Opinions on carhartt hooded jacket please.

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If you have one what do you think of them. I wanted the one with the hood. Do they hold up and make a good everyday jacket?
 
Heck yes!!!

I post a pic of mine, I'v had it for about six years and it still looks great. The cuffs are a little worn but other than that they are well worth the money :thumbup:
 
You won't be disappointed in anything Carhartt makes. I have two of the jackets. One brown and one black. I'm hard on clothes and they hold up great...

I just happened to find a new one in gray at Dicks Sporting goods, and think I will be picking it up soon
 
ditto on everybody else's comments! they're good ish!

you'd think they're pants would be really uncomfortable being so thick and stiff, but they're quite the opposite! I wear my carhartt pants and jacket all the time....really great stuff.

If the denim shirt and jeans is the 'canadian tuxedo'...then we montanans will claim the carhartt pants and jacket as the montana tuxedo! haha :cool:
 
I gave a Carhartt hooded jacket to my son a couple of years ago. He trims trees for a living so it gets a beating. It still looks new. He likes it.
 
yes, get one. it's also the only hood that fits me nicely. i've had mine for about 2 years now and it looks great, aside from stains from grease.
 
...Period. I work in a prison, and many's the day that my Black, insulated Carhartt jacket and coveralls were the only thing that kept me from freezing solid on a gate or rec yard.

Funny story:

One day I got assigned to work our medium-custody rec yard, in a station we *lovingly* call, "The Birdcage." The duty station is a five-by-five foot box, mounted twenty feet off the ground on the wall that splits the rec yards for two buildings. It also happens to be on the North edge of the whole farm, so it gets the breeze, firstest and worstest. Well, the temperature was called out at 29 degrees with a wind chill of 13 as I climbed up in there, but lo and behold, there were still idiots out on the rec yard. If they're out, I'm out. So I get up in there, and bundle up under the four or five blankets that are up in the Birdcage, because the heater inside of it puts off a solid *5* BTUs on a summer's day. I leave my water bottle sitting on the sill as I wrap the blankets DIRECTLY ON THE HEATER (PRAYING that they'll catch fire, so at least I'll be warm for a few moments :eek: ) and when I turn around to grab a sip roughly five minutes into rec, it is FROZEN SOLID. Fortunately, I was geared up in my Carhartts, so I made it, but it was a "chilling" reminder that the weather doesn't play games.

Okay, anecdote time's over. Get the coat, you won't regret it if you spend ANY time outside working or playing. :cool:
 
I'm getting one. My Walmart Faded Glory plaid coat has held up pretty well over the past five years, but it is falling apart pretty bad. Figure I should just buck up and fork over the money, and it is not that much.
 
I've owned two of the hooded jackets by Carhartt. The zipper pull for closing the jacket broke off on both long before the jacket was worn out. Otherwise I like em a lot. I have one similar but not Carhartt now. The brand I'm wearing now is actually better insulated and slightly heavier than either of my Carhartts but of the same basic styling. In fact you have to look close to tell its not a Carhartt. All it says in it is "The Guide Series" and although it was a gift I'm pretty sure my wife snagged it for me from Cabela's Catalog. EDIT: Correction. She just told me it was Gander Mountain. Not Cabela's

Its outlasted both the Carhartts combined.

STR
 
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I generally like my Carhartt stuff. The hood on my "active jacket" on the other hand is just too short, it barely clears the front of my face when it's up (does that make sense?). When you tighten the drawstring, my whole forehead is still exposed. Looks and feels goofy to me. I've been leery of their hoods ever since, I suggest you try a hooded one out first before you buy.

Recently I came across some of the same type stuff by Arborwear that looked awesome, that might be one of my next jackets.
 
i got one and love it but hate the hood...itis like two years old....i just wear it in the winter....the hood is very stiff because of the heavy duty fabric....it just gets in the way when i am driving in the car.....i do not owrk construction or use it in any harsh environment so it doesn't get broken in like it would otherwise....something to take into account....it looks just like the day i got it after two winters.....i would definately buy carhartt products again...ryan
 
great jackets. i got one without the elastic at the bottom that helps keep that cool air off your back when bending and moving. had it for at least 5 years no problem. def. not ultralight but will last long long time. id actually like to get one with out a hood now though. hood is nice but i have come to prefer just a stocking cap.
 
I had one and hated it. The quality is excellent and I love their quilted overalls but to me the hooded jacket was to big and bulky. I don't care a lot for hoods and I didn't like the elastic at the waist and cuffs.
 
I love everything about my carhartt jackets, except the zippers. For some reason they're a pain, and I always fight to get them started. No idea why this happens either. Otherwise awesome product.

T-man
 
There's a couple of different hooded jackets. There's at least two models of the cotton duck canvas jacket and at least one model of the fleece. I have owned both the canvas and the fleece. The fleece model will freeze you to death if worn by itself. If you use it as a layering garmet it does okay. The pockets come unsewn over time and since I can't sew, I just used nylon zip ties to hold the pockets on. I also owned the non-arctic cotton duck hooded jacket. Great coat. Well worth the money. A co-worker who is a world class tightwad has owned one for over ten years. It's in tatters. When the zipper finally gave out he toyed around with safety pins but ended up going to a seamstress and having a new zipper installed. The seamstress must have thought he was insane. The darn thing looks like it was found in a landfill somewhere.

By the way, Carhartt is big business over in jolly old England. You think the stuff is expensive here. Over in London they're paying three times the profane prices we pay. But they are the "in" clothing over there so they need to cash in before they become yesterday's news.
 
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