Howdy Y’all,
So wanted tp update now that my trip has started. ( last time we went away was in 2017)
Been planning this trip since before Covid and finally managed to start it.
This bag has been planned and packed for two years of travel ,with the first 3 months being on a motorbike around Europe.
So currently the plan is this should cover me for all weather… but mostly ¾ so not deep winter.
Not in this picture is motorbike gear ( as its only with us for the first three months).
Bag-
Arcido Akra 35L- really been happy with this bag, it’s a good size and it isn’t too expensive ( although i have also managed to travel with cheaper backpacks in the past, you don’t need much) I wish there was a few more pockets to keep things separate as some front pocket has no real organisation so tends to have stuff all over it.
Smaller internal Bag- Cabin Zero Flapjack 4L- So this is going to be my camera bag/day bag when we are out and about, but on travel days It fits inside the bag. Been …
It seems like everyone is suggesting to go with barefoot shoes.
Other than them being lightweight and small - are there real concrete evidence based reasons to transition to barefoot shoes? (after searching a bit for academic research I couldn’t find anything concrete in favor).
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P.S. I’d love to buy into the hype, I just need to know why :)
#Fitpics and videos:
#Intro:
Hey, my name is Cata! Outlier was very kind and sent me a few pairs of their bombflows to review. Here are my honest thoughts and impressions on them after living in them for the past few days.
#Sizing:
For sizing: I am 6’2, 165-170 lb, and have a 41 inch chest and a 31 inch waist. I take large in all of my outlier tops and normally 31 in bottoms.
In some pants, including nylistic dartflows, I have sized up to a 32 because of the straight waist/hip ratio. I did that with these pants and regret it as the elastane in bombtwill is forgiving and would have easily let me take 31. Nylistic dartflows, in contrast, are taut in the seat when I sit down as the fabric has little to no give.
#Comparison to Nylistic Dartflows:
The most direct thing I can compare them to are nylistic dartflows. Nylstics feel suave, and I think my outfits with them reflect that. In terms of their drape, the fabric oozes down towards the leg opening and pools, …
Been a while since I’ve seen one of these, and was curious what everyone’s been enjoying
Anybody get this week’s newsletter? Is this Hasan Minhaj… I mean, I’m pretty sure it is but can anyone confirm: https://mcusercontent.com/6a3881533364d475a48d6fcc6/images/2f0ff94e-06a4-e464-46f8-2a8e1fbfd661.jpg
edit: nm. just saw a link at the bottom of the newsletter and it totally is. awesome.
Hailing from the same era as the Doublehood that was featured in last week’s Flashback, this is another fun, hooded experiment that Outlier released as part of a 2014 trio— this time with the bonus of showing off your brawny pythons, The Cowlhood.
This piece gives me “young protagonist in the beginning of an action movie” vibes. Kind of like a young Luke Skywalker meets jawa type beat, or maybe somewhere between shirtless Jackie Chan and candid, robe-clad Jackie Chan. As is often the case, this isn’t the kind of form I’d normally gravitate toward, but something about this piece makes me think it’d impart some of that “ready for action” chutzpah when throwing it on, so color me convinced.
While this piece uses Outlier’s staple t-shirt fabric, 200 gsm Ultrafine Merino, which is solid in a fair range of temperatures (and might make this a rad, unconventional base layer), I couldn’t help but feel like this form would be especially dope in Dreamweight. The lack of sleeves, combined …
A wide and flowing pant experiment in the crisply structured and near indestructible Bombtwill fabric. Like all our dart form pants there is no side seam only a dart at top for shaping. Unlike many earlier dart forms these ones are big, wide and full of flair.