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"Life-TEX" shell fabric?
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Nov 15, 2005, 11:14 AM
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"Life-TEX" shell fabric?
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Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of / road tested this stuff? It's marketed in China under the brand "Life Unlimited". I got to have a look at a few jackets in a reasonably reputable-looking store in Beijing. It certainly looks reasonably beefy (at least much more so than most of the "Gore-TEX" jackets I've seen here :lol: ). The problem is, I obviously can't test their claims on water-proofness in store - if I read the poster right, they claim it'll hold a 3m water column, vs. Gore-TEX's 10. Hence the question. Is it any good, and does it last? If so, at just under 600 RMB (about US$80) for a fleece-lined jacket, it's pretty hard to walk past...


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