Ventile (and similar) cotton is essentially hand-made fabric, involving painstaking detail from selecting the cotton and to setting up the weaving process; hence the high cost. It IS indeed nice stuff (if you can afford it). But because of the high cost, I have to think of Ventile as being like really special bicycle tubing, which by itself is nice, but is really only as good as the finished product. And so when I finally bite the bullet and plop down many hundreds on a Ventile jacket, it better have everything I want in a jacket, because I'm literally gonna sleep in this baby.... Hood, waist drawstring, pockets galore, plenty of room for under layers, and a certain all-round style, ... all these things gotta be just right. It's nice to see Riv making a quality jacket like this, and there are already some really nice Ventile jackets out there already (at similar prices) being sold by Wiggy's, Howies, Hilltrek, etc...
And there are other materials (like wool and conventional cotton) that can serve most of my needs.... but I will be saving my pennies for a fine cotton jacket... one day. On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:22:14 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > I think the new English Jacket looks pretty swank. Who is getting one > from the pre-sale? > > I'm definitely going to try one on at the Grand Opening Party in > December. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
