Take yourself out on the hills these days, particularly in the more popular areas, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that many of your fellow walkers had escaped from a fashion catwalk, rather than were out to climb a hill. And, strike up a conversation and you are as likely to end up discussing the relative merits of your techno layers, as the view from the summit.
Now, while it’s obviously good that there are far fewer ill-equipped people in jeans and trainers on the hillsides, have we now actually gone a bit too far in our love-affair with designer labels and, more importantly, how many of them fulfil their stated function and are worth anything like their high outlay? Continue reading “Outdoor gear: is the great outdoors the new designer catwalk?”