[Closed] Really warm cheap fleece jackets

Would a Buffalo jacket work for you?

On the workwear tip, my BiL gave me a padded gilet/bodywarmer from his work (kitchen firm) which is bloody brilliant for general insulation over a sweater or hoody.

Normal cotton facing rather than polyester and with useful hand and breast pockets, and really good for working in because your arms are less restricted than in a jacket.

Would be ideal in a factory setting IMO.

Cheap and warm

I got one of these last Autumn. Really thick, I wear it a lot when standing around watching daughter's football.

What do you guys actually do? Doesn't sound like it's just office work?

To be honest, a cheap no name 200 or 300 weight fleece would be fine, as would a cheap insulated jacket. Depends also if you want corporate branding on it

The issue that you have it anything properly warm will have some thickness to it.
And to be properly warm you need windproofing.

I agree with Scotroute's Buffalo suggestion, maybe a Rab VR Guide.
Also look up a pertex outer for the fluffy fleece, they are more flexible and less bulky than full waterrpoof.

I also would suggest looking at your baselayer (top and bottom)- a huge amount of warmth can be had by a good skin tight but lofty inner - I wear Helly Hansen Warm Hybrid and Patagucci Expedition Weight. Bang for buck and slimmer than another fleece, IMO they are more important than the midlayer.

Fleece is dead cheap, so any cheap fleece is basically good as an insulation layer. Putting a windproof layer on top essentially stabilises it. If you don't have a windproof then your warmth is dependent on how much air flow there is at any given time. So your best option is to have a thinner insulation layer and a windproof layer.

Insulation fleece is pretty much the same, as are windproof layers. There'll be no difference in warmth between a £15 pertex and a £10 fleece with something much more expensive. Your extra money goes on extra features like style, cut, mobility, draughtproofing and so on.

If you want cheap kit go to Mountain Warehouse. Their stuff is surprisingly good and of course cheap. Otherwise, Go Outdoors or somewhere with the usual Peter Storm/Regatta stuff - it's much better kit than it used to be and represents great value for money.

£15 pertex

it's not 1992 any more

A favourite fleece for the bike years ago was a Gore windstopper. Admittedly I got it in a millets sale at half price, but it was really good(pit zips, loads of pockets etc, that i pretty much wore it to death.

I think for one today you'll be paying the same price as a buffalo shirt.

, I thought I’d get some fleeces like this for the staff to chuck on when it’s colder.

Did you actually read his post?

Some few good suggestions (thanks!) and a few more "didn't actually read the post" fails! 😉

Don't need anything windproof because we're indoors. Can be super thick (needs to be to be warm) because we won't be needing to put other stuff over the top (other than a company hoody but we have them in big sizes). I used to wear a Buffalo S6 Shirt every day for work!

My default clothing here is Five-tens, thick socks, MTB baggy shorts, t-shirt, thin grid fleece, monkey man fleece, oversized hoody. If it's really really cold I've got some of those Decathlon MTB trousers to put over the top of the shorts.

Mountain Warehouse suggestion is good - this looks like a copy of the Monkey Man:

https://www.mountainwarehouse.com/whitby-mens-borg-fleece-jacket-p37290.aspx/black/

"What do you guys actually do? Doesn’t sound like it’s just office work?"

We design, manufacture and sell these: https://barefacedaudio.com/

If you don't mind black or green the Decathlon fleeces from the hunting range, Solognac, are cheap, warm and comfy.

Cheaper than the hiking/walking models but do the job really well.

When in environmental consultancy many moons ago, we had some from Arco that had a tightly knitted, tougher outer and a thick pile inner. Similar to you, needed something warm and not matter if it got covered in muck etc. So maybe look at workwear/ PPE providers. I can't see anything like it on their site now though.

Big heavyweight fleece is pretty much all the same. Your monkey man fleece is not a normal fleece, that's more like high loft

Something like a 300 wt fleece is plenty warm enough. If you get them branded with the corporate logo or similar they'll look fairly smart.

Something like this - https://www.workwearexpress.com/result-work-guard-heavy-duty-microfleece

“didn’t actually read the post” fails! 😉

I put my hands up here,, only read the cheap fleeces needed. But in my defence whats cheap. There was someone on here the other day looking to spend £2250 on a camera 😯

Or £500 on a tent.

Fruit of the loom is somewhere I got a bunch of company shirts made. I had another company take the letters of the company name like a crossword fit the wearers name into it. So in Samsons Joinery, we had Stevie. So like a crossword it had-

SAMSONS JOINERY

T

E

V

I

E

written out like that i thought it was a nice personal touch and not too expensive really Everyone's name was kind of incorporated into the company name.

Use to work outside on farms and we were issued a branded up version of these:

Arco Essentials Unisex Navy Fleece Jacket | Arco Essentials | Work Jackets & Coats | Arco

Also can get black & green. We all loved them....so much so, when I wanted a fleece for just in the house we bought them again (and for a few quid more, you can have have your name/company etc stitched on). Just ordered one for my wife and it arrived very quickly and they didnt even charge any P&P