Sprayway Urban Spirit Gilet
Price: £80.00
Weight: Feel da quality
Features: Polartec Wind Pro fabric - blocks 95 per-cent of
the wind - with delicious fleecy inner surface, no arms, full-length
front zip, twin zipped handwarmer pockets, funky floppy hood
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Da coolest place in Glossop for
da street wear
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Cos this 'ere's a cool chilled urban garment dudes, we decided to
check it out in da collest place in Glossop. Da newly extended
Glossop Tesco. Cos Glossop is so hard, da
Tesco is the coldest place in
town, so we put on the Urban Spliff and went to hang with the
frozen foods massive with da cool hood on.
Pretty soon we was attracting loads of attention. Da shoppers were
staring at us, cos the hooded gilet is like, happening. Da new Wind
Pro fleece - check out da specs below - is 95 per-cent wind
resistant, which means if you blow through it, you can feel your
breathe on da naked skin below. Tek-neee-cal.
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Da love parade starts
here.
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But dis ain't no redsock-boy hill fleece.
Dis is just da job for da urban
environment. Dat hood ain't adjustable. But man, dis is what
da SAS would wear to do the groceries you know. We 'ad da ask de girl
at da checkout to do the photos like, but ees no problem cos we is so
cool in da Spirit.
Da hood is well cool. Normally dey is only on dee laydeez tops but
dis is for da guys as well.
Check it out. In da shops now in time for de Santa
man.
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Checking it out at da check out.
Big up Tesco
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Verdict: funkin' not
sweatin'
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Update Okay, in English this time. This isn't really a
technical garment, but it's a brilliant way of conserving core body
heat, maybe layered over a thinner fleece to keep your arms mobile.
The hood comes in useful too, particularly if your hair is short,
though the lack of any sort of elastication means that it's at its
best in town and in windless conditions. Also seems to be reasonably
water resistant.
It's lived up to the non-clammy claim so far and we'd love to try
a more technical top in the same fabric. But really, this is as much
about looks as performance and we like it. It's about time boys had a hooded gilet as well - for some reason they've always been reserved for wimmin...
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Urban Performance
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Fashion Value
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Da Sprayway web site, hit it here
man
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Pushed for time: The
Urban Spirit uses a new Polartec fabric called Wind Pro.
Claimed to be 95 per-cent wind resistant and to offer twice
the protection from wind chill of a normal fleece, but
without that clammy feeling windproof fleece is so renowned
for and, so far as we can tell, it works pretty
well.
I say, as far as we
can tell because the Urban Spirit is more street wear than
hill wear, albeit warm and comfortable street wear. We like
it for what it is and simply say check it out
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