A suitable jacket is essential in outdoor activities and can provide effective protection in the face of extreme environments. However, there are many classifications of charge clothes to deal with different application environments. How to correctly select charge clothes is very important, so here we will talk about the focus when selecting charge clothes.

The concept of charge clothing is a broad concept. The word charge clothing is unique to our country. At the earliest time, it was mainly used as "hard shell" clothing for wind and rain. With the subdivision of products, soft shell clothing was also divided into the field of charge clothing, which was called "soft shell charge clothing". In order to facilitate the expression in the article, the following chapters are unified with "hard shell" and "soft shell.

First of all, let's talk about soft shells. Soft shells are called "SoftShell Jacket" in English, so they are called "soft jackets". Generally, fabrics are much softer than hard shells, and some fabrics also have certain elasticity. Windproof is an essential function of all soft shells, followed by some soft shells and a certain thickness of the fleece layer compound together, with a moderate warm function. There are also some soft shells, which are laminated with waterproof breathable membrane and turned into waterproof soft shells, which can generally reach the level of moderate rain prevention.

The version requirements of soft and hard shells are very different. The soft shell was originally used as rock climbing and ice climbing clothing. Later, it was accepted by other types of outdoor activities. Its characteristics are soft and closed, and the tops are mostly short jacket styles. Soft shell is generally used as a two-layer wear, regardless of the existence of middle-level insulation clothing.

The fabric windproof soft shell relies on the tight arrangement of fabric fibers to play a windproof role. The advantage is good air permeability, part of the fabric has good elasticity, wear comfort is good. However, the defect is that the windproof function is slightly inferior to the membrane windproof soft shell. More respected fabric windproof soft shell manufacturers have Patagonia and Outdoor Research.

But the fabric windproof can not completely block the wind attack, in the poor climate outdoor environment can not completely prevent the wind chill effect. The onset of wind chill effect will greatly reduce the body's sense of temperature, resulting in heat loss, and severe cases will cause temperature loss symptoms.

Therefore, the membrane windproof soft shell is inoculated, and the membrane windproof soft shell is pressed with the windproof breathable membrane in the face guess, which can well block the onset of the air cooling effect. The largest and best windproof breathable film on the market is Gore WindStopper. On the premise of ensuring good breathability, it achieves the most perfect windproof effect together, and has many different sub-models for customers to choose from for different sports. However, due to the influence of the structure, the air permeability of the membrane windproof soft shell is slightly inferior to that of the fabric windproof soft shell.

In the actual purchase, if the weather is fine, the temperature is high, no wind may be less wind environment can consider the selection of fabric windproof type of soft shell, in order to obtain the best air permeability. However, if it is advocated to select a membrane windproof soft shell using Gore WindStopper skills in an environment with high wind force or low temperature, in order to obtain the best windproof function and eradicate the onset of wind cooling effect.

If you are in an extremely cold, rainy and snowy outdoor environment, you should choose a hard-shell jacket. In order to get more protection. The waterproof function of hard-shell assault clothing is stronger than that of soft-shell assault clothing. Some hard-shell assault clothing has a windproof skirt at the waist to improve the windproof function of the trunk and further prevent the onset of wind cooling effect. Some hard-shell pants have "snow/mud covers" built into the legs and feet, which are more suitable for use in messy environments. Some of the polar environment, high wear-resistant planning requirements of the hard shell assault clothing, wear-resistant, durability is very impressive. However, the softness of hard-shell pants is poor throughout, and the breathability is slightly inferior to the film windproof soft shell, and the wearing comfort is relatively poor.

Hard-shell clothing is divided into two categories from the nature of waterproof membrane materials. One is a waterproof and breathable membrane composed of EPTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) microporous membrane, and the other is a PU waterproof and moisture-permeable coating composed of hydrophilic and moisture-permeable principle. The functions of these two waterproof membranes are quite different. PU coated waterproof fabric is limited by its own physical function, waterproof function is limited, breathable function is poor, low temperature function and durability is generally very bad. However, the performance of EPTFE microporous film fabric in these aspects is very excellent, among which the top representative is GORE-TEX? Pro products fabric, the waterproof function reaches 28000mm, and the air permeability index reaches 25000gr, which is very dazzling data.

Because of the huge difference in manufacturing costs, the price of the hard shell using EPTFE fabric is often higher than that of the hard shell of PU fabric, but the functional differences between the two are huge. In the case of economic conditions should try to choose the use of EPTFE fabric skills hard shell. Especially for high altitude and extremely cold environment activities should try to prevent the selection of PU fabric hard shell.

Due to the different needs of the user, the use of different environments. The hard shell fabric structure is thus subdivided into three types: three-layer adhesive structure, two-layer adhesive structure, and two-layer semi-adhesive structure.

Three-layer adhesive structure fabric: the surface layer, waterproof breathable membrane and warp knitted lining are tightly pressed into the whole fabric. The three-layer adhesive structure fabric has good wear resistance and durability. However, according to the different characteristics of the application environment, GORE subdivided and announced three different fabrics, namely, GORE-TEX? Pro products, GORE-TEX? products, GORE-TEX? Active products.

It has a high degree of breathability and waterproofness, and generally cooperates with a tough surface layer to bring greater wear resistance and durability. Suitable for wear in the rain, snow freezing pole climate, many days or weeks of outdoor activities.

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