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The new FuseForm Brigandine 3L jacket (RRP £ 420.00) from The North Face is a distinctly different proposition to most ski jackets on the market at present.
Developed as part of the company’s Steep Series® range together with the company’s elite snowsports athletes, the immediately obvious difference when you first try it on is the outer fabric used, The north Face’s revolutionary FuseForm™ fabric technology.
This gives the Brigandine jacket an increased four-way stretch for added mobility which essentially means that as well as being fully snow and weather proof, it moves to accommodate any twists and turns your body makes.
There are also fewer seams and the jacket has been engineered abrasion zones that reinforce high-wear areas within an equipment-driven design to integrate seamlessly with backpacks.
It’s therefore no surprise that the jacket, available in sizes S to XL and in ‘Cosmic Blue’ or ‘Zion Organe’ won the Red Dot Award 2015 for High Design Quality.