My dream jacket with a small trade-off
I love the Arthur Longo Gore-Tex jacket so much!
Great timeless design and simple but very thoughtful details, especially the hand cuffs and the pocket-internal bottom zip-cords. Although the hood has no neck-fixing it suits perfect, even with helmet... and you can get it zipped-off. Great!
The proprietary zip tech construction, which enables you to zip the powder skirt of my Longo snow jacket to a Volcom snow pant is sub-optimal. In any case you need to have a Volcom snow pant to get full functionality. But in my case I had to wind around a lot to zip it up and then you have to fiddle around to get it off again. A bit annoying when you are in a hurry for toilets or the apres-ski bar ;-) ... magnetic snaps (eg. from Fidlock) for faster and secure connection between powder skirt and pants would be more comfy. But to mention, the jacket's flexy powder skirt textile works just fine without being zipped to the pant.
Best regards, Peter