Filson quality is gone.....

[35 Whelen]

My gosh didn't realize that the once great Seattle company is now having their best
Wool coats , made In Vietnam!!!! So for $700
you will recieve a jacket made overseas that is NOT the quality your expecting. Horrible to see what is happening in this country.
Don't buy one, you will be disappointed.

 

[JD338]

I always liked that coat. The price really went up on it!

JD338

 

[RL338]

Just wait until the liberal electric ships have to travel across the ocean , that’s when sticker shock will kick in.

 

[35 Whelen]

I have one that is around 30 years old, used to be my go to for,early King Salmon fishing on Kodiak, in early spring. Old timers all said get a " double mackinaw" you will never regret it. That WAS true. However this is a very different coat at an astronomical price for folks that are all about the label......
Darn shame.
E

 

[clearwater]

Vietnam is the place that killed most US outdoor gear makers. More than China. I can’t compete with Sewists who make $65 a (72 hour) week

Also Woolrich. I have worn out several of their Alaskan shirts in may life. Not make anymore. They make fashion clothes from Italy.

 

[salmonchaser]

Had a pair of tin pants I bought back in the 70s last for 30 years pheasant hunting. Bought a new pair 8 or 9years ago when I was guiding upland hunts. Threw them away at the end of the season, went with Carharts after that. I still have a Mackinaw that I bought in 1975. Still serviceable.

 

[EOD Diver]

Filson’s first order of business when the company sold was to hike prices across the board. What a shame to see the icon do this.
V/R,
Joe

 

[300WSM]

Filson is no different than most other once great ALL AMERICAN companies.

The quality is there but you have to be very careful when shopping these places. Example..

I only wear Danner boots. Made in USA danners. Work or hunt...USA Danners for me. At one time this was all they made but not anymore. I can spot the imports a mile away but not everyone can. Danner at the very least still makes boots in the USA but you have to select a tab on their website to see the USA boots.

The imported boots are absolute garbage. They all come from the same shop...like AshaOptik where they make all of the Swift,tasco,bushnell,simmons,and so on and so on ...same plant. Different boxing and etching.

Boots same way. Imported boots all out the same plant. Glued garbage. Rocky, Wolverine, Hermans, Timbeland, etc etc etc, they are all a disposable boot that is just dying to leak on you in 8 months.

I have 20 year old Santiams rom Danner that still stay dry and keep my trucking up the mountain. I have other work boots that get recon every few years.

 

[300WSM]

Had a pair of tin pants I bought back in the 70s last for 30 years pheasant hunting. Bought a new pair 8 or 9years ago when I was guiding upland hunts. Threw them away at the end of the season, went with Carharts after that. I still have a Mackinaw that I bought in 1975. Still serviceable.

Double tin is what you would want.

I last purchased some double tin chaps around 2005. They're like iron.

I can't say of the double tin quality of today but I can tell you there was a big difference between single tin and double tin.

It's easy to confuse the two as often times they're are not even labeled double or single.

Perhaps you had double tin in the 70's and recently got the single tin without knowing you had double tin in the 70's.

Just a thought.

 

[300WSM]

My gosh didn't realize that the once great Seattle company is now having their best
Wool coats , made In Vietnam!!!! So for $700
you will recieve a jacket made overseas that is NOT the quality your expecting. Horrible to see what is happening in this country.
Don't buy one, you will be disappointed.View attachment 22167

as I mentioned above you have to look very carefully and you can in fact find stuff made right here by our beloved American brethren...

As example...

Here is a coat that's I'd take over the one you posted...


And it is made right here..


Just have to take a little extra time and look thoroughly.

Lined Mackinaw Wool Packer Coat

Our Lined Wool Packer Coat is a double-layer wool coat pulled from our archives and available in a special-edition seasonal plaid color. Based on our original 1914-patented Mackinaw Wool Cruiser, this warm coat retains the Cruiser’s full complement of pockets and adds a double-layer cape over...

www.filson.com

 

[salmonchaser]

Double tin is what you would want.

I last purchased some double tin chaps around 2005. They're like iron.

I can't say of the double tin quality of today but I can tell you there was a big difference between single tin and double tin.

It's easy to confuse the two as often times they're are not even labeled double or single.

Perhaps you had double tin in the 70's and recently got the single tin without knowing you had double tin in the 70's.

Just a thought.

Hence my dismay. Both were double Tin; Catherine had a set of tin pants she got in the late 70s they are battered but she wore them for most of her field work. While still 505 and 117-120 at 65 they no longer fit quite right. Grand daughter is 16 and has inherited Gmas tin britches. She thinks they are way cool.
Filson was a rite of passage growing up in the NorthWest and Alaska. I wore my wool coat on every hunting trip into the early 90s I think. Some where along there I started paying for the “new stuff” Thinsulate and Goretex. Unless it was poring rain I never wore raingear, 40 degrees and a light all day rain typical in western Oregon or Southeast Alaska was no match for Filson. Snowing all day, hunting elk in the Blues or Hells Canyon, no match for Filson. Their stuff was relatively expensive then, I always wondered how a company could stay in business when a guy like me, doing what I did wearing their gear, could sell enough to stay in business.
I still wear my Filson coat around the farm when it’s cold; it smells something awful when it rains on me. Don’t think it’s ever been washed. Thinking about buying a new one, I figure at 69 it should last the rest of the ride.

 

[300WSM]

Hence my dismay. Both were double Tin; Catherine had a set of tin pants she got in the late 70s they are battered but she wore them for most of her field work. While still 505 and 117-120 at 65 they no longer fit quite right. Grand daughter is 16 and has inherited Gmas tin britches. She thinks they are way cool.
Filson was a rite of passage growing up in the NorthWest and Alaska. I wore my wool coat on every hunting trip into the early 90s I think. Some where along there I started paying for the “new stuff” Thinsulate and Goretex. Unless it was poring rain I never wore raingear, 40 degrees and a light all day rain typical in western Oregon or Southeast Alaska was no match for Filson. Snowing all day, hunting elk in the Blues or Hells Canyon, no match for Filson. Their stuff was relatively expensive then, I always wondered how a company could stay in business when a guy like me, doing what I did wearing their gear, could sell enough to stay in business.
I still wear my Filson coat around the farm when it’s cold; it smells something awful when it rains on me. Don’t think it’s ever been washed. Thinking about buying a new one, I figure at 69 it should last the rest of the ride.

I can't speak to those specific tin pants.
Did they have a problem run on some material? Who knows. I'm in business and mishaps can happen.
It's how it's handled after the fact that matters to a degree as well.

Have you reached out to them? I have found Danner and Filson to be very accommodating if a problem arises.