How to buy a cost-effective and warm down jacket for children?

Recently, colds, coughs, and pneumonia have been constant, and the hospital is full of patients.

Therefore, if there is a baby at home, the down jacket with fleece and thickening should be put on for him in time, after all, the small body cannot withstand freezing.

But the price and style of down jackets on the market are dazzling.

No, even the down jacket assassins are here this year.

Adult down jackets are often 3 or 4 thousand, and even children's down jackets are generally hundreds of dollars larger......

It's no wonder that mothers have complained about the price.

So how to choose a down jacket for your child, how can you buy a cost-effective and warm down jacket?

Here is a practical dry article for you.

A key word, read the new national standard for down jackets

At the beginning of last year, Mainland released the GB/T14272-2021 "Down Clothing" standard, which was officially implemented on April 1, 2022.

Among them, the most worthy of mother's attention is to modify the "down content" to "down content".

Here is the difference between velvet and velvet.

Cashmere: Down, a general term for immature down, similar to down, and damaged down, which is dandelion-shaped and fluffy, and is the most high-quality part of a down.

Velvet: The monofilament that falls off the down, in the form of a filament, without fluffiness.

It can be seen that the change from "down content" to "down content" is undoubtedly a higher requirement in warmth and fluffiness.

Many careful mothers will find that some inferior down jackets are filled with a lot of down waste in the down jacket.

Therefore, many down jackets with a label of "90% down content" still do not feel warm for children to wear.

The revision of the "down garment" standard can more intuitively judge the quality of down jackets, and merchants cannot include the down waste that has no warmth effect into the down content.

So if you want to buy a warm down jacket, you only need to pay attention to the down content.

A standard can intuitively judge the quality of the down jacket, whether it is much more worry-free.

Four criteria for judging down jackets

There are three factors that affect how warm a down jacket is: down content, filling amount and fill power.

Velvet content:

If you want to buy a warm down jacket, it is recommended that you choose a down content of 90% or more.

If the down content is less than 50%, it can basically be judged as an assassin down jacket, so it is not recommended for mothers to buy it.

Filling capacity:

The total weight of all the down filled in a down jacket, generally speaking, the more down the more warm.

Here is also a gram reference for mothers:

Take a 1.6-meter-tall, ordinary short down jacket as an example:

Generally, it is less than 120g, which is a light down, which is more suitable for early winter.

130 to 180g belongs to the content of a standard down jacket, which can basically cope with the weather around zero degrees.

More than 180g is a very warm down jacket, which belongs to cold weather, or is worn outdoors in Northeast cities, focusing on a cold protection.

The reason why many 100-yuan down jackets are cheap is that the filling amount is not up to standard.

The filling amount is only 16g, which is really unguardable.

Pengsongdu:

In fact, in layman's terms, the fluffier the down, the better the warmth.

Generally, down jackets are divided into four levels of pouffiness.

400FP-450FP Medium

500FP-550FP is good

550FP-750FP OK

750FP-900FP excellent

Warm down jackets should have a fill power of at least 650+ FP, and if it is cold weather in the Northeast, it may need 800+ FP.

But the higher the more swollen, this is not, the children's school uniform set down jacket swollen into "bread"

For the sake of warmth and safety, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places have recently made it clear: do not force students to wear school uniforms.

So mothers, don't blindly pursue high fluff.

Cleanliness:

Sometimes mothers think that the down jacket has a smell when they buy it, but in fact, the down cleaning of the down jacket is not done well.

Cleanliness, also known as turbidity, is the turbidity of the filtrate after washing down.

The clearer the wash, the higher the cleanliness and the cleaner and hygienic the down.

Therefore, when choosing a down jacket every day, the cleanliness is still as high as possible.

The national standard requires the cleanliness of down jackets to be more than 450+, 800 is high-quality down, and 1000+ is the industry's top standard.

Misunderstandings in the purchase of down jackets

1. The warmth performance of goose down is better than that of duck down?

Although merchants have been advocating goose down in recent years, this kind of talk is too absolute.

Whether it is goose down or duck down, you need to look at the maturity of the down, generally speaking, the higher the maturity of the bird, so the better the quality of the down produced.

Therefore, the warmth of goose down is better than that of duck down, and it can only be when the down maturity is the same.

So mothers, don't just stare at goose down to buy, some high-quality duck down jackets can actually be considered, and the cost performance is higher.

2. Is white velvet better than gray velvet?

White Velvet: Velvet produced by white waterfowl

Gray down: Velvet produced by variegated waterfowl

Duck down is further divided into gray duck down and white duck down, and in general, gray duck down is cheaper.

Because the taste of gray duck down will be heavier than that of white duck down, but before filling, the down needs to go through strict process treatment and washing and disinfection procedures, so there is basically no smell.

Therefore, unless it is a light-colored down jacket and you are worried about color translucency, it will be more cost-effective to choose gray duck down.

How to care for a down jacket

1. Reduce washing 

It is generally recommended to wash down jackets only once a year.

If the down jacket is partially dirty when the child is eating or playing, you can choose to use a neutral laundry detergent or a hot towel to wipe it off in time.

2. Avoid sun exposure 

In order to avoid the aging of the fabric and down, after washing the down jacket, you only need to take it to a ventilated place to dry, and do not choose to expose it to the sun because it dries quickly.

3. Reduce folding 

Many mothers will squeeze down into a ball when storing it to increase wardrobe space.

However, this will squeeze the fluff inside, which will reduce the fill power, so it is best to hang the down jacket for storage.

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After reading this article, have you learned how to pick a down jacket?

In fact, in winter, there is a large temperature difference between morning and evening, in addition to choosing a good down jacket, mothers choose practical small clothes, such as thin hats, vests, long socks, etc.

In addition to being able to keep children warm and windproof anytime and anywhere, it is also more convenient to put on and take off, which is very practical.

After all, the biggest wish of mothers this year is that their children can be healthy and safe without catching a cold.