Yostivanich

For Christ­mas one of the gifts from my parental units was a Scot­tEVest Fleece 5.0 Jacket and it was awesome.

Scot­tEVest tar­gets peo­ple who have a ton of stuff to carry around with them, every arti­cle of cloth­ing has more pock­ets then you would imag­ine pos­si­ble. The Fleece Jacket has 24 pock­ets (yeah you read that right twenty-four) so basi­cally you carry what­ever you want in/on the jacket itself.

It has a pocket fit for a paper­back book, travel doc­u­ments, sun­glasses (includ­ing a lens clean­ing cloth), dig­i­tal cam­era, two see-through and touch­able pock­ets for your touch­screen mobile phone or gad­get, a water bot­tle, and a dozen more pock­ets on the jacket. Even bet­ter most of the pock­ets enable you to run head­phone wires up and through to the col­lar. I car­ried a paper­back book, dig­i­tal cam­era, cell­phone, keys, wal­let, and a half a dozen other items all con­ve­niently located. About the only thing I couldn’t haul around was a laptop.

Now I am the type of per­son who hates hav­ing stuff in my jean pock­ets but I always have so much stuff to carry around, finally this jacket (and the whole line of cloth­ing) gives me a way to carry it all around with­out need­ing a satchel of some sort. I was so pleased with the jacket I added to my Ama­zon Wish List to get even more, the Quan­tum Jacket, which goes with the Fleece Jacket to make the Scott Jor­dan Sig­na­ture Sys­tem, the Pack Wind­breaker and the Microfleece Hoodie.

Even their hat has pock­ets on it.

Com­plaints

The one major com­plaint I have is all of the pock­ets have these hard glossy paper cards in them (that you can see in the photo). The cards are designed to ensure that you both know where all of the pock­ets are and what they are for. I totally dig the thought behind the cards and I found them use­ful and a lot of fun, but I wish they were more envi­ron­men­tally friendly, I just wound up throw­ing them all away. The sec­ond com­plaint is that the sun­glasses pocket wound up bend­ing my sun­glasses. With straight sun­glasses, more like a typ­i­cal pair of glasses, it would be fine. How­ever, I have sun­glasses whose frame and lenses are curved, the pocket through either the force of the jacket itself or where they were placed wound up bend­ing the frames.

Quite lit­er­ally I couldn’t rec­om­mend this jacket more than I already have. I’ve wore this jacket every day since I got it and am just so pleased with it.