More and more options for tactical clothing, but does the quality suck?
I answered an email from a customer that ordered several styles of shirts from us but they complained that they ordered all of the same sizes, but the fit was not the same. We’ve been in the clothing business for long enough to know that sometimes styles and sizes get mislabeled and your wifes home cooking skills did not advance you to the larger sizes. All clothing manufacturers claim to be durable and consistent but the truth is that this is not a reality. The same company may have variations in sizes and might even change the quality of the fabric just to save a few bucks. Some clothing makers even out source stuff which compounds the quality control issues.
Making good clothing is a talent and you can have the best designs in a tactical pant but then wreck it with poor quality and poor consistency. I’ve heard rock albums get ruined by bad mixing or poor recording. Look at the And Justice for All album from Metallica and how many bass players are still pissed off at the bad mixing that went on. The point is that great talent still gets wasted on tactical pants and tactical shirts. There are some really nice CCW shirts from Blackhawk and 5.11 but sometimes when you hold them in your hands they don’t feel as good as they look.