WoolWeenies Club

[mimitabby]

I have medium Ibex Knickers and they are a little looser than most mediums.

[KnottedYet]

I wear a Large in everything, but a Medium in Ibex cycling bottoms.

And, yeah, what is UP with REI's buyers? Why are there no women's REAL active clothes anymore? Just mall-crawler clothes for the women. Get those folks buying the same goodies for the women that they are buying for the men.

(don't even get me started... whew!)

[Brandi]

any recommendations on socks for riding. I have a couple paurs I really like. But thought there might be others i don't know about.

[mimitabby]

Brandi, I wear wool socks almost year round now. Not even bike specific ones.
Smart wool. thicker socks.

[Susan Otcenas]

I wear a Large in everything, but a Medium in Ibex cycling bottoms.

I wear XL in most cycling bottoms, but L in Ibex.

And, yeah, what is UP with REI's buyers? Why are there no women's REAL active clothes anymore? Just mall-crawler clothes for the women. Get those folks buying the same goodies for the women that they are buying for the men.

(don't even get me started... whew!)

It's perhaps inappropriate for me to state this in a public forum, but heck, it's just one gal's opinion, right? Seems to me that in the past 5 years or so, REI has gone much more towards the look-like-I'm-active-when-I'm-just-hanging-around apparel, rather than the wear-it-while-actually-BEING-active apparel. The REI in Tanasbourne (west of Portland) is just a clothing store. Almost no gear there at all (the only tents are suspended from the ceiling over the staircase, so I can't imagine they sell many), though they do sell bikes (this *is* Portland-metro, after all). Lots of casual wear, cotton, etc., tells me that they are going after the lifestyle crowd. Now, don't get me wrong. I LOVE most of the apparel they carry. I'm an REI member, and I buy my fair share of casual wear there. But alot of the truly tech-y apparel is harder to find there now.

Of course, in many ways, REI is very smart. Frankly, the lifestyle market is WAY WAY bigger, and more profitable, than the technical apparel market. If it's where the shoppers are, then it's where the retailers want to be. ( Heck, we'd like to sell more casual wear as well. )

Just my random thoughts..... That and 3 bucks will get you a Latte.

Susan

[boy in a kilt]

This is kinda funny in a way.

I bought a pair of wool cycling shorts off the rack from REI in 1983. I was 15 and that was all I could afford. Lycra anything was too expensive then. My first "cool" jersey was a wool one. Again, that was what I could afford.

Flip forward 24 years. Wool is crazy expensive. REI doesn't carry much by way of wool cycling anything. Sometimes I get a case of the giggles walking around the REI Flagship store in Seattle.

Here's another thing I miss from back in the day.



Every time I find some online they are always sold out.

The whole "manpri" thing is too hard for a lot of men to get past, but they are some of the best cycling pants ever. Rivendell has the MUSA knickers, but only in hobbit and cave troll size.

[Trek420]

Ibex Collo T Neck Top - Women's on Steep and Cheap

[mimitabby]

20 minutes later... men's raincoats...

[Trek420]

20 minutes later... men's raincoats...

Ah technology, I saw the alert in the corner of my screen - think it's called RSS feed, text Knott, she calls from the bus, got her one.