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re: What does wearing patagonia say about you?
Posted on 12/1/16 at 5:45 pm to Sleeping Tiger
Posted on 12/1/16 at 5:45 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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there's a stronger stigma against North Face, so people often side with Patagonia.
I have a strong stigma against Patagonia now. I hate how all these goobers wearing North Face 5 years ago have latched on to Patagonia and have ruined it as a future brand.
I can't wait for all the Figs to start wearing Marmot.
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Posted on 12/1/16 at 5:50 pm to boogiewoogie1978
It's funny, I was wearing Patagonia fleece decades ago, and North Face down jackets and vests back in the early 70's when hardly anyone knew the name outside of outdoor and cold weather workers and nature enthusiasts. Fast forward 40+ years later and the two brands are hip, go figure.
Posted on 12/1/16 at 6:18 pm to Chazzy McRamzee
I have a down Marmot jacket that I got from Dirt Cheap for 50 bucks. GREAT jacket.
Posted on 12/2/16 at 8:32 am to BluegrassBelle
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I find the older I get, the less of a frick I give about wearing what's "in" and more so about what's comfortable and lasts.
This is how "mom jeans" become a thing
Posted on 12/2/16 at 4:19 pm to Tidemeister
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It's funny, I was wearing Patagonia fleece decades ago, and North Face down jackets and vests back in the early 70's when hardly anyone knew the name outside of outdoor and cold weather workers and nature enthusiasts. Fast forward 40+ years later and the two brands are hip, go figure.
Eddie Bauer was the thing 25 years ago.
Posted on 12/2/16 at 10:04 pm to RogerTheShrubber
LL Bean is beginning to pop up more often now. Eddie Bauer seems to be as well. My wife just bought a jacket from them.
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:06 pm to Chazzy McRamzee
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I have a strong stigma against Patagonia now. I hate how all these goobers wearing North Face 5 years ago have latched on to Patagonia and have ruined it as a future brand.
I can't wait for all the Figs to start wearing Marmot
Marmot's lower quality. That won't happen.
But yes, once North Face became a punchline more people switched to Patagonia -- the same people that caused North Face to become a punchline.
Everything peaks and falls, and maybe rebounds.
Man buns were cool for a minute (like when Heath Ledgar did it), then too many losers got on it and then it become fricking horrific.
Really the person is what matters.
If Heath Ledgar had a man bun today it'd still look good on him. It wouldn't be that top bun gayness. It wouldn't be that soft ultra-fashionable shite that skinny jean dudes wear. It would be rugged and a little sloppy and cool. And it'd just be him being him.
Whenever you are making a put-on you're risking looking like a tool.
Guy who went to my high school made a South Butt brand with the North Face logo inverted, it blew up locally and on some college campuses -- North Face ended up buying it for 1 million flat to make it go away.
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Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:14 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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LL Bean is beginning to pop up more often now.
LL Bean is copying Patagonia. That colored mountain logo that got popular on the trucker hats and t-shirts with Patagonia written below it can now be found at LL Bean. They also copied the Better Sweater to a T. Not a lot of respect for that level of copycatting.
They do make a quality boot and still do it in Maine, bucking the trend to sell out and ride the wave of a good reputation by making once quality products with cheaper materials in sweat shop countries.
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:24 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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ridge
please... ain't no mountains in loozianna
Posted on 12/2/16 at 11:28 pm to Funky Tide 8
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literal holes in them
what about figurative holes?
Posted on 12/3/16 at 12:04 am to TigerOnTheMountain
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LL Bean
LL Bean and Eddie Bauer were the primary mail order companies in the late 80's and early 90's. You still see many of their products out there.
Posted on 12/3/16 at 3:34 am to TeLeFaWx
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It means you care about the latest trends, I guess?
I don't think of Patagonia as one of the latest trends.
I was wearing Patagonia stand up shorts and fleece pullovers when I was at Bama in the early 90s.
I have one of the pullovers from college that I still wear.
A greek t-shirt, Patagonia stand-up shorts, and Birkenstocks was my everyday, go to class uniform.
I wish I could still get away with wearing those shorts. I loved those things. But I'm too old to prancing around in those things now.
Posted on 12/3/16 at 12:27 pm to BamaChick
*This is the type of thing I have a lot of interest in psychologically. It's a really common thing. Just because YOU had Patagonia a long time ago, and a picture of old shorts to prove it, doesn't have anything to do with the clear uptick across the board, and the obvious shift from former North Face wearers as consumers try to avoid the stigma attached to it -- which ultimately will/has transferred the same stigmas to their new choice.
Posted on 12/3/16 at 12:45 pm to Sleeping Tiger
frick the stigma. I still wear the north face from time to time. But again, I actually visit places that require technical gear that needs to work as designed or I may die 
Posted on 12/3/16 at 12:47 pm to BamaChick
Find us a picture of you wearing these or GTFO
Posted on 12/3/16 at 12:58 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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frick the stigma. I still wear the north face from time to time. But again, I actually visit places that require technical gear that needs to work as designed or I may die
Like in my Heath Ledgar man-bun analogy -- the person is the most important aspect of any of this.
If you're real and it's not a 'put-on' you're probably not going to look like a douche. If it is, then you are.
Posted on 12/3/16 at 2:01 pm to hogfly
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That it's almost getting cold enough to put the Yeti away for the Winter.
Came here to say this. I've never been put off by Patagonia.
But yeti gets my goat. Credit them for somehow marketing a cooler into a lifestyle image (that goes on the back of your truck window), but they are hideously over priced.
I put them in the category of Apple. No fricking way.
Posted on 12/3/16 at 3:58 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Isn't that in Argentina, or maybe Chile?
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