Not so impressed

By mhaas100003294 Ranked #3426 - Men's Down Jackets May 1, 2008

Everyone else is correct in saying the length of the coat is too short. That wasn't my biggest problem with this coat, which I had to return for a refund. The worst part of the coat, in my mind, was the ill-advised decision to place the sticky/catchy side of the hook-and-loop on the same size of the front zipper as the nylon band that's meant to keep the zipper from catching on the jacket on its way up. Before I ever so much as put the coat on, the hook-and-loop was attaching itself to the nylon band, preventing the ability to zipper without first pulling the hook-and-loop apart from the nylon band. To make matters worse, the nylon band was pulling and becoming damaged worse each time the hook-and-loop was pulled off it. Due to this, the brand new coat was damaged before I ever put it on and was getting worse all the time. Had the hook-and-loop been attached to the coat in the opposite way, this would be solved but Mountain Hardware was more interested in telling me this is not a construction flaw and they have been making the coat this way for several years; there was nothing they could or would do to address the problem. Luckily, this site was much cooler about it than was Mt Hardware, and I was able to simply return the coat for a full refund. It's too bad, because I actually liked the coat but was unwilling to deal with the zippering/hook-and-loop issue each and every time I want to put the coat on, nor was I willing to accept a coat that continuously and increasingly damaged itself.

View Details: Mountain Hardwear Sub Zero SL Hooded Down Jacket - Men's

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