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Tired off freezing at the end of the skin track? Say hello to your new best friend: the Stoic Luft Down Sweater. Lightweight, highly-compressible, and a god-send on top of frigid ridgelines, the Luft Down offers stow-able insulation for the coldest temperatures. Stoic insulated this on-the-go oven with 750-fill goose down in the main body ensuring optimal warmth despite the weather. Close-fitting and layer-friendly, the Luft Down Sweater wants to tag along on your next climb, tour, or shoulder season-backpacking trip. The Luft's super-light, slightly transparent shell material shows off its real goose down fill. If you're aiming to use the Luft Down as a layering piece go with a true-to-size fit, but if you're looking to layer over another jacket, you may want to consider sizing up.
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Nice to see some genuine scientific curiosity, even if this isn't really the venue you'd expect it in. The answer is no. Heat is lost from your body in three ways: conduction, convection, and radiation. Conduction is through direct contact with something cold, like holding an ice cube, but since there's no air to touch, that won't be a problem. Convection is when air currents pull warm air away from you and replace it with cold air, which then gets you cold via conduction. This is how down jackets work; they make a pocket of warm air around you and keep it from being circulated away. Again, if there's no air, that won't make a difference either. Radiation is heat leaving your body via infrared light, which is created wherever there is heat. Space blankets work by reflecting that back at your body, so they don't need any insulation. That's also how spacesuits work. Down jackets, unfortunately, won't contain radiated heat, so to (finally) answer your question, if you were to wear this jacket on the moon, you would be as good as naked.
I bought the Stoic Luft Down Insulated Sweater in the Lt. Jade / Cream color for my wife and can't recommend it in this color. While the jacket is very well made and warm, the choice to combine a semi-transparent material with black and white down feathers is strange. The jacket looks dirty right out of the box because you can see the black feathers in there. Also, the tag says that the jacket is reversible, which it is not, and the pockets barely fit her hands, which are pretty small. Since it is a very nicely constructed jacket, I can recommend the Berry/Cream color as it is not transparent and looks nice if that's the color you are into.
Unfortunately the jacket does look dirty. You can actually see what he's talking about in the photos on site. My girlfriend didn't want to buy this jacket for that reason. It's a valid concern. It sucks because without that design flaw, they jacket is pretty awesome.
the goose down plumes thats used in this sweater, are from real goose. these feathers have an occasional gray down plume in them. the material is a lightweight 15 denier taffeta, very lightweight, and can be translucent. we can assure the garment is not dirty - just mad light, and warm!
I recently tried out the Stoic Luft down sweater, and was immediately impressed with the practicality of it. At a little over 1/2 a pound, the Luft is by far one of the lightest down jackets I have ever tried, which makes it great for backcounty/sidecountry touring. It is a great insulated layering piece for those cold days, and will keep you warm. The fit on this jacket is very feminine and doesn't make you look like a bubble like many other down jackets. Thumbs up!
3 Comments Last Comment: 2 days ago by: Alexander Klivecka
By: Alexander Klivecka
2 days ago
Unfortunately the jacket does look dirty. You can actually see what he's talking about in the photos on site. My girlfriend didn't want to buy this jacket for that reason. It's a valid concern. It sucks because without that design flaw, they jacket is pretty awesome.
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By: bill hartlieb
November 5, 2009
the goose down plumes thats used in this sweater, are from real goose. these feathers have an occasional gray down plume in them. the material is a lightweight 15 denier taffeta, very lightweight, and can be translucent. we can assure the garment is not dirty - just mad light, and warm!
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