Description of Marmot Venus Down Jacket - Women's:
Wear the Marmot Women's Venus Down Jacket alone when you're scurrying from bar to bar under a clear moonlit sky or wear it under a shell for added warmth when the pressure drops and the clouds dump their loads. Marmot stuffed this jacket full of super-warm 800-fill down, but the Venus stays slim and lightweight so you can use it as a layering piece, or as a just-in-case insulator waiting in the bottom of your pack. Downproof fabric keeps down insulation from sneaking out of the jacket while the Angel Wing arm construction increases range of motion.
Bottom Line: The Marmot Venus Down Jacket—not quite as warm as the solar system's second planet, but close.
I got the XL in Wasabi to have a light weight, low bulk, cold weather layer for hiking. This is great on all counts. The shell material has resisted light misting rain without a cover layer. Compresses very small. Also the shell feels silky and the color is lovely; lots of compliments. I've been wearing it everywhere since I got it, comfortable over a silk under layer and sweater at temps to 10 degrees.
I wear a size 16 and am big in the hips, and it snugs onto the top of my hips. Would be nice if it were sized to fit *over* the hips of the women who are likely to wear size 16 (i.e. proportionally bigger in the buttulous region). Fits perfectly well everywhere else, room for layers.
This jacket is thin and very compressible, but remarkably warm. I wore it in 30 degree weather and stayed warm. Fits a little big, but it worked well for layering.
This jacket is probably warm, considering it is 800 fill down, but it's really thin and the fit is so weird. I'm about 5'5" and 128 lbs and I usually wear a size 2/4 so I ordered a small....It was short on the torso, but the sleeves were so HUGE I swear I could have fit 3 of my arms in one sleeve. So basically, if you have a really short torso and are planning to wear 20 layers underneath, order this jacket. As for me, it's going back and I'm ordering something else.
