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Originally Posted by Sliver
Yeah man. I went to mec and bought the "warmest parka in the store" and was so cold in it that I returned it. Just said fata it, I guess parkas aren't warm and went back to layering up underneath my old parka, which was also supposedly super warm.
My wife bought me my CG for my birthday a couple years ago and it has been a game changer. I was a little self conscious in it at first because it feels slightly ostentatious and I don't particularly love attention-getting clothes, but I'm a full convert now. They're top of the line.
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Back in my field days, I bought a goose dawn-filled parka for $180 from Mark's Work Wearhouse rated at -50 degrees for the job in the Arctic. I still have it today. I have a few winter coats that are both fancier and more expensive than that one today, but none of them are as well-made, as well-designed and as warm as that one. I get paying higher price for better quality but you need to separate the real quality from brand-supplied myths about it. My wife has an $800 CG parka and it's nice, but its design, reliability and warmth are inferior to the one I have from Mark's. Although, CG has their highest-end red parkas priced at over $1,200 now I heard, so maybe those are much better, I don't know...
EDIT: Just checked their site out of curiosity, CG's Expedition and Snow Mantra Parkas are almost $2,000 and rated for -30 only. Wow.