RE: [Paddlewise] Fashion Sense

Wouldn't want to show my Washington (DC, not the rainy place) cynicism or anything, Craig -- so I'm sure that the Washington street vendors who sell piles and piles of "North Face" goods all do so in complete confidence that their wares are genuine.  But "North Face" jackets are the "in" winter wear in this part of the world, too, and seem to be most popular with urban survivors.  It is fortunate that whatever poly is used to fleece the buyers, it is most stretchy, thus effectively circumnavigating the girths of the local wearers -- not likely to be kayakers.

Joq

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From: owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net] On Behalf Of Craig Jungers
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 1:21 PM
To: Paddlewise Paddlewise
Subject: [Paddlewise] Fashion Sense

Have you, like me, noticed how many people are wearing clothes by North Face? Is this some fad I missed out on completely? Even the shoppers in Wal-Mart (uh... I never shop there... my wife made me go in.... I shop at Goodwill and Salvation Army) wear North Face clothes. It must drive the Wal-Mart folks nuts.

To my daughter's everlasting shame, I have no fashion sense at all and am happiest wearing an old sweater with holes in the sleeves that I got for Christmas in 1972. And I swear that I saw a teenage girl prancing around the mall in my old ripped and torn jeans. My wife went for the innocent look but when I got back home I couldn't find them anywhere. So there went the only possible fashion sense garment that I had.

For some reason I am on the email list of www.backcountry.com and they seem to be having some sort of sale where they are offering tons of discontinued bits of clothing by North Face. Since my 1972 sweater is still perfectly good I have no need of this information but thought that there might be some on Paddlewise who could benefit by giving it a look. North Face does, apparently, make some stuff that is suitable for paddling and/or as a layer under your drysuit.

I dunno if the prices are good and I have absolutely no link with backcountry.com. They, on the other hand, seem to feel that they have a link with me and are sending me friendly emails. It must have been the Kokatat
SeaO2 PFD I finally broke down and bought last month. I hope that's not on sale... I'm afraid to look.

Luckily 1972 sweaters with holes in the sleeves have not as yet caught on with the teenage girls.

Caveat Paddler.


Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA
www.nwkayaking.net
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