jacket by local designer and hockey lover Adrienne Ruth (@guffychan) of Murder on the Ice Design Co.
The black jacket has seven columbines on the back, representing Colorado’s state flower and tying in the Frost’s purple.
“It was very fun to work on because I was just surrounded by multiple shades of purple for the last month and I was like, ‘This is my happy place,’” Ruth told Kick The Concrete, saying the jacket “was a true honor to do.”
The number and placement of six flowers represents the PWHL teams and the seventh flower represents Hensley herself.
“I’ve always loved painting columbines too, so it was really fun to put them on the jacket and I put a little glitter on them that blends to kinda give it the frosted look of snow as well,” Ruth continued. “So I feel like you get both the notions of Color...