In the recent past, Patagonia a brand of outdoor clothing announced offering fall/winter sales to saving 30% on limited merchandise from February 1 to February 20, 2013.
I've been using ski jacket and bibs for 10 years or over, so just looked for new one that were reasonably priced. Since I was in the market for Gore Tex shelled ski jacket and bibs or pants and canvassed a lot of shops on the net, it happened to me to find Patagonia's net shop in Japanese, unfortunately ski jacket and pants are not available in this sales saving 30 percents off.
Figure belows, Patagonia Men's Ultralight Down Hoody that is one of my favorites. To be frank, I have been used down jacket of Bear U.S.A. for over 10 years, too. Before out of stock of this Patagonia's jacket, I asked for my sizing advice at customer service by email. I'm 182cm tall, 70kg weight, 92cm chest, 84cm waist and 92cm sleeve, they advised me Medium was the best fit for me within 24 hours.
Patagonia very very disappointed me in sizing variation, because they have regular size only without longer size. Others brand LLBean and mont-bell have a very wide variation of sizing. Not only sizing but also color's variation very disappointed me, this jacket has no green color.
Yesterday February 9 receiving this jacket I was so shocked to scream, that's why this product was too being thinner than I could never expect. I wondered that this never protected me from dangerous coldness of winter in Nasu.
Today is very very sunny but very very cold.
The temperature is blow minus 6.4 centigrade in the morning.
It is distinctly and clearly visible on the top of Chaus-dake mountain. See the harmful gas on the side, can you.
Walking with my dog I never feel very cold.
And I never feel warm, too.
My first Patagonia is not too warm, not too cold for me. I hate Patagonia, because it's very expensive and what I get for money is inappropriate.
Good mark: Very compact, Lightweight, Small bag for storage included,
Low mark: Very expensive, Limited color choices, Not double zipper, Paypal could not be paid in Japan, but another country could.
