When it comes to hiking jackets, especially mid layers, one fabric rules supreme: fleece. First developed in the late 1970s, this synthetic fabric was lighter and softer than wool. It's also much ...

There’s enough lore about the early days of Patagonia to rival a Tolkien novel, but one of my personal favorite tales concerns the origin of the fleece jacket. According to Patagonia’s marketing team, ...

I can still remember my shock when my ex-girlfriend’s mother—the matriarch of a New England family that lived in L.L. Bean fleece—told me that it wasn’t actually wool. And if something called “fleece” ...

Ubiquitous as it might appear today, the fleece jacket was only invented 45 years ago. Malden Mills (now Polartec) developed modern synthetic fleece in 1979 and collaborated with Patagonia founder ...