5.11 #48099 Chameleon Softshell Jacket (Black, Medium)

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Price: $100.97 $100.95   

Product Feature

• 100% polyester bonded softshell, 230 grms
• Wind and water repellent
• 2 exterior pockets, 3 internal pockets
• Pullout panels at front chest and back
• Brushed lining

Product Description

With the huge success of our Sabre, 5.11 wanted to develop a new softshell lighter weight jacket for the public safety market, this new jacket is our Chameleon. Both wind and water repellent and featuring a light weight mesh liner and drop tail, this jacket is perfect for any undercover, off duty assignment or just for wearing any day or night of the week. With its three 5.11 pullout ID panels you can remain undercover or covert until the time comes when you really need to let people know who you are. With two large hand warmer pockets with pull tabs to cinch down the waist in each and three additional interior pockets for storage the 5.11 Chameleon is sure to appeal.

5.11 #48099 Chameleon Softshell Jacket (Black, Medium) Review

I'm a law enforcement officer who works primarily in plain clothes. I purchased this jacket to use on the job. My observations:

1) The jacket itself is attractive and warm. It's a near perfect windbreaker... if it wasn't for the flaws below, I'd give it a 5 of 5.

2) (Minor quibble): There's an elastic cinch cord that runs around the base of the jacket, so you can cinch the jacket in to be more snug around the waist. Unfortunately, the cord is extremely flimsy: mine caught a key chain in my pocket on the first or second wear, and the cord snapped. So now the jacket is too billowy around the base. It's still functional, but it looks bad.

3) (Major flaw): The main draw (to me) for this jacket is the 2 front/1 rear pull-out identifier panels. Blank panels are included. The problem is that 5.11 doesn't support this jacket by offering pre-embroidered panels or blank replacement panels. 5.11 does offer blank pull out panels for their other jackets, but those don't fit this product. An e-mail to the company confirmed this; they said they'd merely "look into" offering replacement panels in the future. This is a problem. You can have the blank panels embroidered, but if the embroidery machine eats your panels, or if you later change departments, you're out of luck. Guess you need to buy a new jacket if you want new panels. It's not an insurmountable issue (you can always make your own panels with some cloth and velcro), but it would be nice if 5.11 supported their own product a little better. I haven't been able to find commercially made panels anywhere.

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