I grew up using products like this in Ontario Canada fishing, hunting, trapping. So happy to see it still available and Canadian made. More and more I'm trying to get away from supporting foreign markets and go local when ever I can. Now if I can only find an army green metal frame canvas backpack.
My Loden Green Anorak came today, three or four days before I expected it. Thanks for excellent customer service! I chose the Boreal Mountain Anorak over the Weather Wool Anorak because of quality and the BMA is a simple construction. No zippers to fail and BMA looks like an Anorak, not a glorified hooded sweatshirt. Just my take, I'm not knocking WW's quality, it is just my personal preference with gear. K.I.S.S. This is the point where I sound like everyone else, the quality is immaculate. After looking at the outside, I turned it inside out and the stitching is perfect just like the materials used. I wore it outside and the temps were probably in the 40's F, which is warm for this Rak but I'm a very fair skinned guy with psoriasis and the itch factor was very low with a short-sleeved T-shirt underneath. Yes, a bit of itch around my neck which I didn't notice after a few minutes and for the warmth factor this will provide, I can wear a neck gaitor/tube/scarf and that'd solve the slight itch at times. I'm 5'8" tall, 215lbs, so I'm not svelt, but I've lost 17 lbs in the past year and the large fits me perfectly once it is on. I have to donn it by reaching through both arms fully, then pulling the torso over me. It is snug until it is in place. So, if you're in my size category and you want to layer under it, go with an xl. I'm in coastal Nor-Cal and have no intention of layering under the anorak. Is the 100% wool anorak overkill for my area? Probably, but it is cool and wet here for three seasons and I'm tired of being cold in my own house... or paying PG&E $350US (or more) a month for heat. Money well spent on a quality garment. I might have to get the waxed canvas Rak next. P.S. I love that hat! P.P.S. Yes, I'm wearing the Loden while I watch the video and type this. lol
Loden used to mean a specific type of wool, the color was later associated because a lot of loden was that color. Still a good item, but a bit misleading.
I have to ask how everyone is able to wear wool? How are you keeping it from coming in contact with your skin at the wrists, neck and under your chin? Just the thought of a Hudson's Bay three point blanket makes me break out in hives. When i was in the CAF, I had to wear long underwear under my dress uniform. Not great on a sunny 90°F parade square.
One of these might be overkill as far as wearing one in the UK is concerned.. Very little though is mentioned about waterproofing. Unlike the more extreme colder places in Northern USA and Canada when we get cold weather it is very often wet with it. and our snow is invariably not the dry powdery kind we are given to believe other people in colder climates tend to get. So can someone with some knowledge or experience of this please tell me how without losing much of the breathability of wool would i best go about waterproofing one of these anoraks?
How do you guys keep them from shrinking? I'm very interested, but... I bought a military surplus wool parka, washed it in cold water with woolite, and it still shrunk. What's the secret? I want one, but don't want to be disappointed again.
It's true that you don't have to wash wool as frequently but you do still need to wash it. At a minimum once per season. So to my point you end up with either an anorak that you have to throw out because it's filthy or you're throwing it out because it shrinks.
Careful hunting in wool! I went out in a wool jacket where it started to rain. No problem except I smelled like a sheep making me very very appealing to a pack of coyotes! They came close but thankfully I was carrying a gun! No Joke..
Do you want to pay greedy fueled prices with basic non-china quality? then sure... but understand, thats it will cost you $50 in material.. youre just paying for someones ability to sew. Thats worth $400? learn to sew and make your own... america is going down the drain and THIS is part of the reason consumers and manufacturers buy from china.. its sad.. china ruined us and made us think this type of quality merits that price. what a world we live in.. i miss the good ol days, before china
Truer words have never been spoken . It's also given a massive strategic advantage to a totalitarian communist regime . As well as adding to landfill because stuff doesn't last 5 minutes . But the lefty environmentalists never seem to mention this .