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For all of Amazon’s foibles—and trust us, there are many—the ‘Everything Store’ might be the only retailer actually worthy of that moniker. Spend a couple of hours poking around the e-comm behemoth’s menswear department, and you’re equally likely to encounter a bizarro knockoff sneaker as you are a GQ-approved budget ticker. For even the most grizzled online shoppers, keeping track of what’s where (and when) usually feels like playing the slots at Vegas: a total crapshoot.
Exhibit A: I definitely knew at some point that Arc’teryx was available on Amazon, but I’d be lying if I said I understood the sheer breadth and depth of the assortment. Which, to be clear, is sizable. Like, ‘everything you want from one of the raddest outerwear brands on the planet’ sizable.
That reminder felt extra relevant this week because, to paraphrase Mark Twain, I counted 136 different kinds of weather yesterday afternoon alone, and pretty much all of said Arc’teryx gear is eligible for Prime shipping. TL;DR: Amazon now stocks Arc’teryx, and given the weather fluctuations I figured you should know about it.
I’m not talking about last-season’s dregs, either, or a dubiously-named diffusion line of less-than-enticing basics. I’m talking about pure, USDA-choice Arc’teryx—the kind of gear as useful on a sun-withered trail as it is on a dank spring commute. The legendary Beta Jacket, a rain jacket that’s statistically likely to outperform roughly 99% off other rain jackets, is available in all its 3L Gore-Tex glory—and in six different colorways, no less. The 850-fill Cerium Hoody, a perennial GQ-editor favorite [editor’s note: can confirm] is available in your choice of five colors, too.
Ditto both the Atom Hoody and Atom Jacket, each next-level, Swiss Army Knife-like layers with the chops to become your go-to from the jump. Heck, I’m wearing the Cormac T-Shirt as I type this—also on Amazon, in six colors—and I legitimately can’t remember ever feeling close to damp with it protecting my skin. (I’ve worn it rock climbing in weather most people would classify as “too hot to be enjoyable,” so you could say I’ve done my own field testing.)
What you choose to do with this information, of course, is entirely up to you. But in our neck of the woods, “Wait, Arct’teryx is on Amazon?” is a Pulitzer-worthy scoop. In lieu of a prize (if not the Prize), all I ask is that you politely refrain from showering in your new jacket.
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