Technical city wear

By brynb Ranked #349 - Men's Jackets February 12, 2009

I love this jacket. I wear it around San Francisco, and it is perfect. The jacket I have varies slightly from the one pictured. 1st the sleaves do not extend on the pincky side of the hand as shown in the picture, and the inside welded pocket does not have a velcro strap over the iphone sized pocket.

Where this jacket wins out over others is in attention to detail.

The phone pocket is pretty secure and the way it is cut gives you a little lip at the edge so objects that are square will catch the little lip if you bend forward and wont fall out easily.

The interior welded pocket is comfortable to access and your hand slips in an out very smoothly. Also, the second interior pocket on the other side of the jacket is high capacity pocket -- about8.5 in wide by 10in deep. It is designed like an airplane seat-back compartment. So you stuff stuff in it and it holds up pretty well. It does get heavy though and the weight can be un even.

Only the body of the jacket is insulated. So the arms just have a (nylon?) cloth lining but no primaloft. The body of the jacket is insulated, but it is not a heavy insulation. It is thin and light, but provides more warmth than your soft shell jacket.

The zipper is a heavier metal zipper than most jackets. It has a really nice feel to it and glides nicely. This is a manly zipper (no offense to the girly zippers). Another great detail is that they have reinforced the windflap on the inside of the zipper so that when the zipper reaches the neck area, where their will be the most abrasion from the cloth rubbing against the zipper.

This thing feels like it is built to last. Everything has a reinforcement strip. All the stitching is clean, and it is waterproof with some Japanese lamanent waterproof up to 20,000mm. I don't know what that means, but it keeps me dry. The zipper is probably not waterproof.

The whole style of the jacket is a little more casual than your standard ski/outdoor type jacket, but it has great quality materials. It is cut slimmer than most, and is intended for standing around not tough winter sports. It has an excellent range of motion.

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