Tactical Clothing is mostly about preference
I just got off the phone with a customer that asked me if we sold clothing that was “true to size” i informed him in the last 7yrs of selling tactical apparel, that I can’t answer that question because the times that I did, it was usually a customer looking for an answer so that if the clothing didn’t fit, he’d blame me for tell him that it would fit him. We’ve sold many Wilderness belts over the years and although we never get complaints about how the belts hold up, there are so many sizing issues with these belts that even The Wilderness has a disclaimer on the end of their order processing about not taking back returns.
The differences between Blackhawk, Tru Spec, 5.11 tactical, Woolrich Elite and even the rare inventory of Eotac clothing that is floating around can sometimes have more to do with quality control than original design differences. We’ve pruned much of our tactical clothing product lines and discontinued much of what got too many complaints about. The differences in fit between such things as tactical polos is considerable and we’ve always been a big fan of the Woolrich Elite product lines although tru-spec has gained some ground with us.