Black Friday Vests
Puffer vests are jackets with the sleeves taken off, and that is the entire appeal. Same padding, same quilted baffles, nothing at the arms. The one to wear in the car, on the bike, or over a hoodie when it is only the middle of you that is cold.
Black Friday Vests
Black Friday vests and gilets: puffer, hooded and longline
Gilet and vest are the same garment and both names get used for it. What it does is heat the core and leave the arms free, which is why it works over a jumper and under a shell, and why it stays wearable indoors when a jacket does not. The trade is an honest one. It is warmer than no jacket and cooler than a jacket, and it wins on movement.
Hood or no hood in the Black Friday vest sale
A hooded vest is close to a sleeveless jacket and handles weather on its own. Without a hood it becomes a layer instead, sitting under a coat without bunching at the neck. Length changes it again, with a longline gilet covering the lower back for the same reason a longline jacket does. Our padding runs the same quilted construction as the jackets, so the warmth is comparable wherever it covers. Black Friday puffer jackets is the sleeved version and Black Friday jackets is everything else.