Job sites destroy clothing. Concrete abrades fabric. Metal edges cut. Sparks burn holes. Kneeling, crawling, and squatting put stress on seams. A pair of regular jeans might last three months on a con...
My job puts me in conference rooms and on job sites, sometimes in the same day. The clothing I used to own didn't handle that. Suits got destroyed outdoors. Work clothes looked wrong in meetings. I sp...
Spring and fall are the unpredictable seasons. Morning starts at 40 degrees and afternoon climbs to 70. Cloud cover rolls in and drops the temperature 15 degrees in an hour. The forecast says partly c...
Everyone has been caught in rain without proper gear. The slow realization that you're getting wet. The denial that it will pass. The eventual soaking that takes hours to recover from. Once is enough ...
The instinct in hot weather is to wear less. Strip down to a t-shirt and shorts. Get as much skin exposed to air as possible. This works for about twenty minutes before the sun starts cooking you....
Cold kills through complacency. It rarely feels dangerous until it is. A guy dressed wrong for winter thinks he's just uncomfortable until his body temperature drops enough that he can't think clearly...
My first brass burn taught me to button my collar. The second one, down my shirt, taught me to wear tighter necks. The third one, inside my boot, taught me to tuck pants into boots or wear taller sock...
My first backpacking trip, I brought way too much. Two extra shirts "just in case." Heavy jeans because they were durable. Cotton socks because I hadn't learned yet. My pack weighed more than it neede...
The term "everyday carry" gets applied to knives and flashlights, but clothes are the original EDC. They're what you wear every single day, and they either support the rest of your carry or they fight...
Every hunting season, the big box stores fill their racks with camo patterns. Guys buy the pattern first and the performance second. I get it. Camo feels like hunting. But I've watched plenty of succe...