Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-04 Thread Anne Paulson
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:11 AM, kps wrote: > > i've been thinking i might try the new Outlier women's daily riding > pant, but it might be tricky figuring out the sizing on that pant. > whatever i order will probably be > too small.  ;)  www.outlier.cc Someone mentioned that they thought Title N

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-04 Thread Anne Paulson
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > As I said, they appear to be catering to stick insects. I buy a lot of clothes at Title 9. I like their styles, I wish they would sell clothes for bigger women, because I'm at the upper end of their size range, but there is no way anyone

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-04 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steve Palincsar wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 11:45 -0800, beth h wrote: >> Yeah, well, I used to think so, too, until I started looking at the >> sizing charts for womens-specific bike clothing. >> When the largest chest size offered is a 40 and the largest hip si

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-04 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 11:45 -0800, beth h wrote: > Yeah, well, I used to think so, too, until I started looking at the > sizing charts for womens-specific bike clothing. > When the largest chest size offered is a 40 and the largest hip size > offered is a 32 (and they call THAT XL, btw!), it's down

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-04 Thread cyclotourist
Here are two reviews of some woolen sweaters: http://epicureancyclist.blogspot.com/2009/03/womens-wednesdays-in-search-of-perfect.html http://epicureancyclist.blogspot.com/2009/03/womens-wednesday-on-thursday-perfect.html Funny, I think everyone commenting on this thread has already read and the

RE: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-04 Thread Larry Powers
This is not just a problem for women. I am 6'1" and am just over 200lbs. There are a couple of clothing lines whose 2xl is not large enough for me. Who are they kidding. I haven't been following this thread so this may have been brought up already but my wife has had good luck with Terry

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-04 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Steve Palincsar wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 19:26 -0800, beth h wrote: >> Title Nine has some very nice stuff, but is generally a massive bummer >> if you're a woman of size. And according to their sizing charts, I >> apparently qualify as a woman of size. > > Th

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-04 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 19:26 -0800, beth h wrote: > Title Nine has some very nice stuff, but is generally a massive bummer > if you're a woman of size. And according to their sizing charts, I > apparently qualify as a woman of size. Then they must cater primarily to stick insects. You are many thi

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-03 Thread Anne Paulson
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:02 PM, David Hallerman wrote: > +1 from my wife, too...likes and loves Ibex upperwear, for cycling and the > rest of life, but has had problems with their shorts. > > Their smallest size women's shorts were too big on her, and she has strong > cyclist butt and thighs (not

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-03 Thread David Hallerman
+1 from my wife, too...likes and loves Ibex upperwear, for cycling and the rest of life, but has had problems with their shorts. Their smallest size women's shorts were too big on her, and she has strong cyclist butt and thighs (not skinny there). So if the smallest size was too big, that impli

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-03 Thread Seth Vidal
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM, cyclotourist wrote: > FWIW, My wife likes their uppers, but now their lowers. > My significant other wears A LOT of clothing from the Title-9 catalogue. Title-9 is one of the catalogues that makes me a bit envious. http://www.titlenine.com/ Excellent clothing

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-03 Thread cyclotourist
FWIW, My wife likes their uppers, but now their lowers. On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 5:01 AM, MichaelH wrote: > My wife would second Anne's recommendation of Ibex products. She > likes their shorts, arm & leg warmers for rides of more than an hour. > Michael > > On Jan 2, 11:02 pm, Anne Paulson wrot

Re: [RBW] Re: Question about women's riding clothes (not for me)

2010-01-02 Thread cyclotourist
My wife and I have loved Swobo products for the past two decades. Great products. Girlie stuff is here: http://www.swobo.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=1044 They have removable liners for the pants/shorts, and the jerseys are just marvelous... On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Justin August wrote: