What's so great about North Face jackets?

[mlh1981]

Is it more of a stylistic thing, or do they keep one exceptionally warm, moreso than any other jacket?

I see them everywhere. I live on a college campus, and it seems like more than 50 percent of the kids hear wear North Face religiously.

Just out of curiosity, I was looking on the North Face website, and wowza, their products are expensive!

[Posterize246]

I remember when I worked at Dick's Sporting Goods they were one of the hottest items to steal, yet I never saw anyone wearing them in public. :confusedshrug: My friend moved to Tennessee for 2 years though and he said that's all that was worn there.

[AtomSmasher]

They were a staple of hip hop culture at one time. When that fad died down I started wearing them. They are really warm, durable, good quality which you just don't find a lot of products like that these days. They are quite expensive though, but I will pay for quality.

North Face outlet's are great. I bought a jacket for 80 bucks that was marked down from 220.

[vapid]

Why did hip hop culture adopt durable weather clothing items such as Timberlands and North Face?

[JayGuevara]

Apparently they're pretty damn warm, but they're kinda like Mac's and the like, arguably more of a status symbol than a product. :confusedshrug:

I was looking at a new winter jacket a month or two ago, cuz the zipper on mine doesn't work and it's pretty old, and I did happen to look at some North Face's, and they seemed pretty damn warm and cozy and shit, but they were like 300 dollars.

I'd much rather keep it real and rock a Carhartt for 75 bucks instead.

[JayGuevara]

Why did hip hop culture adopt durable weather clothing items such as Timberlands and North Face?

Cuz it's so cold in the D (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aktLRiWXfqg) :confusedshrug:

[Randy]

North Face really does make a high quality product. Extremely overpriced, but they do keep you very warm and insulated. I have a very light fleece jacket from them and if the temperature is between 35-45 it still keeps me warm, even with just a t-shirt on underneath. Their retail prices are stoopid high though, not worth it.

[StroShow4]

Why did hip hop culture adopt durable weather clothing items such as Timberlands and North Face?

Maybe because hip hop originated in the North East, and it's f@cking cold up here in the winter.

[OneMoreSucka]

It's a midwest thing. They're all over Colorado and it's pretty pathetic at this point.

[StroShow4]

I'd much rather keep it real and rock a Carhartt for 75 bucks instead.

I had no idea people outside of Maine wore Carhartt. Carhartt is where it's at according to all these hicks. I wouldn't touch the stuff with a 10 foot pole.

[AtomSmasher]

I had no idea people outside of Maine wore Carhartt. Carhartt is where it's at according to all these hicks. I wouldn't touch the stuff with a 10 foot pole.
We wear that stuff in Philly, especially the beanies. I've got like 3 of em!

[StroShow4]

We wear that stuff in Philly, especially the beanies. I've got like 3 of em!

Interesting. I've always considered it the redneck's version of Timberland. :oldlol: :confusedshrug:

[AtomSmasher]

Interesting. I've always considered it the redneck's version of Timberland. :oldlol: :confusedshrug:
definitely a working class tone to them :D

[Juges8932]

North face is pretty big here in Florida. A lot of my friends wear it. I never really got into North Face. IDK why, just never really appealed to me.

[JayGuevara]

I had no idea people outside of Maine wore Carhartt. Carhartt is where it's at according to all these hicks. I wouldn't touch the stuff with a 10 foot pole.

Here they're loved by the misplaced rednecks, and in the inner city. But they're relatively cheap, durable, and pretty damn warm.

I've always had this theory though, it seems like the Nascar loving big truck driving Carhartt wearing cats almost always have the tan ones, and then the minorities almost always have the black ones. :confusedshrug:

[emsteez forreal]

hip-hop culture? you're probably thinking parkas. we're talking fleeces.

[OneMoreSucka]

The Northface parkas are :pimp:

[nbastatus]

not many people wear them here in california, but i remember living in seattle, half of the people in the school must own either a north face jacket or a north face backpack. the backpack costs like $120 dollars or more. it's really overpriced.

[lefthook00]

"Take her Gucci bag and the North Face off her back, jab her if she act." - Biggie

[vapid]

There is a really nice Carhartt shop in Covent Garden (London). :oldlol:

[DeuceWallaces]

I love how everyone claims they're a great durable product. Like walking around in the city somehow lets you understand this. I work as a field ecologist and have spent thousands of hours doing field work. They're still pretty good, but they don't make them like they used to. They wear out too quickly compared to my Marmot, Patagonia, and Mountain Hardware gear.

Only good thing about TNF is they've been accepted by pop culture so they flood Ebay with solid prices that you can't find for Patagonia, Marmot, and Mountain Hardware.

[Hawker]

Is it more of a stylistic thing, or do they keep one exceptionally warm, moreso than any other jacket?

I see them everywhere. I live on a college campus, and it seems like more than 50 percent of the kids hear wear North Face religiously.

Just out of curiosity, I was looking on the North Face website, and wowza, their products are expensive!

Nice sweaters to wear when the weather is cold but not that cold.

I have one and I owned a Columbia fleece as well. I lost the Columbia one. I've had both since high school.

Frats go overboard with the northface stuff though. They get vests, wool fleeces and rainbow colored fleeces.

[boozehound]

its an image thing. Sure, the coats are warm, but not more so than any other well made winter coat. its all about looking the look. FTR carhart makes great insulated work clothes. Sure, many people use carhart as an indicator of social association, but they are really functional clothes for those of us that work outside in shitty weather.

[IBLEEDGREEN20]

i have a north face jacket, it keeps me pretty warm. i actually wear my dual layered columbia winter jacket more, though.

expensive at *****.. but works well.

its wicked cold in new hampshire in the winter, lemme tell you. but ive lived here my entire life so i am used to new england winters. people move up here then bitch about the snow every year, ive never understood that theory.

[vapid]

I love how everyone claims they're a great durable product. Like walking around in the city somehow lets you understand this. I work as a field ecologist and have spent thousands of hours doing field work. They're still pretty good, but they don't make them like they used to. They wear out too quickly compared to my Marmot, Patagonia, and Mountain Hardware gear.

Only good thing about TNF is they've been accepted by pop culture so they flood Ebay with solid prices that you can't find for Patagonia, Marmot, and Mountain Hardware.
Whats the most weird animal/vegetation/geological thing you've encountered?

[DeuceWallaces]

I guess Killdeer and Japanese Hogweed.

[LJJ]

It's all about overcoats.

[SayTownRy]

There is a really nice Carhartt shop in Covent Garden (London). :oldlol:

it's a different carhartt in europe from what i understand.

the euro carhartt is pretty sweet actually and more youth/urban inspired, whereas carhartt here is more geared towards work clothing.

[pete's montreux]

GORE-TEX sh*ts all over everything mentioned in this thread so far.

[kentatm]

They were a staple of hip hop culture at one time. When that fad died down I started wearing them

when the hell was that? when I was in high school they were considered a preppy thing.

[emsteez forreal]

when the hell was that? when I was in high school they were considered a preppy thing.
like i said, i think he's referring to parkas, but the OP is referring to fleeces.

[DeuceWallaces]

GORE-TEX sh*ts all over everything mentioned in this thread so far.

Every brand mentioned in this thread makes GORE-TEX products. There, I just shit all over you.

[Nanners]

Every brand mentioned in this thread makes GORE-TEX products. There, I just shit all over you.
:roll: :roll: :roll:



When I was growing up, North Face is what the rich/preppy kids wore over their abercrombie shirts. They make quality sh!t but its expensive as hell. That said, basically every company that makes high quality outdoor gear is expensive as hell.

[macmac]

In Montreal, it's all about Canada Goose. The market got oversatured but they're the warmest, nicest fitting winter coats. Goose feathers and fox fur keeps your a$$ warm in the great white north

[pete's montreux]

Every brand mentioned in this thread makes GORE-TEX products. There, I just shit all over you.

:(

Did not know.

[rosonviyavong]

Over here in BC a bunch of nammers where those jackets

[bdreason]

If 50% of the kids in your area are wearing them... don't. Nobody respects a sheep.

[macmac]

If 50% of the kids in your area are wearing them... don't. Nobody respects a sheep.

http://ic2.pbase.com/u44/rtwo/small/40299595.CoolSheep.jpg

Sayy whut?

[flipogb]

If 50% of the kids in your area are wearing them... don't. Nobody respects a sheep.
please tell me you don't have an ipod , cuz I would lol at your statement if you did.

[AtomSmasher]

over 50% of people wear clothes where I come from :lol

[bdreason]

please tell me you don't have an ipod , cuz I would lol at your statement if you did.

I don't have an Ipod.

Obviously you can't always avoid being just like everyone else... but if you have the choice, try something different.

There's already way too much uniformity in our society.

[thejumpa]

Back in JH and HS, all the preppy cats wore that shit. I swore I never would because it looked so.......yeah, "sheepish".

[Quizno]

that's a crazy coincidence. i went out and a bought a North Face hoodie last night. i wasn't looking for that clothing brand specifically but i really wanted a hoodie and that was the only one i could find. didn't know they were popular

[DeuceWallaces]

I don't have an Ipod.

Obviously you can't always avoid being just like everyone else... but if you have the choice, try something different.

There's already way too much uniformity in our society.

All you're doing is conforming to unconformity just for the sake of being different and not what you want or feel is right. No better or worse than all TNF jacket wearing d-bags.

[AtomSmasher]

Am I a D-bag because I wear a Northface jacket that I bought at a outlet?

:(

[DeuceWallaces]

Am I one because I wear my TNF Gore-Tex pants every time I work out in the pouring rain? FYI, better prices on Ebay than outlet.

[OneMoreSucka]

Am I a D-bag because I wear a Northface jacket that I bought at a outlet?

:(
Definitely. Now you're just another sheep, sheeping your way through society. FIGHT THE MAN, MAN! DON'T BE A SHEEP!!!!!!!

[AtomSmasher]

Getting my sheep on! lol

I'll have to check ebay - i like trying stuff on though.

I wear a lot of Eastern Mountain Sports too when I'm doing stuff in the cold. They make decent enough gear.

[BankShot]

If 50% of the kids in your area are wearing them... don't. Nobody respects a sheep.

Not doing something solely because many others do it = Doing something because many others do it

Like another poster said, conforming to unconformity just for the sake of being difference is the same concept as being a sheep.

:rolleyes:

[bdreason]

Not doing something solely because many others do it = Doing something because many others do it

Like another poster said, conforming to unconformity just for the sake of being difference is the same concept as being a sheep.

:rolleyes:


That's why you mix it up, be an individual. Wear clothes because you like them... not because everyone else is wearing them. If you like North Face jackets, then by all means, buy one... but the OP clearly stated he was interested in North Face jackets because everyone else is wearing them.

And yes, I realize being strictly counter-culture is sheepish as well. My point was only to buy what you really like, and don't let society dictate what you wear, or who you are.

[DeuceWallaces]

Getting my sheep on! lol

I'll have to check ebay - i like trying stuff on though.

I wear a lot of Eastern Mountain Sports too when I'm doing stuff in the cold. They make decent enough gear.

EMS is awesome. Great gear at great prices, but most people who wear that shit are straight posers. Totally unnecessary.

Maybe you're not a sheep, but are you a poser? Do you really need that shit?

[flipogb]

I don't have an Ipod.

Obviously you can't always avoid being just like everyone else... but if you have the choice, try something different.

There's already way too much uniformity in our society.
good post