01/07/2026
My kingdom for a seam allowance.....🤦♀️
I'm sure this multi million dollar very famous outerwear company is just protecting its shareholders the best way it can.......by using razor thin seam allowances (this was less than 1/4" 😳) and installing the cheapest, low quality nylon coil zippers money can buy....it sure would have been nice to have a proper half inch at least 🫠 I guess I shouldn't complain, because they're keeping me in business year after year but holy heck it's difficult to work with barely any room to catch the layers.
How can we as consumers protect our own pocketbooks when these products are designed to fail? The CEO with a third house and a yacht really likes the practice of using a lousy zipper and making you either buy a new one in a year or two or saving that extra little bit of fabric at the factory. The CEO doesn't care about you, they want you to buy and replace as often as possible.
Fight back. Choose quality over cheap manufacturing whenever possible, and trust me when I say that's becoming more and more rare. Repair your jacket, have a good quality zipper installed if it inevitably fails. Now you have a jacket with a zipper that will last you another 5, 6 maybe 10 years. That $200+ you don't spend buying a new jacket every 2 or 3 years adds up too.
Repair, restore, refurbish, upcycle. It's the future of sustainability, not constantly buying to replace!
