The New SCOTTeVEST Is Here!

[Brad Adrian]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/30_index.shtml' target='_blank'>http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/30_index.shtml</a><br /><br /></div>What's the one thing that is ALMOST as exciting as getting a new Pocket PC? It's getting a new way to carry a Pocket PC! Scott Jordan has just announced the arrival of the new <a href="http://www.scottevest.com/pressrelease/version_three_release.html">version 3.0 SCOTTeVESTs</a>!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/adrian/eVest_xray.jpg" /><br /> <br />In case you're new to Pocket PC Thoughts and have no idea how much <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15126">I LOVE my SCOTTeVESTs</a>, here are some of the features of this new version of the vest:<br /><br />• 28+ Pockets<br />• Pen/stylus pocket<br />• Magnetic-closure wind flap<br />• ID holder<br />• Hat holder<br />• Hidden epaulets<br />• secret pockets<br />• ...and more<br /><br />You can get v3.0 of the SCOTTeVEST in an <a href="http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/30_index.shtml">assortment of fabrics and styles</a>. Prices range from $129.99 to $400.00 (for the leather version).<br /><br />And, in case you think I'm all alone in my enthusiasm for the SCOTTeVEST, it just so happens that they've become common attire among "law enforcement officers, including the C.I.A., F.B.I., Secret Service, and other branches of the newly formed Homeland Defense Department." So, book me, Dan-O. Fashion in the first degree!<br /><br />P.S. Watch here for a thorough review of this vest soon!

[manywhere]

Nope, you're certainly not alone in your enthusiasm, I love mine TOO! :lol:

Although, I've only got the version 2.5 and I guess that will have to do for now... or, until there is a ScottEwinter (or something like that) for those cold Finnish winter months. *shivers already* -20C is not good for my iPaq 3870's screen; the " s l o w m o t i o n " effect can be annoying but what can I do with a limited amount of pockets in my winter jacket. :eek:

I'd also love to try out the new eVest, but no-can-do when I'm on the other side of the Atlantic... :cry:

[Deslock]

I got my SportTEC yesterday (when it hit $80 on close-out, I decided it was time to try it out). Here are some quick comments:

The craftsmanship is good (made in Korea, BTW). The jacket is very comfortable and well designed. I wore the vest-portion all day and it was nice to know where all my crap was (keys, wallet, PPC, cell phone, headphones, cell headset, leatherman, sunglasses). I shoved my laptop in the back-pocket to show off the vest to my-coworkers, but it realistically doesn't work well for that (no padding, too much weight in the back, and you can't lean back when you sit down). However, the back pouch holds a 175g frisbee nicely (still can't lean back when you sit, but it's good for walking around with it). The right side pockets can hold one or two .5 liter water bottles, though two bottles is too much weight for comfort.

The SportTEC is very lightweight and should be usable almost year-round here in New England (as an outer layer in the spring/fall and under a coat in the winter... Summer will be too hot). I'm gonna bike to work with it on as soon as there's a day without rain in the forecast.

Minor complaints:
- The headphones cord loops don't stretch enough for me to pass my Koss KSC50s ear-clips (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MNHL/qid=1061893517/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-8221792-2603815) through if I store one on each side. Also, the earbud pockets are a little small for the headphones (they barely squeeze in). I tried storing both headphones on the same side, but that was less convenient (allowed me to use the cord loop, but then I wasn't able to use the earbud pockets (had to store both headphones in the upper pouch on one side) and unwrapping the cord was more involved.
- There's no padding anywhere. It'd be nice if one of the PDA-sized pockets had some padding, or if they included a couple removable padded pouches that were designed to fit in one or two of the specific pockets. As is, when I take the jacket off, I have to be careful not to bump my iPaq against anything (sure, I could put it in a carrying case, but that's a lot less convenient).

Anyway, I highly recommend it.

[heov]

here's the gadgeteer's review in case anyone is interested.

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/v3.0-scottevest-review.html

[scott911]

Thanks for the post!! Thanks for the Post! Check out our new game: http://www.scottevest.com/v3_community/game.shtml High score each month wins a free SeV.

It's addictive. Forward it to friends.

Post questions here.

[gorkon280]

The 2.0 vests are on clearance for 69 bucks! Although there's only XS and XXXL in Black..all sizes in Olive. I should have mine waiting for me when I get home from work! :rock on dude!: 0X I can't wait til the three.0's come down next year! :) I want a red one! So I take it from someone else on here that the eVests have no warmth? I hope not! We'll keep a hold of my old jacket just in case. I suppose I can always zip the sleeves off and put it on over my warm jacket or maybe just wear a sweater under my eVest! WHOOHOO!

The note about padding: That's an excellent idea! I wish they would have matching PDA sleeves to put your PDA in and then fit in the pocket. For now, I will be Ok with putting it in one of the chest pockets and be careful. Anyone out there see some foam already in a PDA shape or a cheap sleeve case to add some padding to the eVest's pocket??

[Cyberjoy]

I ordered an olive 2.0 version of the Scottevest. I like the design. The reason that I ordered a 2.0 version is because of the color olive. I don't like the black ones.

By the way Scot. You did not reply to my e-mail about writing a review of the scottevest for the Pocket PC-Club/Smartphone-Club in the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). To bad :(. We got almost 6000 members and still growing, should be interesting enough for you?

Anyway I don't wanna get offtopic ofcourse! I got an email this morning that my jacket will be here tomorrow. Can't wait to try the jacket!

Wouter.

[scott911]

Sorry if you didn't get a response. It must have slipped through the cracks. We primarily focus our media outreach on the US market for now. It is way too expensive to send samples overseas, and rarely get them back. I hope you understand. Please email me directly if you would like to discuss this.

Thanks.

[scott911]

http://www.scottevest.com/htmlemail/august2003/index.html

[yawanag]

I could see myself in this vest, but then I'm one of few women who get turned on by electronics. You have to drag me out of Best Buy and Circuit City.

But I'm going to step on some toes and say this vest is another proof of THIS IS A MAN'S WORLD

How 'bout a Barb-e-Vest. Pockets would hold curling irons, pockets for blush, lipstick, hair spray, nail file, and ad infinitum. Oh, it would hold my PDA too, one must have a mirror (the PDA screen) to put on my makeup. :twisted:

[DimensionZero]

Man, I'd love to get one of my own! Definately getting added to my wishlist this year! hehe. I have Christmas AND a brithday coming up!! Double my chances heh.

I was talking to a friend about this and just think if you were wearing the jacket and fleece at an airport getting ready to board your flight.

You reach the metal detector and you have to unload yer 42 pockets! haha. That'll be fun!

[ctmagnus]

I was talking to a friend about this and just think if you were wearing the jacket and fleece at an airport getting ready to board your flight.

You reach the metal detector and you have to unload yer 42 pockets! haha. That'll be fun!

Take the jacket off and put it through the metal detector. :wink:

[scott911]

see http://www.scottevest.com/v3_press/in_the_news.shtml or
http://www.scottevest.com/v3_press/in_the_news_archive.shtml
http://www.scottevest.com/community/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=b54eeeb2f9efae5cb9ef7e8d6755a8d2&forumid=9

[RoadWired]

Though I am a regular reader and fan of PPCT, I very...very, very... rarely chime in on forums (or is the correct Latin "fora"? :wink: ), because my personal preference as a product manufacturer and supplier is to take a back seat and respect/observe what consumers and others have to say (good or bad), rather than trying to insert myself in discussions and risk appearing too "commercial." That's just me...hope that makes sense.

In this case, however, I couldn't resist putting in my 2 cents. But first, full disclosure: I have no financial interest in Scott eVest whatsoever, don't make a penny if one is sold. But I am both a friend of Scott Jordan and an (unpaid) advisor to his company, so you are welcome to discount my opinion as ridiculously biased. But if you know me (Scott will vouch for this), you will know that I call 'em like I see 'em, and I am nauseatingly honest in business and everything else. 'Nuff said.

I simply want to vouch, as an expert, for the quality of the products that Scott has put out. I have been in the sewn goods business most of my adult life, and in fact, prior to starting RoadWired, I made professional camera bags and along with them, the best-selling photographer's vests in the world. So I do know from whence I speak. I got one of the first SeV's 2 or 3 years ago, before I knew Scott, and was impressed. I have seen every model since, and I must say I think the design, details, aesthetics and overall quality are outstanding and evolving with every new generation.

One thing I know for sure is that not everyone will love every product, though we designers try hard to please as many people as we can. What is perfect for some may be... well...not perfect for others. In the case of outer garments, it is particularly challenging because you are dealing with individual comfort and related preferences in the context of infinite variables of weather and conditions, and other very subjective things. The SeV, in my opinion, is designed first for utility, then for fashion, then for "elemental" protection, with comfort being an obvious priority throughout. Though the various models do work very well in a wide variety of weather conditions, none of them (again, in my opinion) is intended to be an ideal all-in one raincoat, windbreaker, winter coat, light weather jacket, insulator, etc... and I don't know that I own any other garments that fit that bill either.

Last but not least, the value issue. As someone who also makes rather high-end, "boutique" products in smallish, mostly hand-crafted (as in, people sitting at regular sewing machines, not robots) quantities, I can tell you that it ain't cheap. Non-mass-market companies like ours do the best we can to make the very best product at the best price possible, without cutting corners or using inferior parts or materials (I can tell you a ton of ways that corners are cut by folks in the sewing business, that you might never notice, but I'll spare you the details) We put a modest margin on so that we can make our living, and do the best we can to be competitive within our categories. But at the end of the day, good stuff costs what it costs to make, and--at least when dealing with good companies--you do get what you pay for. I can certainly say that, compared to $139 for a gajillion-pocket Scott eVest, I have spent a heck of a lot more on pieces of clothing that offered a heck of a lot less. Slap a designer name on something, and a $2 potato sack becomes a $500 couture frock, if you know what I mean ;-).

I hope I haven't overstayed my welcome as a "novice" forum contributor, and I hope you accept my feedback as credible. I know how hard Scott works on these products, and he doesn't need me to stick up for him, but hey, what are Scott eFriends for? Thanks, all!

[maximus]

Well. I live in a tropical country (hot, dense, humid). Putting something like that on me will cause excessive sweating. How about an e-vest with embedded small freon cooler, eh, scott ? :D That would really sell in my part of the world.

[ctmagnus]

How about an e-vest with embedded small freon cooler, eh, scott ? :D That would really sell in my part of the world.

Or something like a Windshirt (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=152905#152905)? :mrgreen:

[Abba Zabba]

I just really want a collar on my jacket...anyonw else :?:

[gorkon280]

Mr. Spera has clearly used and studied the vest thoroughly, and of course is entitled to his opinion. It's not my intention to dismiss or discount it. But one thing I know for sure is that not everyone will love every product, though we designers try hard to please as many people as we can. What is perfect for some may be... well...not perfect for others.

Lots of good points but I wanted to clip out and post to what I am going to refer (Your reply to Chris's comments). I agree with you on every point and I would also like to add that one cannot dismiss and entire line of jackets just because one model did not perform as expected or did not look like you thought it would when loaded down.

I own a 2.0 and I love it very much. It will provide me with a nice vest/jacket to use most of the fall and it will also help by adding pockets for my Walkman, PDA, MP3 player and a Amateur Radio HT.

I think the biggest problem with ScotteVest is not the product, but that you cannot try on a very personal thing before you buy it. It's very important that a jacket be comfortable. Otherwise, why woud you wear it? I think that Scott needs to get more retail exposure. I might add that I made a special trip to look at the coats to the International Spy Museum (I was already in town and planned to hit the museum just to look at the coat) and it would REALLY help if they would actually have them! They had ONE. And it was a size small. If it was a XXXL, I would have bought it then as it was very nice. I ended up ordering one when I got home. Mail order is good for somethings, but for clothing is difficult. Try to get these in the Sharper Image or Brookstone or even a bigger retailer if you can. I showed the one at the museum to a few folks when I was standing there (not geeks) and they loved it and almost bought it. Add to that that the museum had sold out of and was waiting for more tells me this thing will sell in regular places like what I had described. It's my hope that by version 4, it's available more then on the web site and the spy museum because some prospective buyers would not buy something like this over the net. Gotta be able to try it on if you know what I mean!

Even better would be if Scott would license the pan and other TEC items to a bigger manufacturer like Columbia. Columbia would be a excellent candidate as the coats they make are already in the same price range. Buy a system and you have a interchange coat that is very similar to the Columbia Interchange in coats like their double whammy and others. Scott is not the only one charging a similar price for a coat. Columbias can be anywhere from 150 to as much as 300 or more. BOTH are very finely made.

I am not surprised that the sportec you tried was like this. It's the lightest one that they have made up to the new fleece ones. It's more like the wind shirt then any of them. To expect it to work like other coats is expecting to much of the sportec in my humble opinion. Maybe you should have asked for the 2.0 version? I dunno. The 3.0 is very impressive. And it also appears that Scott is willing to work things out. Something you'd never hear from Coluumbia.

[hollis_f]

I was talking to a friend about this and just think if you were wearing the jacket and fleece at an airport getting ready to board your flight.

You reach the metal detector and you have to unload yer 42 pockets! haha. That'll be fun! I love my eVests for travelling. Not only can I fit loads of stuff in there (last year a friend was told their hand luggage was overweight - so we transferred about 3kg of stuff to my pockets) but it makes it so much easier to go through security. Everything metal goes in the vest and the vest goes through the X-ray machine.

Now if only I could do an upgrade and get a leather one in part exchange for my v1 and v2 vests :wink:

[maximus]

How about an e-vest with embedded small freon cooler, eh, scott ? :D That would really sell in my part of the world.

Or something like a Windshirt (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=152905#152905)? :mrgreen:

:p

Seriously, we saw people invented strange stuffs, but not a freon cooled vest. Wonders why. If anyone can make one with decent price and easy usage, that person will be the next Mr. Gates.

[dh]

I love my eVests for travelling. Not only can I fit loads of stuff in there (last year a friend was told their hand luggage was overweight - so we transferred about 3kg of stuff to my pockets) but it makes it so much easier to go through security. Everything metal goes in the vest and the vest goes through the X-ray machine.
Which brings me to something really annoying.
If my bag is a couple of pounds overweight, I might be carrying some equipment or tools, I pay more.
The guy next to me, who weighs 200lbs more than me and takes up half my seat, doesn't pay a penny extra.

[maximus]

Which brings me to something really annoying.
If my bag is a couple of pounds overweight, I might be carrying some equipment or tools, I pay more.
The guy next to me, who weighs 200lbs more than me and takes up half my seat, doesn't pay a penny extra.

Ha ha ha. So you are suggesting airline passangers to be charged per lbs of body weight ? :rotfl:

[scott911]

FYI: The Limited Edition Leather shipped out early yesterday. http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/30_leather.shtml

We are in the process of changing the website to indicate they are in.

They look AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Scott