An Arc'teryx Veilance anorak, bought from the Hideout.
Is this the peak of mil-spec technology crossing over to mainstream surplus utility? This jacket would probably get you through a nuclear winter.
“An obsession with the idea not just of the right stuff, but of the special stuff. Equipment fetishism. The costume and semiotics of achingly elite police and military units. Intense desire to possess same, of course, and in turn to be associated with that world. With its competence, its cocksure exclusivity.... Virtually none of these products will ever be used for anything remotely like what they were designed for. Of course, that’s true of most of the contents of your traditional army-navy store. Whole universes of wistful male fantasy in those places. But the level of consumer motivation we’re seeing, the fact that these are often what amount to luxury goods, and priced accordingly. That’s new.” Hubertus Bigend’s definition of ‘gear queer’, from Zero History, by William Gibson.
You can get into a juicy debate about a moneyed but disenfranchised new proletariat, pacified by consumerism while co-opting the uniforms and stylistic tropes of the mechanisms being used by the state to keep us all in place; but the end result of all this is that I have a torch that is so bright it can be used as a defensive weapon, which I use to help pick up the dog’s turds in the dark. These may truly be the last days.
Is this the peak of mil-spec technology crossing over to mainstream surplus utility? This jacket would probably get you through a nuclear winter.
“An obsession with the idea not just of the right stuff, but of the special stuff. Equipment fetishism. The costume and semiotics of achingly elite police and military units. Intense desire to possess same, of course, and in turn to be associated with that world. With its competence, its cocksure exclusivity.... Virtually none of these products will ever be used for anything remotely like what they were designed for. Of course, that’s true of most of the contents of your traditional army-navy store. Whole universes of wistful male fantasy in those places. But the level of consumer motivation we’re seeing, the fact that these are often what amount to luxury goods, and priced accordingly. That’s new.” Hubertus Bigend’s definition of ‘gear queer’, from Zero History, by William Gibson.
You can get into a juicy debate about a moneyed but disenfranchised new proletariat, pacified by consumerism while co-opting the uniforms and stylistic tropes of the mechanisms being used by the state to keep us all in place; but the end result of all this is that I have a torch that is so bright it can be used as a defensive weapon, which I use to help pick up the dog’s turds in the dark. These may truly be the last days.
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