Men's Variant Jacket

Dan English

Pagosa Springs, CO

Price

$279.00

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About this piece

The insulation piece that breathes where you need it to. Here's the problem with most down jackets: they put 800-fill everywhere, including your underarms. Great for warmth, terrible when you're moving. You overheat, sweat pools in the pit zone, and suddenly your insulation is working against you. The Variant Jacket solves this with strategic material placement. 800-fill goose down on your chest and back where you need maximum warmth-to-weight. Proprietary wool batting in the underarms where ...

About the artist

Dan English spent years in the outdoor industry watching brands ship production overseas and lose control of quality. In 2013 he moved to Pagosa Springs and started building a textile mill from scratch. Voormi's patented Core Construction — which weaves technical fibers directly into merino wool — was developed in-house because no existing mill could do it. The result is fabric that's warm like wool, abrasion-resistant like a softshell, and made entirely in Colorado.

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