Gadgetgeek wrote:That is an interesting bit of news. Macpac being a more high-end brand
wayno wrote:recently i thought the macpac gear and clothing had improved in its technical range, they had a new CEO take over and he stated he wanted to make more technical gear. they have the NZ alpine team who test their prototype climbing gear in major alpine conditions... they dumped their disastrous eVent rainshell range completely and replaced it with Pertex material. and completely new designs. they've increased the range of materials they are using to include the latest high tech materials and developed more lightweight gear.
Moondog55 wrote:Except Wayno that it stopped at XL in sizing. I am not a big bloke in real terms but I have very wide shoulders, a Macpac XL is for a chest 44 inches or 112cm, I have a 117cm chest and I want room to layer, the last lot of XL I tried on were cut so tight I could not wear anything under them except a T-shirt, not what I expected from a technical design point of view.
I really wanted to buy that UL down pullover from 2 seasons ago, I couldn't get the XL over my head [ not mislabelled as I tried two ] and this is what I mean by having technically minded designers, TG for Patagucci and USA army surplus
wayno wrote:hard nosed business trying to make a buck in a very competitive market in the modern world
Moondog55 wrote:This from the country that bred Ed Hillary? A bloke renowned for the size of his shoulders [not to mention his height] I used to climb so consider myself a mountaineer in orientation. Not catering for the extremes of the sizing range is cost cutting when contracting to Chinese factories and using Asian templates not Australian/EnZed/USA templates and patterns and perhaps Unisex sizes too.
Unisex clothing fits nobody really well unfortunately.
I meet a lot of people out on the hills much bigger than I am and they complain as much if not more so than I do. The stuff from 20 years ago was much better thought out and sized correctly but then so was a lot of stuff from every other brand out there and why so many of us now DIY or do as I do and buy surplus and wear camouflage or Olive drab/Urban grey
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