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Hi
I'm looking at getting a ladies Jottnar Fenrir down jacket but some of the reviews are making me question their sizing. One review said they were a size 10, 5' 4" and had to send the medium back for a large!
Looking at their size guide I should be a XS but I really hate sending things back .......
I ordered a medium, but have quite easily got away with a small, I think they're sized for layering, which I rarely do so I returned it. Great jacket though.
Speaking from a male perspective, I’ve got four items of Jöttnar clothing, three I bought some years back when they were just getting started, and as I tend to always buy XL, the older items are not what I’d call ‘baggy’. I’ve got a Polyester/Yak Wool base layer, I can’t remember the name, the label has fallen off, a Magni mid layer hooded jacket, a Fenrir down jacket, and a Fjorm down jacket.
All of them I bought through end of season sales, and they are obviously designed for layering, the Fenrir is just right with a base/mid underneath, as you’d expect. I buy everything in XL, mainly because I’ve got long arms, not because I’m particularly big built.
Also, women’s jackets tend to be a bit more form-fitting, I would honestly say get the size that appears to be right and try it, as a wise person once said, it’s the only way to be certain! 🙂
Wonderful stuff, I wore the Fenrir out for a long walk one afternoon, it was cool but cloudy, but got progressively murkier then started raining. The walk was about six-eight miles, I had to do the second half of it in persistent rain, but there were only a couple of small spots on the shoulder seams where moisture came through.
The level of water resistance for a down jacket impressed me immensely, I was expecting to be soaked by the time I got back to the car.
Not much help I know, but clothing that’s designed to be layered and not too lose fitting is very difficult to judge, I certainly couldn’t go down a size, the Fenrir I could possibly go up a size, but I only wear it with thin layers underneath. The Fjorm I could easily wear all three layers underneath, but it’s designed for that. I’m planning on a Norwegian cruise with Hurtigruten at some point, possibly a winter one, and the Fjorm at nearly half price was too good to pass on.
Thanks all. I've taken the plunge, I usually wear a base layer and a tight mid layer so hopefully it'll still fit. At 60% off it was cheaper than the Rab and Norrona alternatives (and I am beginning to look like I am Mrs Norrona).
Fingers crossed it turns up before Friday otherwise it will have to be delivered to a neightbour
A bit late, but my partner has one of the lighter weight Jottnar down jackets from a few years back - nice kit - and I'd say it fits her true to size in a trim way, so assuming the cut has remained similar, you should be okay. Her take is that a 'medium' in Jottnar is a size 10-12. She also wears 'medium' in Norrona fwiw.
People's idea of 'fit' is quite variable and relative to what they're used to from other / their usual brands. I just bought a men's ME Arrow Hooded Jacket and the ME site reviews were full of people saying they were cut far too small. and they'd had to go up a size. In reality, it's a perfectly standard, Mountain Equipment alpine fit, so quite fitted, but not undersized.
Also, mens's and women's fit from a particular brand can vary a fair bit. Depends on individual fit models, blocks and the brand.
Bear in mind too, that for a lot of brands, A US medium - for example - is equivalent to a UK/EU small, so with North American brands it's worth paying attention to their fit charts. I'm increasingly 'small' in some of them, despite the fact that I'm a bog standard UK medium. Obviously not relevant to Jottnar, which is a British brand with added weird Nordic nomenclature and good hats 🙂
I remembered taking one or two photos on the walk I mentioned, so I checked my photo library map, it was around Kelston and Saltford, and it was in November 2016, so three years after Jottnar started, and my jacket is nine years old! Bloody heck, how time flies!
Obviously not relevant to Jottnar, which is a British brand with added weird Nordic nomenclature and good hats ?
Can’t speak for their hats, but the naming thing comes from the winter training the two blokes who started the company did in Norway as Royal Marine Commandos, during which they hashed out ideas for what makes good extreme cold weather gear.
Let’s face it, that’s a good place to be spending time up to your armpits in snow wondering how to keep your bits toasty! And getting paid for it.