outerwear choosing a fall jacket modern fabrics

Choosing a fall jacket: Modern fabrics offer many choices Choosing a fall jacket: Modern fabrics offer many choices
When did putting on a jacket get so complicated? Not so long ago, there were two basic kinds of jackets: waterproof shells nice article on technology options for outwear of sport folks.

Mike Brand, in a Mountain Hardwear Ozone jacket, packs up his paraglider at Tiger Mountain has a photo.

Good blurb on for all outer wear: primary factor in how it's used is a jacket's fabric — whether it's flexible, waterproof, windproof, etc. — and fabric innovations have led the marketplace. So we've broken out results by fabric type, with a listing of manufacturers and jacket models we tested for each fabric:

The fabric: Schoeller Dryskin Extreme

The jackets:

• Cloudveil Serendipity

• Cloudveil Black Ice

• Marmot Sphere

• MEC Ferrata

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