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I do t know how we collectively missed this, my Buffalo is obviously not cutting it …

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/jul/26/what-to-wear-for-a-...

"What wear for a hike?"

Oh dear, that's going to upset the curmudgeons...

Wow..... haha

Good find this! 

Barmy how this stuff is actually published 😆

I can't believe there is no mention of RonHills! Preferably actual vintage ones from the 90's which are now slightly baggy.

This from the same publication that has for the third time shown up on my FB feed with an article about how to avoid the crowds in the Pennines by heading for Snowdonia.

How did they get access to my wardrobe?!? That is exactly what I wear when I go on a hike! I might need to change my style now that you will all be copying me!

"Put your best food [sic!] forward with our crop of walking gear"

I hate it when I snub the toe of my food after getting of the wrong side of my bad in the morning and not wearing my crops...

"Sam Deaman is fashion assistant across the Guardian and Observer"

I thought they were a LLM bot at first, but then there would have been much more text in the article, and better written as well. So, "fashion assistant" is the new buzzword for unpaid summer intern, then?

£175 for a bucket hat?!

I like one of the.articles is a plastic free t-shirt. Maybe like one made of cotton??

The orange bumbag (or cross body as they call it) is only £255, bargain.

If I were a cynic, I might suggest that they get these things for free and in return promote them. 

But, if one has to hike from the Range Rover, across the village green, to the boutique hotel, this is what one should be wearing.

TBF - if you look at this article in terms of ‘going for a hike’ and the American approach that you see when it’s ‘celebs’ going for a wander in the LA/Hollywood hills, this kit is bang on especially as this is what the terms of reference will be for the author and their target reader, not us hairy ME/Ron Hill/Bufallo/Patagucci/Rab bargain bucket and cast-off wearing fashion abominations.

Were they wrong? 😁

With all those choices at least:

1) The footwear seems sensible

2) Easily spotted if things go wrong

I can't prove it but I suspect that for every person climbing the highest hill in the Pennines there will be hundreds climbing the highest hill in Snowdonia.

Better or worse?

That was the first thing that struck me. If you want to wear that hat, you should be paying a fiver for it and spending the rest on party drugs and bottled water.

Nit picking a bit, but I suspect most cotton t-shirts wouldn't be 'plastic free' on account of being sewn together with polyester thread.

Undoubtedly, maybe you missed my humour point that in Snowdonia you would be avoiding the Pennine crowds.

It's the way you tell 'em.  

They come over even worse in person 😁

"Hiking shoes" THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY quid? REALLY?

Um ... I can't think the absence of overtrousers suggests this stuff is more suitable for walking down the high street than on High Street.