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Faherty’s Legend Sweatshirt Flannel (left) uses exposed overstitched seams, while Patagonia (right) has fully flat-felled, double-stitched seams. The 220 g/m² fabric has an aged, dusty hue, like it’s seen a few sunbaked afternoons at the beach, Modelos optional. The raised fibers trap air warmed from your body and work best as an insulator when worn under a jacket that can keep that warm air from flushing away.
Fitting more like a cardigan sweater, the midweight material is ideally worn alone for fall and spring and layers well under a jacket or thicker shacket in cooler winter. Many shirts use a more common overlock or surge stitch, where the two opposing panels are butted together and stitched, leaving the seam’s edge exposed on the inside. Our ding on the otherwise fantastic shirt is we found the collar can get a little limp — something we see on all lighter-weight cotton flannels. But it isn’t great in a shirt, and we’ve seen why in other heavy-weight shirts that flat-fell the arms to the torso. You see roping in denim jeans, where the dye fades away in high-stress areas to reveal the underlying white cotton.These include our soft and fluffy Royal Egyptian Luxury Towels along with the Institutional Face Cloths perfect for clients that need a 5* treatment.
To be clear, Devium isn’t truly Berry-Certified (and the SeaBees aren’t swinging iron in Boca flannels). They come in different sizes and colours, so you can pick something comfortable for your skin and stylish for your bathroom. We tested flannels daily at the office, and through the weekend, grinding through chores like cleaning the garage, raking leaves, or simply walking the dog on cool summer mornings.Graepel has worked at GearJunkie as a contributing editor since 2009, testing everything from packrafts, to bike bags, sleeping bags, winter boots, and trail runners.