Men's Lightweight Down Jacket - Classic WardrobePiece - Light Weight Feather Jackets Coats Hi! I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of RealMen Real Style.
Today, I'm going to be talking about the lightweight down jacket.
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You can get that by just clicking on the link right below this video Let's go ahead and dive into it, the lightweightdown jacket.
As you can see, I have one on.
I don't know if it exactly matches the cardiganand tie and white dress shirt that I have on underneath, but it is something that isvery functional, a very useful piece in a man's wardrobe especially if you like to layerand if you're going to be in areas where it is cold and you value really the strengthsthat this piece of clothing brings to the table.
Let me go ahead and lay out the strengths.
By the way, fashion and style is not one of these.
It used to be probably back in the'70s, but since I would say '90s, this look has really been overplayed in cities, butlet me go ahead and talk about the strengths.
The strengths are it is warm.
This does agreat job.
Down is an excellent insulator and how it does that is actually with thesepockets right here.
These has a number of pockets and these pockets, they suck in airand they use down, which is if you're not familiar, you feathers and then right belowthe feather are down.
I'm not an ornithologist here, but I do understandI think the basics of it, and my understanding is they're not true feathers, but they arevery feather-like, much smaller, and they put them in here.
What this does, they createspace and the air comes in, the air is trapped, and air is an excellent insulator.
Air is an excellent insulator because it doesn’tallow heat to transfer very easily.
So in the same way that your cooler does a goodjob of keeping things cold or keeping things hot like a thermos, this does the same foryou.
It keeps in your body heat and it prevents the cold from going in and affecting yourcore.
So down, really hard to beat when it comes to insulation.
There are a few thingsthat can do it, but really for the cost, this is excellent.
Now let's talk about another thing that'sreally nice, lightweight.
So this jacket, I can tell you, is incredibly light.
It'sa bit loud, so if you're kind of a high-speed, low drag military guy or you're a Force Recon,Navy Seal, Delta Force, you probably don't want to be using this because it gives offa lot of sound.
You can probably hear that in the video, but it is incredibly lightweight.
So if you are going hiking, this could bean option assuming that you're going hiking in a dry area, and I'll talk about why, butif you're going to be hiking and there is going to be no rain for the foreseeable future,great piece of gear, incredibly light.
It will keep you warm.
Let's say you're out in Arizona.
You're hikingthrough the Grand Canyon at night in the winter.
This is a great piece of gear to take withyou also because it can be compressed down.
So during the day, it may be pretty warm andat night, you can pull this out because it sucks in the air and it forms those pockets.
In a sense, air is all over us, all around us.
So again, you can compress this very small.
Now, the containers that a lot of these arein, and in this one in particular, you can see this one actually is water-resistant.
I'm not sure if it's fully waterproof, but I know it's water-resistant.
So another thingabout these jackets, they usually use a lot of synthetic material on the outside, so prettygood at water just rolling off.
The other thing is you're going to see theseare usually made in bright colors.
Of course, there are parkas and other things that usedown and they use more drab colors, but a lot of the garments in this area, you're goingto see maybe with very bright colors.
This is good for safety reasons.
So you'reout hiking and you get lost, all of a sudden, you're a lot easier to spot from an airplane,or if you're out walking on a trail and it's hunting season -- I would advice just notgoing out into the woods during hunting season especially here in Wisconsin -- but a brightcolor like this is going to separate you from the animals.
We've talked about compressible.
We've talkedabout basically warm.
Now, let's talk about the negative things.
The first thing, andI alluded to this, if you get down wet, it loses its insulating properties and it takesa long time to dry out, so down is not a good thing even if it's water-resistant.
If youfall into a lake or you fall into a river or you get drenched on, you could end up witha jacket that's very heavy and is not insulating at all, so that is a negative aspect.
Another one, and I touched this at the beginning,these have been overplayed since the '90s.
And what you've seen, it used to be that ifyou're wearing something like this, you are actually going outdoors.
You are maybe fromthe Seattle area.
You are from Colorado.
Now, you see them all over.
It means that you canwalk through any of the major cities and instead of men wearing stylish gears, most guys looklike they're basically packed to go climb Mount Everest or Mount McKinley or something.
And bright colors, they are not stylish.
It'sjust a bit too much screamy.
Also with the down -- let me put my arms up here -- it reallydoes not flatter the figure, so even if you've got a pretty good size chest, you exercise,your waist, you've got the six packs, no one's going to see it.
I mean, you might as wellhave a keg underneath this jacket because you basically look like a marshmallow.
Another thing, it's hard to adjust.
A lotof other pieces of men's wear you can adjust.
This one is a bit harder even for a seamstressor tailor to bring in, so if it doesn’t fit properly, it's going to be hard to adjustthat, and even on the sleeves simply because they use a lot of -- right here on these sleeves,they've got an elastic around the wrist, which is supposed to help keep in heat, but it'sgoing to be hard for a seamstress to shorten or lengthen.
In fact, she can't even lengthenthese sleeves.
So no shape to the body, if they get wet,it loses insulation, so those are the negatives, but you saw there are a lot of positives.
For the right man, this could be an essential wardrobe piece, but for some of you, there'sreally no room for this.
I like to keep something like this tight, wrapped up inside my truckfor an emergency jacket to be able to pull out, but that's probably about it for my use.
Okay guys, this is the lightweight down jacket.
Let me know what you think down on the comments below and I will see you in the next video.
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