Appleseed

5 hours ago, FelixRevolt said:

I’m after a couple more Veilance t shirts in medium. Can anyone do a better price than the official site? Thanks thanks.

Can pretty much always find this stuff on sale @ retail end of season-

21 hours ago, hanzen1138 said:

Either that, or release archive pieces as new ones. J4 becoming J111, J10 becoming J97, J46 becoming J103…

Am still confused by this choice - feels like a lame marketing gimmick-

Fun fact, he used to be on SuFu ^

21 hours ago, hanzen1138 said:

old jackets getting renamed continues

This bothers me more than it should. Feels so lazy and disconnected from the trajectory....

Has anybody seen copy for J101? Curious as to how its differentiated from the old GT-J4 - looks identical from the few preview photos...

11 hours ago, nathan_ said:

"MIC bad" is just as ignorant a take as "plastic bad" so I can't say that's I'm surprised the two were said in the same statement.

And yet, for many people, both of those are fundamentally true. Perhaps not by your understanding, but at face value those words cover a lot of ground...

55 minutes ago, DROVES said:

just the eye of nostalgia.

NOT just the 'eye of nostalgia' - fundamental difference in the politics of artisanal, low-yield MIE vs. the playing into PRC factory game.

8 hours ago, Inkinsurgent said:

Yeah, i'm quite aware they've been updating old designs - i'm talking about just straight up dropping the SS-J2 or P11-CH again. Kind of a factory version of Hanon's archive drop.

Yes, the 'updates' and price increases are kinda missing the point

Perhaps ppl see J29 as the current J11, but they're really quite different jackets...

-and for the record, I'd prefer small-batch CZ babičkas-made stuff over the MIC deluge.

...and the 3A-1 wasn't designed to hold a laptop in the first place.

IIRC, that season was a Paclite hood.

Reversible beanies too-

5 hours ago, eidolarr said:

Where is the infinium in the J83-WS?

Would hope now that some of the dust has settled around the Windstopper re-brand and Shake-Dry becoming it's own thing that the nomenclature is standardized (re: both Gore and ACR). Any new -WS piece is Infinium-membrane'd (my understanding). Gore is still doing a lot of other things under the Infinium-umbrella, making it somewhat hard to know what you're getting based on copy only....

On 4/10/2021 at 12:24 AM, beepy said:

I think he’s saying he was hesitant to use militaristic.

Oh I got that - just using the adjective incorrectly. Totally agree that 'military-inspired streetwear' is dumbed down enough to get the gist across to most ppl who would care- 

2 hours ago, CountZatara said:

describe Acronym as militaristic?

You're using that word incorrectly.

Could pick up any one of the Blue Ant entries and come across suitable descriptions that don't include 'techwear' or 'cyberpunk'!

^ Fuck those double-dippers

Dressed by Mother Wang

Love my Voronoi, but they're getting a little long in the tooth. Sizing up on the Convex is an interesting idea; will keep that in mind!

More pieces I'm excited about this season than....I don't know - in quite a while. Ordered one of the Demlo pieces and now waiting for the rest of the stuff to get stocked-

@Inkinsurgent, no love for the Convex LT? Will be giving that a shot-

If heat-activated seam tape has failed once, it's going to fail again (eventually). Sooner, by your method, than if repaired properly w/ (N) adhesive.

1 hour ago, Yan90 said:

i've done this many times

Do it right, do it once.

That's not delam., just failing seam adhesive. Use a Gore-Tex specific product (McNett makes many), tho I'd try to actually get the seam tape re-adhered instead of 'patching' over.

If that's an older jacket, then I'd say there's not much cause for concern. Doesn't appear to be any soiling, etc.

3 hours ago, knucks said:

Im a lil surprised they dont use RIRI but then again that probably would jack up cost even more. 

Not gonna pretend I know the whole RiRi catalog, but I suspect this is a design/association choice.

1 hour ago, Flipflop214 said:

From the consensus

Curious as to how much difference there is in treating the new nylon vs. the old cotton-based Epic fabrics? I've got a few ACR pieces that are Epic (but not 'encapsulated nylon') and they get the same cleaning cycle as any Stotz/Ventile/Supermarine piece.

Well, patching from a burn is a bit different than repairing a jacket suffering from delam., no? If delamination has started on a panel, it's only gonna get worse over use+time. A little patch (even well done by Rainy Pass) isn't addressing the issue of the membranes separating.

1 hour ago, denimjeans said:

when it does end up delaminating as years go on, there are certified gt repair centers

Has anyone actually had an ACR jacket repaired for GTX delam.? Only way to do this is to have the entire fabric panel replaced and a new one sewn in, and given the complexity of most ACR patterns/detailing...