The North Face sale

81r2

https://www.thenorthface.ie/sale.html

Might interest someone. Looks like 30%-40% discount on sale items. With free standard delivery.

Yamanoto

I still have the Gotham jacket I picked up thanks to a Boards BA in 2013

€130 then but €280 now

Boo etc

Sean Quagmire

not sure about some of those sale prices.
paid 200 for the zaneck about a year ago. not on sale if I recall, 210 here on sale?

brightkane

Yamanoto wrote: »

I still have the Gotham jacket I picked up thanks to a Boards BA in 2013

€130 then but €280 now

Boo etc

I think I got my NF Mules on the same sale. Wear them every day around the house. But they are beginning to wear away unfortunately :-)

Buck

Any idea if these will be shipped from UK or from Ireland. Don't wat to pay for the item and then have to pay customs/duties etc.

dr.kenneth noisewater

Buck wrote: »

Any idea if these will be shipped from UK or from Ireland. Don't wat to pay for the item and then have to pay customs/duties etc.

Says all goods shipped from Belgium in FAQ
https://www.thenorthface.ie/help/faq/delivery.html

Brand totally ruined by the so many skangers wearing it IMO.

basill

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

not sure about some of those sale prices. paid 200 for the zaneck about a year ago. not on sale if I recall, 210 here on sale?

"Sale" in name only.

MarkY91

I wouldn't pay all that money just to dress like a junkie does.

DraftDodger

52 euro for a beanie hat and that's the sale price. Think I'll leave it.

Wanderer78

Augeo wrote: »

Brand totally ruined by the so many skangers wearing it IMO.

so you wouldnt wear their gear because others do?

mrcheez

https://www.thenorthface.ie/shop/en-gb/tnf-ie/men-men-sale/mens-brown-label-sweater-4r6j?variationId=CZ6

Xmas jumper for €150?

Bargain!

Wanderer78

Wanderer78 wrote: »

so you wouldnt wear their gear because others do?

Way back I didn't wear their gear as I thought it was overpriced for what it was and thought it was drab, colourless stuff grand for doing stuff I didn't do (wandering around outside in the cold).

Since NorthFace gear has become a uniform for skangers, wannabe skangers and scrotes across UK & Ireland I'd not be seen dead in it.

I have a duck down jacket (not NorthFace) that I wear a handful of times a year when it's cold enough to need it so I'm not in the market for anything in their range that's functional either. But I wouldn't consider anything from them as an option.

I have a few pairs of AirMax which skangers are also fond of but I tend not to buy the ones that skangers are into, taste etc is a great guide IMO.

corks finest

Yamanoto wrote: »

I still have the Gotham jacket I picked up thanks to a Boards BA in 2013

€130 then but €280 now

Boo etc

Feck

melekalikimaka

Wanderer78 wrote: »

so you wouldnt wear their gear because others do?

its more a case people will have preconceptions of you

Wanderer78

Augeo wrote: »

Way back I didn't wear their gear as I thought it was overpriced for what it was and thought it was drab, colourless stuff grand for doing stuff I didn't do (wandering around outside in the cold).

Since NorthFace gear has become a uniform for skangers, wannabe skangers and scrotes across UK & Ireland I'd not be seen dead in it.

hahaha, no worries, weird opinion, but shur there yea go, i think they make very good gear, very comfortable, but i will agree, overpriced, but most clothes are, those poor Chinese kids that make out clothes

was unaware of north faces own gore-tex brand, futurelight, any experience with this on the mountains, is it as good as gore-tex?

flanzer

Yamanoto wrote: »

I still have the Gotham jacket I picked up thanks to a Boards BA in 2013

€130 then but €280 now

Boo etc

Yowza! Now that's a bargain

Wanderer78

Wanderer78 wrote: »

.......weird opinion..........

Fairly mainstream view nowadays amongst non skangers IMO :pac:

you2008

but most clothes are, those poor Chinese kids that make out clothes

What planet are you living in ?:eek:

Wanderer78

Augeo wrote: »

Fairly mainstream view nowadays amongst non skangers IMO :pac:

na disagree there, id say most of my outdoor friends would class north face as a very good brand, but they are way over priced, i certainly wouldnt be paying full price anyway

corks finest

Augeo wrote: »

Way back I didn't wear their gear as I thought it was overpriced for what it was and thought it was drab, colourless stuff grand for doing stuff I didn't do (wandering around outside in the cold).

Since NorthFace gear has become a uniform for skangers, wannabe skangers and scrotes across UK & Ireland I'd not be seen dead in it.

I have a duck down jacket (not NorthFace) that I wear a handful of times a year when it's cold enough to need it so I'm not in the market for anything in their range that's functional either. But I wouldn't consider anything from them as an option.

I have a few pairs of AirMax which skangers are also fond of but I tend not to buy the ones that skangers are into, taste etc is a great guide IMO.

Personally I've no issue wearing NF v stylish, my son wears one and he's no skanger, but a 6,th year leaving cert student from Bishopstown is and aims to become a secondary teacher starting in ucc after the summer with the school help of God

Wanderer78

Wanderer78 wrote: »

na disagree there, id say most of my outdoor friends would class north face as a very good brand, but they are way over priced, i certainly wouldnt be paying full price anyway

It's grand for outdoors folk IMO, much like HH gear...... I'd not wear that casually in a fit either as it's worn by a load of knobs. Grand on a boat though.

corks finest wrote: »

Personally I've no issue wearing NF v stylish, my son wears one and he's no skanger, but a 6,th year leaving cert student from Bishopstown is and aims to become a secondary teacher starting in ucc after the summer with the school help of God

I'm speaking as an adult I don't really want to dress like a teenager.
I went to school in Bishopstown, plenty wannabe skangers there iirc :pac:
Best of luck to him with his teaching career.

I'm fully aware there are folk other than skangers, wannabe skangers and outdoorsy folk who wear NF but as I said, IMO the brand has been ruined.

Example..........

Wanderer78

Augeo wrote: »

It's grand for outdoors folk IMO, much like HH gear...... I'd not wear that casually in a fit either as it's worn by a load of knobs. Grand on a boat though.

i wear it casually, im growing very fond of that tracksuit tucked into the socks look

corks finest

Augeo wrote: »

It's grand for outdoors folk IMO, much like HH gear...... I'd not wear that casually in a fit either as it's worn by a load of knobs. Grand on a boat though.



I'm speaking as an adult I don't really want to dress like a teenager.
I went to school in Bishopstown, plenty wannabe skangers there iirc :pac:
Best of luck to him with his teaching career.

I'm fully aware there are folk other than skangers, wannabe skangers and outdoorsy folk who wear NF but as I said, IMO the brand has been ruined.

No skangers in Spioraid Naoimh, course I'm vvv biased as an ex student

corks finest

corks finest wrote: »

No skangers in Spioraid Naoimh, course I'm vvv biased as an ex student

lol, I went there myself ..... plenty wannabes who thought they were connected as their friends' brother's cousin was a bit of a name in Kenley selling daz :pac:

positron

Skangers / people with dodgy money are often the first to buy expensive branded stuff.

I would love a nice Patagonia jacket myself (not that I can afford one) - but what if it become fashionable with the wrong group...

Yamanoto

Yamanoto wrote: »

I still have the Gotham jacket I picked up thanks to a Boards BA in 2013

€130 then but €280 now

Boo etc

8 years wear from a jacket @ €16.25 per year........I'm amazed at how someone could call them overpriced when its costing them €1.35 a month (so far, I presume it's still going strong?)

If you paid €280 for a new one and got another 8 years out of it it still works out at less than €35 quid (€3 per month!).

Augeo wrote: »

Brand totally ruined by the so many skangers wearing it IMO.

Augeo wrote: »

I'd not be seen dead in it.

I don't wear their stuff for the "brand". I wear it because it is usually top drawer in terms of quality and lasts forever. I have 3 jackets over 12 years old, still nothing worn with them. I even have a pair of gloves I got in NYC in 2010 that have very little signs of wear plus a schoolbag from that same trip which I've used everyday since and is brand new, bar a few cosmetic marks on the outside.

I couldn't give a fiddlers who's wearing it or how others might judge me based on appearance. That's their own issue, and they can keep it AFAIC. I'd rather not lump everyone into the one category, judging them as one homogeneous grouping based on something arbitrary like their taste in jackets. I prefer to judge people independently, on their own merit, based on things like their propensity to wander into BA threads and tell everyone they'll look like a junkie if they buy something.

But that's just me.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

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I don't wear their stuff for the "brand". I wear it because it is usually top drawer in terms of quality and lasts forever. I have 3 jackets over 12 years old, still nothing worn with them. I even have a pair of gloves I got in NYC in 2010 that have very little signs of wear plus a schoolbag from that same trip which I've used everyday since and is brand new, bar a few cosmetic marks on the outside.

I couldn't give a fiddlers who's wearing it or how others might judge me based on appearance. That's their own issue, and they can keep it AFAIC. I'd rather not lump everyone into the one category, judging them as one homogeneous grouping based on something arbitrary like their taste in jackets. I prefer to judge people independently, on their own merit, based on things like their propensity to wander into BA threads and tell everyone they'll look like a junkie if they buy something.

But that's just me.

Right, I'm not really bothered what some lad with a schoolbag in hand for the last 10 years thinks of my views tbh :pac:

Especially if he's clad in NorthFace gear

corks finest

Augeo wrote: »

lol, I went there myself ..... plenty wannabes who thought they were connected as their friends' brother's cousin was a bit of a name in Kenley selling daz :pac:

Not

corks finest

corks finest wrote: »

Not being snobbish but I'm talking original Bishopstown, uam var etc, others are Togher or norrie blow ins,, but on the other hand a prick from Highfield I went there with ended up dealing in the late 70 s

I hear ya

Creamy Goodness

well this BA thread has been ruined by non-BA related chat.

DavyD_83

I still love some of the North Face gear and their to end stuff is still technically very impressive.
Will take a look at the sale, but already sound like pricing may not be hugely impressive.

My problem with the skanger/chav element is it seems that TNF have leaned into it from a design perspective and appear to be creating outdoor leisure wear as part of their offerings now. A quick browse of their site a the slots of models wearing the products pretty much sports this. 10 yes who it would have been all people on mountains etc, current images look like joints and cans have been photoshopped out ��
I would have preferred of they created a separate brand or labelled slightly differently, but I get why they wouldn't as well.

franglan

Pppst... North Face is just a poor skanger's Canada Goose... It's insane the amount of these jackets on the boys around parts of North Dublin - like they are near a grand as I drive by in a barely NCT passable car. Can't all be real can they or going to college was the wrong career choice...

corks finest

positron wrote: »

Skangers / people with dodgy money are often the first to buy expensive branded stuff.

I would love a nice Patagonia jacket myself (not that I can afford one) - but what if it become fashionable with the wrong group...

Never heard of a patagonia, just goes to show how much of a dinosaur I am, I

positron

corks finest wrote: »

Never heard of a patagonia, just goes to show how much of a dinosaur I am, I

Patagonia is very hip I believe - They are like "please don't buy our stuff unless you really need to" and we will fix it or buy back etc. Big into reduce & recycle motto which I think is their main selling point.

This interview with the founder of Patagonia is really interesting too.

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/06/572558864/patagonia-yvon-chouinard?t=1611146489948

bk

Wanderer78 wrote: »

na disagree there, id say most of my outdoor friends would class north face as a very good brand, but they are way over priced, i certainly wouldnt be paying full price anyway

As a hiker, yes NF still makes excellent hiking and ski gear.

However they have leaned very heavily into street wear now and the quality of a lot of there clothes is now pretty poor, so don't just assume because it is NF, that it is high quality gear. I've even heard that some of the lines which were previously very well made, are now much more cheaply made.

The hiking/snow gear specific stuff seems to be still decent. Yes a bit over priced compared to other hiking gear companies, but during sales, can come down to reasonable prices (for hiking gear) and can be well worth it. Roughly half my gear is from NF and they are excellent, in particular I like there pants.

pm1977x

positron wrote: »

Patagonia is very hip I believe - They are like "please don't buy our stuff unless you really need to" and we will fix it or buy back etc. Big into reduce & recycle motto which I think is their main selling point.

This interview with the founder of Patagonia is really interesting too.

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/06/572558864/patagonia-yvon-chouinard?t=1611146489948

I have a Patagonia jacket from over 10 years ago, was my regular jacket for years but still get some use out of it every year, it's nearly indestructible, ridiculously long arms on it though!

Birneybau

Amazing how things go in and out of fashion.

I recall Patagonia in the late 90's was skanger gear.

Anyway, I've a waterproof NF jacket and nice black NF fleece, and I would hike.

Wouldn't give a sh!te what anyone would think if they saw me sweating/freezing up a mountain. Don't really give a sh!te in general.

Find the idea someone thinking their choice of Air Max styles over the skanger ones makes them a stylish discerning adult hilarious.

Charlie19

If you are looking for outdoor good quality clothing, Cotswold have a sale on at the moment.

All the good brands available.

https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/c/mens.html

Skidfingers

Birneybau wrote: »

Amazing how things go in and out of fashion.

I recall Patagonia in the late 90's was skanger gear.

Anyway, I've a waterproof NF jacket and nice black NF fleece, and I would hike.

Wouldn't give a sh!te what anyone would think if they saw me sweating/freezing up a mountain. Don't really give a sh!te in general.

Find the idea someone thinking their choice of Air Max styles over the skanger ones makes them a stylish discerning adult hilarious.

I got a Patagonia fleece last year, got it bought for me.



Wasn't sure if I liked it at first, but love it now. so cosy.

2smiggy

extra 10% off as well for signing up to their newsletter

positron

Charlie19 wrote: »

If you are looking for outdoor good quality clothing, Cotswold have a sale on at the moment.

All the good brands available.

https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/c/mens.html

Do they not ship from UK? Might incur 23% VAT + courier processing fee?

BlazingSaddler

I bought a Gilet five years ago for €130 and love it, down filled and very warm. Now €200+ so would be reluctant to pay that for a Gilet. I did however buy a down filled jacket recently for about €280. I really feel the cold and I have to say it’s fantastic quality. Hoping I’ll get 10 years out of it. I had a raincoat about 10 years ago which lasted well, have struggled to replace it as the quality of those doesn’t seem quite as good to me.
No doubt the number of kids with The North Face made me think twice about my latest purchase (I’m mid 40’s) but I don’t regret it.

Charlie19

positron wrote: »

Do they not ship from UK? Might incur 23% VAT + courier processing fee?

Well I hope not, I bought a few items yesterday.
I thought because they have a store in Dundrum that I'd get away with any extra costs.

Time will tell.

Birneybau

Genuine question, and I'll look on the North Face site to see if there's anything I want (for hiking).

What are the best outdoor brands now?

Is Berghaus well regarded?

jpb1974

positron wrote: »

Do they not ship from UK? Might incur 23% VAT + courier processing fee?

Been a while since I bought from them, but I'd swear they sent from Belgium or Holland back in the day.

Their website does state "Taxes and duties are already included in the product cost."

Birneybau

Birneybau wrote: »

Amazing how things go in and out of fashion.

I recall Patagonia in the late 90's was skanger gear.

Anyway, I've a waterproof NF jacket and nice black NF fleece, and I would hike.

Wouldn't give a sh!te what anyone would think if they saw me sweating/freezing up a mountain. Don't really give a sh!te in general.

Find the idea someone thinking their choice of Air Max styles over the skanger ones makes them a stylish discerning adult hilarious.

Patagonia and Scanda were the jackets du jour of the discerning scangers back in the 90s alright. I had a bright yellow one that I got for Xmas one year, it was savage.

corks finest

Birneybau wrote: »

Genuine question, and I'll look on the North Face site to see if there's anything I want (for hiking).

What are the best outdoor brands now?

Is Berghaus well regarded?

Berghaus is, I did my research before purchasing the waterproof coat, I've been using it in all weather's

Wanderer78

Birneybau wrote: »

Genuine question, and I'll look on the North Face site to see if there's anything I want (for hiking).

What are the best outdoor brands now?

Is Berghaus well regarded?

the ones you chose to be

berghaus is grand alright

fulhamfan

Birneybau wrote: »

Genuine question, and I'll look on the North Face site to see if there's anything I want (for hiking).

What are the best outdoor brands now?

Is Berghaus well regarded?

Can't got wrong with Berghaus and Northface

corks finest

fulhamfan wrote: »

Can't got wrong with Berghaus and Northface

Mountain warehouse up to 50 pc off atm