That is more a rant than anything else, and a bit faraway from the dialogue of hiking, and hiking clothes for ladies. Sure I'd love to start a clothes company of my own which would also have it’s personal “social mission” so to speak. Clothing corporations targets are earning profits by concentrating on girls. In the process nearly all of clothes companies make the world worse for ladies. It is as if it is an agenda in opposition to girls. Probably most women’s kinds are designed and conceptualized by males from the drawing board to the final sewing together of the apparel item. The few girls who're within the women’s clothing design trade apparently are doing little or nothing to instigate a trend towards higher clothing designs for ladies who want practicality, dignity and operate in their clothes. And that's the place the dilemma is available in for a lot of girls who don’t care about “Looking younger” or “Being girly.” Women who just need functional, snug clothes are really underrepresented . Certain, a lot of people would say “Not so. Since lots of low-rise or pores and skin-tight jeans, and cleavage-revealing shirts and crotch-size shorts, and tastelessly-quick skirts are the form of clothes that in all probability nearly all of ladies buy (judging by the prominence and availability of such clothing) , then it means those are the types that will continue to be manufactured and moreover these sorts of “feminine styles” will make their approach into all sorts of women’s clothes, even those which are speculated to be for operate not style. ” So their women’s shirts are designed with “princess seams” and curve-enhancing stitches and many others. It is not the one clothes company that makes “active-women’s wear” that incorporates style into function. It brings us again to the place we began. As fairly a few women who posted here on “Hiking Lady” have said, they resort to men’s clothes for better match, higher comfort, better freedom of motion and higher sturdiness. I'd say that on the whole unisex sizing is one of the best method to go with some options that would assist accommodate people who might need a bit more hip or stomach (each men and women). The vast majority of women’s “active wear” just don’t have it. ’s clothing. Men’s sizes are larger even in terms of “small” sizes for men. I doubt that is impossible. On the whole, women can fit into men’s clothes this fashion. The scrubs had been provided by the facility. I recently was working in a analysis facility and was required to wear scrubs. I informed her that in relation to scrubs, a measurement small pant doesn't match me and it's strange because most small-size men’s pants fit me. The availability person mentioned she thought a size small would match me. The provision person said that it's because girls have hips and men don’t. I informed her that plainly a variety of small-sized males would find it onerous to slot in most small-sized scrubs too. What a lot of people seem to overlook is that some men do have fairly-outstanding hips and the majority of men’s clothes are meant for men with completely straight hips. Actually when males get older, of their 40s they very often develop larger hips. Years in the past, I recall a radio commercial for a particular type of Levis denims which have been meant for older males and it was stated that the options had more room in the hip and thigh. But men have a greater deal with regards to clothes. Women’s clothes is at all times made to incorporate style quite than perform. EMS and REI and Sierra Trading Put up, and Moosejaw, and Cabela’s and Sportsman’s Information, and numerous other such stores, or on-line shops have a few of the higher kinds of clothing meant for hiking and different out of doors actions. Brands such as Ex-Officio, Arctryx, The North Face, Sherpa, Marmot, Mammut, Mountain Hardwear, Columbia and numerous others. These brands tend to have the absolute best materials, and the most effective features. They have the most effective mixture of fabrics so as to be lightweight as potential for hot days and which might protect in chilly days with out plenty of bulk. They are likely to have SPF in-built to guard the wearer from the sun’s rays. I had to make use of a large dimension to have room for my shoulders and arms however then the part of the jacket that was under the waist bellowed out and just was uncomfortable to put on and simply had a very awkward look to it. But, I have seen such absurdly-cut jackets for ladies by The North Face. It was “merely” meant to reinforce the female kind while being “useful” for outside activity, or that's what the designers had in mind and but I need to surprise what they have been pondering by making a jacket like this. It felt tight and restricting once i moved. I don’t know how it ever got manufactured and possibly hundreds had been made and it appeared to be a waste of time and materials and it seemed as if the “quality control people” missed some major design flaws. I wish I wrote down the style number so that perhaps I might discover a hyperlink to it in the web and maybe you all can see for yourself. There are different women’s lively wear that is probably not as extreme however which nonetheless have enough lack of operate so that most active ladies just cannot use them. The Gap and Old Navy usually are not particularly for lively put on but they have small line of such clothing. I think that they are terrible in material and design. The Hole, Previous Navy, Modell’s, Target, K-Mart and other such shops, essentially solely have clothes product of cotton ( with a number of exceptions). Modell’s is supposed to be a “sports store” but it surely carries exercise clothes for ladies which is made by Nike, Addidas (and so forth) and though these are well-identified brand names, I find that they really put a lot vogue into clothing at the expense of function. They went out of business years ago however additionally they had clothing for girls that I found to be impractically designed. In New York City where I dwell there's one REI and two EMSs and one not-as-properly-recognized store in decrease Manhattan which sells all kinds of outside/camping/hiking gear and clothes. There used to be a store in NYC known as Herman’s and one other called Robbin’s. Removed from it. I've seen girls in these stores talking to sales associates and saying that they have looked everywhere for extra practical designs . There is a company that a number of you probably have heard of referred to as “Title 9.” They strictly make women’s active put on. There are numerous Modell’s and one Sports Authority, and a few Old Navy’s and It would appear that there are a number of shops that might have one thing for every woman. Guess what? It doesn’t work. The vast majority of their styles are meant to “enhance figures” and make the wearer “look feminine” whereas taking part in sports or partaking in rugged out of doors activities. Why do I at all times notice that the clothes that come the closest to being useful and rugged and practical are those which might be discontinued and replaced by those that aren’t? Their women’s bathing suits are actually ineffective. They're meant for women who have excellent figures , even who're professional fashions and the bathing fits are sexist in my view. They could proceed a certain type for several seasons or they might replace the fashion and never revive it. Why ought to any bathing swimsuit be “hi-cut” or like a thong and the highest be meant to reveal cleavage? Title 9 has had sure sorts of designs known as “Grab and Go” that means that the clothes are so virtually designed that you could simply grab them, throw them on, and walk out the door to exercise or do anything. Are you going to go swimming or browsing , or are you going to work in a “gentleman’s club” ? I want that it was as marketed to be. All through my life I've gone from retailer to retailer during sure instances of the 12 months on the lookout for the very best rugged and purposeful clothes for winter or summer. It is at bra and legging sets all times laborious to find something near what I need. It often goes for sneakers and slippers and different footwear too. I usually have to take whatever comes closest and that is usually in the men’s part. There are designs which I will go to my grave scratching my head over concerning why they have been made the way in which they had been.. I as soon as found some snug slip-ons made by Teva. But the absurd thing was that the soles were designed with fairly-deep grooves that were very closely spaced and so they have been all over the sole . Simply why aren’t sneakers and footwear made to be cleaned? They're the main piece of clothing that will likely be touching the ground and going via all sorts of disgusting stuff. I have had a fantasy of designing shoes which are meant to be cleaned and are straightforward to clean. I can’t for the life of me perceive why such a design was made. To enable climbing on rocky or uneven surfaces, and but it does not work on any form of foot put on like it works on a Jeep’s tires. I do know that hiking boot soles are made like a Jeep’s tires are made. Why hasn’t any clothing manufacturer noticed this? With footwear, small rocks and mud and leaves and branches (and so forth) get stuck in the grooves of hiking boot soles. With a Jeep’s wheels, the fixed and intense rolling of the tires signifies that lots of the debris can be hurled off. No human can create that kind of bodily force to continually power the mud and pebbles and debris to be hurled out of the shoe’s soles. The best way that the grooves are designed it only makes the soles laborious to scrub. It signifies that the grooves on the soles of hiking boots might be crammed up with debris and would not help much in helping the wearer to successfully climb; that is that if the grooves on the soles of hiking boots are actually meant to allow the wearer to climb. It seems to me that if the soles are fabricated from rubber there isn’t a need for such elaborately designed grooves that only acquire dirt. I wonder why there aren’t chemists and clothes technicians engaged on a better form of rubber that grips on all surfaces or grips better on rocky surfaces or wherever hiking shoes are used, and it will make it pointless to make grooves on the soles of footwear. I have noticed some unusual designs that do not contribute to operate. It seems to me that grooves are just placed on the soles of shoes for trend purposes. This goes for sneakers too. Lots of sneakers which would be good in design in different ways, have very impractically designed soles. As far as sweatpants , scrub pants , and different such kinds of pants, there are those which have “elastic waist” or “comfort waist” and there are these with drawstrings. Of course I'm not an professional in making footwear or shoe-soles and that i could possibly be incorrect , however I am enough of an skilled in wearing sneakers meant for energetic lifestyles and I think that a number of shoe manufacturers are specializing in the flawed thing. I wonder why any pant is designed with a drawstring when an elastic waist would make it pointless . Now-a-days a majority of drawstring-waist are made in order that the drawstring is stitched into the back of the pants waist area. I hate anything with a drawstring waist. I feel it makes the drawstring less effective and it defeats the purpose of the drawstring. Underwear: I have been in shops resembling Okay-Mart and Goal the place there are a big number of women’s underwear. It is difficult to find the kind of briefs that almost all of our grandmothers used to put on, not “hi-cuts,” not ” boy shorts,” not thongs. All are horrible in my opinion. I prefer consolation, sturdiness and straightforward-care. All that doesn't converse for me. Anything that gets stuck you-know-the place is unacceptable. I've been in the underwear section of malls and other stores (I must admit I never appeared in Victoria’s Secret but I don’t anticipate to find something practical there), and I've seen older ladies trying to find something that is age-appropriate and dignified and , again, sensible. There's little apart from these hello-cuts. See one of the links beneath for an article concerning the history of women’s underwear. Even “briefs” should not modest sufficient. It appears it has always been about bodily limiting women. That’s the way in which I take a look at it. Also one of the hyperlinks below lead to an article about how there will likely be a women’s like of clothes which will probably be impressed by “Barbie.” Isn’t this 2014? It means that the elastic is sewn into the “hem” of the legs and waist. The closest I've found to what I favor is a certain Jockey model temporary “Elance.” It has “banded” legs and waist which is the better form of design to get. Elastic that is merely sewn ONTO the waist and legs tends to be much less rugged and the stitching can come undone more simply . I should order a dimension bigger than I usually would in order that the waist would not be too tight. One major flaw with “Elance” is that the waist is designed to be tight. And, I don’t understand the real function of “athletic bras” the best way they're designed. I positive don’t care about “standing out.” ( I actually don’t in any case, and i don’t care). Bras meant for energetic lifestyles should hold them in, nothing extra. I have heard of bras meant to “lift and separate.” I've seen some feminine runners who seem like prime heavy and still they're very fast however I wonder if they may develop back problems later in life. I know that I is probably not addressing the wants of women born with certain sizes, or who've particular wants corresponding to after surgical procedure, but sport bras should be made to have enough snug tension to stop bouncing. There may be a necessity for bras that do what some jock straps are alleged to do. I wish to design shirts and vests with tension constructed into the correct space that might make bras pointless. It would be great for warmer weather and for simplicity, so that you don’t have to hassle with attaching a bra after which a shirt. Simply keep “them” from transferring. Just slip into your shirt (and other clothes ) and you may go out to stroll , jog or whatever. Why isn’t there such a factor? I feel I discussed in one in all my earlier posts that Coolibar had a reasonably good pant for ladies called Sun Pant. I'm sure a variety of women would need such kinds of clothes. I then put in an elastic band to supply extra tension since the waist band can be a bit too large in any other case, and the pant is practically a dream. I did have to change the waist myself by taking out the drawstring which involved reducing into the back of the waistband area for the reason that drawstring was sewn into that space. It is very sensible for a number of actions. It is not so lengthy that the hem drags on the ground. It isn't for very very hot weather but that may depend on your own capacity to tolerate hot weather. It's of a fabric blend that isn't like cotton. All pants should have pockets, however generally the way in which the pockets are designed make them ineffective anyway. I discover it's a very particular person factor. This is how most hiking pants must be designed. It is a teensy bit too dense for very popular weather very much like the unique Coolibar Solar Pant. It is supposed for use with a belt but I find that I don’t want one to wear this pant. I discovered a pant on Cabela’s that's for males, but which matches properly and it's named “The utility Pant” (see one of the final two links under). It stretches a bit so it does not get tight when you bend or transfer. In fact not everyone has the same figure as I do so others might have a unique opinion. But usually this is an effective type of pant . If you do prefer it you must write to the corporate and inform them to hold on these pants. One flaw with this pant is that the front pockets are designed so as the openings are slits nearly utterly parallel with the waist. I feel they're going to discontinue it so that you may want to offer it a try. The material stretches so it is not as unhealthy as if it had been with jeans with these kinds of pockets. It is an impractical design and that i don’t know why clothes designers make pant pockets like this. With these sorts of pockets you have to maneuver your palms in a extra unnatural way and even carry the hem of your shirt to place your arms in your entrance pants pockets. It must be for fashion, nothing else. Pockets should be a line down the thigh, or a diagonal line is nice too. It's a good idea to have zippered pockets. Anyone who has ever gotten his/her open pocket caught on a door knob or the handlebar of a bike whereas passing by too shut will know what I mean. But generally zippers may cause scrapes to the again of the hand when you set your fingers in. There's a need to design zippers of non-scraping materials for this objective. There can be one other men’s pant from Columbia. I feel I mentioned them before (see one in every of the two hyperlinks below). Why aren’t any clothes designers engaged on this? They are of an excellent materials for hot days, but for me, I discovered myself removing the belt and sewing an elastic band within the back of the waistband space in order to make the belt unnecessary. I journey a bike. I rarely use shorts even when i jog. But again, I should settle for no matter comes close to what I want. I got here throughout a operating quick called Brooks Sherpa IV. I tend to simply go to clothing stores to look at designs and materials . What I did like about it was the lightweight material. I just wondered why regular lengthy pants usually are not manufactured from such a fabric. It can be glorious for a hiking pant meant for very popular weather. The material was very much like a very very lightweight softshell. There may be one from the North Face called The Prolix jacket. I really like softshell clothes. It is extremely lightweight, not excellent for chilly weather by itself but you'll be able to put layering underneath it. It is flexible and matches excellently and allows freedom of movement. But softshells are made for winter, spring and fall, not summer season. Also , why aren’t there any actually really practically-designed vests? The Brook’s Sherpa IV would make a fantastic summertime softshell. There needs to be a vest for traveling. I discover myself wishing for such a thing. It does not exist. Why not make certainly one of lightweight and stretchy materials? I do know that I've stated to a lot in this put up. I'll stop for now. I hope I didn't bore anybody. I've numerous concepts for the better design of clothing and I will in all probability put up once more with my ideas except I am told to not. I might have been a bit political too.
