Spaceman’s Review: 634 Windbreaker
If this isn’t unbiased, I dunno what is.
In all seriousness, I’m going to try and make this review as objective as possible because I’ve been wearing this thing for a while now and I’d like to share my thoughts on it.
So the windbreaker was born, like all great things. out of necessity. Basically I have a bad habit of wanting to wear a jacket literally everywhere. It’s an effect of having a single civie outfit in the Navy. Even at work, I have an outfit that consists of black pants, some form of polo shirt, and a jacket. This is my outfit, and it’s rules are unyielding. That led to one of my coworker’s (Kayrene) bugging the ever loving hell out of me until I got some kinda jacket I could wear in the summer. Can’t say she was wrong.
Ok so here I am looking for a windbreaker or something like a light hoodie. Criteria was: it had to be a light fabric, machine washable, comfortable, and relatively durable. I realized pretty quickly I didn’t just want a random thing off Amazon, and the CVW-20 was I think a month old at this point. Looking into the options we went for this windbreaker with a DTG printing style, and it went through some SERIOUS revisions. It went from having a giant 634 patch on the back to just a simple patch on the right breast, which is pretty common design language from us.
Ok, so how did it hold up on arrival? Well, not terribly. When I said it’s light fabric it’s extremely light. It’s 100% polyester and it holds up shockingly well. For a solid week I just tried ripping it in different ways, and I’m not gonna pretend it’s invulnerable, but it’s not just gonna disintegrate. The stitching is fine. It’s about on par with my old NWUs. I’d say the biggest issue is the printing itself which had this tiny white border around the outside where the decal doesn’t completely cover the underlying material. Otherwise, everything is pretty solid. It reminds me a lot of my old PTU tracksuit.
In terms of price, we’re pretty much at cost for these. I think they’re more or less competitive with other windbreakers in the wild. The only part that bugs me is that this windbreaker isn’t available outside of the US. I have no idea why. All I know is we can’t sell it, and I can not for the life of me comprehend the reason.
All in all, if you’re in the US, and you want a comfy windbreaker for flying days, I’d say this is pretty solid. You can pick it up from our merch store here, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
