Down jacket the most comprehensive guide

Down jacket the most comprehensive guide

An autumn rain and a cold

The autumn rain has been round after round, and the weather is gradually getting cold. The north, needless to say, has already entered the state of early winter.

Say early or not early, such weather, both north and south are time to prepare the down jacket.

Down jackets  are worn every year, but there are always a thousand feelings –

Some say a down jacket is enough to carry them through the winter.

Some people say that the down jacket is really useless, no resistance to the cold.

Why the same down jacket will have a completely different feeling? There are three reasons

Choose the wrong wash the wrong maintenance

At the drop of a few thousand down jacket really can not be perfunctory, today I tell you about the two or three things down jacket!

Why does a down jacket keep you warm

A Down coat is a down coat filled with down stuffing.

Its essence is a jacket made of waterproof and windproof coated fabric wrapped in bird fluff, using the fluffy thickness to lock in our own heat and not let it easily escape.

Therefore, the down jacket shagginess directly determines the warm effect of the down jacket.

How to choose the right down jacket?

First of all, the washing label and tag of the down jacket look like the content, the filling amount, the stuffing……

Content of content

There are almost no 100% pure down jackets on the market. Most of them are made of a mixture of down and feathers.

Down is responsible for keeping warm, feathers are responsible for holding up the bones and muscles of the down jacket, and the content is the proportion of the down in the whole jacket.

The higher the cashmere content, the better the warm effect of the down jacket, and the lower the cashmere content of the down jacket, not only relatively heavier, but also a lot of drill down.

The down jacket also has a contempt chain, the content of less than 50% is at the bottom of the contempt chain, basically can not be called down jacket, slightly better quality of the content of 70%, and the quality of the down jacket is more than 90%.

Degree of flux

It has been said above that the thermal performance of down jacket is determined by the amount of puff. In the case of the same amount of fill, the higher the puff, the better the thermal function.

Down jackets on the market are generally divided into 550,600,700,800 and 900.

So what do these numbers mean?

“There is a special index in the world, refers to under certain conditions each ounce (30 grams) of down volume cubic inches of value, take 600 for example, that is, an ounce of down space for 600 cubic inches is 600″

In plain English, the higher the number, the warmer the down jacket.

If you need high fluffy down, you must choose waterproof and moisture-proof fabric, in order to effectively ensure its warmth.

Pile filling capacity

There seems to be a word difference between cashmere content and cashmere content, but in fact they are very different.

“Filling amount” refers to the gram weight of down, which is simply the weight of down filled by a down jacket.

This is not to be underestimated as a parameter index. Even if the content of a down jacket is very high, but the amount of filling is very small, it will affect the effect of keeping warm.

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However, the filling amount is not an absolute value, it will vary according to the length of the down jacket, and it can also be flexibly adjusted according to regional differences.

For example, in the south, a long down jacket filled with about 100 grams may be enough, but for the north, a short down jacket may need more than 200 grams.

Look at the feel of the velvet part

In the selection of down jacket can not purely look at the data, but also look at the feel, because some bad businesses in order to save costs in the down jacket will be stuffed into some inferior stuffing.

Gently knead the down jacket with your hand, if you feel the hand pricking, or can obviously feel the filling of the hair, it proves that the impurities of the down are more, the quality is poor.

Smell the smell

Down jacket odor generally has two conditions:

First, the processing technology of this down is not up to standard, or the materials used are very mixed, and the taste should be relied on to cover up the smell of inferior materials.

Second, the filling choice is eider down, due to different eating habits (geese eat grass, ducks eat omnivorous), the odor of eider down will be much larger than goose down.

Eider down and goose down affect not only the taste, but also the service life. Generally speaking, the life of eider down is much longer than that of eider down, which can reach 15 years, while eider down only has about 10 years.

That is to say, feel good goose down jacket is the best choice.

To sum up: the wool content is more than 50%, about 70%, the wool content is about 130 grams (in the south), and the puffer is more than 600 is a warm qualified down jacket.

How do people choose down jackets in the north and South

Every winter the war between the north and the South begins, and the most popular argument is which side is cold.

Of course, the cold in the north is more hardcore than the cold and wet magic of the south, which requires a more warm down jacket.

Generally speaking, people in the South wear down jackets every day, only need to keep warm and do not need to resist the cold. They choose down jackets with about 600 puffy degree, more than 60% cashmere content and about 250g cashmere content.

It can meet your daily needs and save your wallet firepower.

But for the north, this degree of down jacket is a little not enough to see, especially the sisters who like outdoor sports, must come to a cold down jacket, such as the puffer of 700, the content of 80%, the content of 250g or so to make you very cold resistance.

# 10 tips for a down jacket #

Again warm and expensive down jacket will not wash will not maintain, the same will lose the warmth, that specific how to do?

About washing

Avoid wrong washing method:

1. Don’t dry clean, it won’t be soft. 2. Don’t wash it often, it won’t get warm. 3. Don’t be exposed to the sun, it will fade. 4. Don’t put it in the washing machine, it will explode. 5. Do not wash with hot boiling water, it will tie knots. 6. Do not vigorously wring and rubbing, it will be deformed.

GET the correct washing method:

1.

Soak the down jacket in water below 30℃.

Dip a brush in neutral laundry detergent or down coat detergent and gently rub the stain.

Add a bottle of edible white vinegar with a lid and pour it into water. Soak for 5-10 minutes and then squeeze the water to dry.

2.

One of the tricks to making down jackets last longer is not to wash them if you can, so if you accidentally get a stain on your down jacket, just apply the right amount of detergent to the stain.

Let it sit for 3-5 minutes, and then wipe it with a wet rag

3.

If you really don’t want to wash them by hand, you can put your down jacket in a mesh bag and then throw it in the washing machine.

Here’s a secret to machine washing that makes you fluffy. Throw a tennis ball in the wash.

The tennis ball will be in the process of drying clothes, constantly beating clothes, so as to avoid the down jacket caking, pile up and other situations.

About drying

Hang in a ventilated place to dry, if you are afraid of deformation can use two coat hangers spread flat oh ~

About storage

Hang up your down jacket in a non-woven dust-proof bag when you are not wearing it. Throw two mothballs into it to prevent bugs from getting in. Remember to keep it in a dry, cool and breathable place

If you do get moldy, you can wipe the moldy area with alcohol, wipe it with a damp towel and leave it in a cool, ventilated place to dry.

About Maintenance

I believe that many people have encountered it, but I also believe that most people will not handle it correctly.

Pay attention to the running of the velvet do not pull out, to avoid bringing out more down.

The first thing you should do when you find running fur is to cut off the exposed feathers, then gently rub the down fabric with your fingers to restore it to normal size, and then use clear nail polish to seal the running fur.

If there is only a small amount of running down, just gently pull the down fabric and let the down back inside.

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