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Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2014 Preview: Winter "Technical" Apparel (Emphasis Added)
The current winter season garments from some of the most prominent outerwear brands that are “phenomenally” warm outerwear are — I personally believe — garments that these companies have never used themselves in cold weather. If they did, they would not have made them. These garments that I am referring too are quilted with one [...]
Keeping Your Head Warm Does Not Mean Your Feet Will Be Warm
For at least 50 years we have been told if you want to keep your feet warm “wear a hat”. I say if you want to keep your head warm, aside from wearing a hat, keep your feet warm.I hunted for many years in the Fossil Ridge Wilderness area of Colorado which is located north [...]
Are You A Cold Sleeper?
Over the many years that I have been manufacturing sleeping bags one of the most common occurrences that has been presented to me by people interested in buying a new sleeping bag is their statement to me that they are “cold sleepers”. They ask what I have that will keep them warm under this or [...]
More Traceability Of Down
The North Face Company (TFN) is following what Patagonia is doing with their traceability of down, also from cradle to grave. Only TNF has taken it much further. They want to have, and I quote, a “Responsible Down Standard that addresses animal welfare and traceability and will implement it across its global supply chain next [...]
ANOTHER GENIUS IN THE FIELD OF INSULATION
I received an online publication catering to the outdoor industry. The most recent issue had a story about Mountain Hardwear (MH) celebrating their 20th anniversary. While reading it I found out that they have a new super duper synthetic insulating material they are calling Thermal Q. Elite. I was intrigued, so I went to the [...]
All Sellers Of Sleeping Bags Except One Lie And All Sellers Of Insulation For Sleeping Bags Or Outerwear Except One Lie!
I have been a seller of insulations since May 1961 when I took my first job in the textile business. The company I worked for sold a nylon batting which was competing with the cotton waste used at the time for insulation in outerwear. We did not sell polyester fiberfill which was sold by quilters [...]
Wiggy's Will be on TV!
Sometime this winter the Made in America show starring John Ratzenberger of Cheersfame will once again have his show. I am pleased that I was contacted to let them come into the Wiggy's factory to film. The show will air sometime in the spring of 2014.John Ratzenberger’s AmericanMadeWe’re pleased to announce that Wiggy’s Inc. will [...]
Fire Retardant Underwear
About two years ago a Navy field surgeon noted that soldiers were getting worse wounds because the underwear they were wearing was melting like molten steel into the bodies from the heat generated by IED’s and bullet heat causing the fabric to fuse to the skin where it entered the body. The fabric used to [...]
Insulation Down?
I have recently embarked upon writing a book about my history in the business world that encompasses my education in the field of insulating mediums used for sleeping bags and outerwear. In order to write with authority about down I used my computer to research all about down for insulating purposes. What I read was [...]
Fishnet or Ventilating Underwear
Over the years I have written extensively about fishnet long underwear and why they are the unquestioned best first layer of clothing one can, or should, wear when the weather is cold. I first learned about the use of fishnet material when I read this section of Gerry Cunningham’s booklet How to Keep Warm published [...]