The North Face: Overrated?

KieferFan69

Those coats look like something a business studies student would wear as he twirls around a rubber johnny in his pocket with his fingers hoping to score a girl outside the aula maxima in early spring emmet

eviltimeban

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118819662#Comment_118819662

You wear what you want, man. You can be early 90s retro. Get some oxblood docs, roll up your jeans, grow out your fringe, and put on some Cure or Stone Roses.

salmocab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118819913#Comment_118819913

rolled up jeans and ox blood docs were not something kids into stone roses wore, you’ve got your sub cultures muddled up.

KieferFan69

I do have fringe, and I think the look you describe is still hip and will come back.

It should not need to be said… but, nobody should be bullied because of their clothing choices on this messageboard

murpho999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118818207#Comment_118818207

Not true. FCUK is now more known as French Connection and nothing to do with Mike Ashley's vile Fraser/Sports Direct Group.

Climbing, hiking, running, cycling, skiing, or any non-team sport, especially anyone who thinks they are taking it seriously seems to be full of the types who love to be in the know about some cult, expensive, hard to get clothing brands that they and only a handful of their mates know about.

It's a sort of weird subculture.

Feels like there’s lads talking to themselves on this thread. Sorry I know we aren’t supposed speculate on that but there you go

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118819968#Comment_118819968

Whoa, no one is being bullied. Opinions are being given on, certain, items of clothing.

If it turns out that you happen to “sport” these, particular, items you can either take what’s said onboard or disregard.

It’s just clothes, K, no matter how démodé.

MadYaker

Their more expensive stuff is good. I bought one of their Apex Flex goretex jackets for around €300 a few years ago and it's still perfect. I can be out in the rain for hours and no water gets through, it's comfortable and breathable, probably the best rain coat I've ever owned. Their cheap stuff for less than €100 is not worth buying.

KieferFan69

The north face jacket - well I associate it with those shaven head brothers that made techno, anyone that has a turntable will know them, they made electronica before disappearing off the scene in the late 9Os/00s

These were not hikers but they brought that style into the mainstream, same with black hoodies (I think)

Suckit

Norrøna Jacket, two pants and socks since 2005.

Products for life I reckon.

North Face jacket since 2016. Zip issues, inner lining not great.

eviltimeban

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118819953#Comment_118819953

Well I was around at the time and knew plenty of people who wore those clothes and also liked the Stone Roses. I'm not talking about the skin head / braces / ska look of the 70s and 80s, just a general wearing of docs and rolled up jeans.

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820379#Comment_118820379

€300 for a jacket is for people who don't understand how to get value for money

MadYaker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118822257#Comment_118822257

Or else it’s for people who understand what quality items are and are prepared to pay for them. Just because something isn’t cheap doesn’t mean it isn’t good value. Ive had it 4 years and it’s still like new.

ablelocks

or you go to the kildare outlet and buy the 300 jacket for 70 when it's the end of april and they are looking to shift the winter stuff out the door

(assuming the rrps are correct, the jacket was actually worth the 300 and wasn't an outletized, cheaper material version, and that it fits you properly)

MadYaker

Most reduction I ever saw on those jackets was down to around €260. You can't get goretex jackets that cheap anywhere. They bring out a new one every year but it's the same thing.

_gir

North face still do good gear like the fleece and triclimate coats, they just also have other products aimed at streetwear that the kids love. Something for everyone IMO

Cookie_Monster

The best "North Face" product I've ever bought was out the back of a dodgy mall in central Shanghai, and less than 1/5 the cost of the real thing. Its lasted better than the few other real NF bits I've bought over the years too.

John_Rambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118822257#Comment_118822257

Depends on the person and the usage.

Spend four hours working on a mountain with very cold & damp conditions where after a climb you're not moving much and you'll realise the value of a €300+ coat.

Spend eight seconds running from your heated car to Starbucks in a €300+ coat & you'll be confused on boards.ie typing about people that don't understand how to get value for money.

andekwarhola

Have a jacket of theirs that has served me well as a relatively warm waterproof jacket the last 6-7 years for when I'm out walking or coaching in the winter and autumn,

Depends on what you want it for.

I live in Ireland. I'm not looking for heavy duty gear for an Arctic expedition.

Is the subliminal slant of this thread about the fact that the brand has become popular with working class kids in recent years?