Oh hell yeah Leer...I'm down with the DOWN....Down Down...Deeper and Down...I'm so Down I'm Up......until I'm back...


DOWN

/\  I have liked some of Penfield's designs, but the Western-style leather yoke down jacket is not Late '70s East Coast Prep .... leather yokes and brown down don't fit the Northeastern vibe and color scheme, but green, or blue, or red nylon, or tan poplin, or even orange nylon down jackets and vests were around and they did the trick ....

bearing in mind that many of the hardcore would avoid down jackets to show they weren't cold .... there were other reasons too, including archaism .....

but then again Southern Connecticut is not the very coldest spot in New England ....

the down jacket was something I personally wore when I went foraging for hot food very late on a cold night ...

the more urban the campus, the less down you'd see ...

currently I have a Penfield item bookmarked away, but it's on the overpriced side for something made overseas ... great style but the price is wrong ....

over the years Penfield has been a company I could have bought many things from had they made their stuff here or in Canada .....

Penfield has recently been acquired by Four Marketing, a company that owns over 30 brands. They intend to drive the company forward in new and exciting directions, or some such. There is no chance that manufacturing will be brought back to the USA for this company. It's now a fashion brand that trades on its short heritage. Check out their website.
Meanwhile a company that does manufacturer in the USA, New Balance are having their products trashed by millennials social media types because of a message on twitter from NB daring to say that Trump may give them more support than Obama?

I agree to a certain degree. That said, my very own Penfield stuff is a Gibson jacket bought in the sales for €66,-- (and they still make profit) and that jacket but it is a NOS jacket that cost lessthan 50% of the original price...

^ I can never see those coats without thinking of the insulating jackets that used to be wrapped around hot water tanks in peoples houses.

A bit gutted to find theyre not doing these in my size..a gore tex dessie boot with nonslip sole would be great for the winter months..maybe a better choice of colours would help too..i know a lot of us fear the crepe come winter

http://www.clarks.co.uk/p/26119025

Last edited by Bop (2016-11-13 00:20:11)

Three, there is a Loden green too.

/\  Bop, I saw those Neu! Balances and I bookmarked them, the colors and style really look throwback even if they're actually modern .... because I'm not sure when the cut-out/insert/overlay/two-tone style of hiking boot appeared ..... did we have anything besides Vasque Sundowners? 

... was just a Florida beach bum in King A. Bartlett's court, hadn't become a mountaineer yet, wore canvas tennis shoes and blucher mocs, Bean boots when it poured .......   

if you do go for the NBs, which are cool, please let us know how you like them and if you think they're well-made .....