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SeV’s Transformer goes from vest to jacket…magnetically

• 13 February //
 
• Posted in Uncategorized

You’ve likely seen or heard about pants that unzip on each leg to become shorts.

ScottEVest has come up with something similar for the upper body — a jacket that transforms into a vest when you remove the sleeves.

There’s a twist: The jacket’s pieces are held together with magnets. This means you can detach the sleeves easily, without having to take off the garment.

Getting the sleeves back on is straightforward, too, since ScottEVest wisely made them a single component, joined via a fabric piece in the rear, just below the user’s neck. The sleeve-reattachment maneuver takes a bit of practice but works nicely, and the magnets engage with satisfying clicks.

I’ll wager Scott Jordan, the founder of ScottEVest, got some of his inspiration from Apple’s magnetically attached Smart Cover for the iPad 2. In fact, he does a Steve Jobs imitation (don’t quit your day job, dude) in a video promoting the Transformer.

He notes in the video that previous SeV jackets had detachable sleeves, but used zippers instead of magnets and were therefore more of a hassle to convert.

The Transformer, like other ScottEVest garments, is replete with inner pockets for gadgets of all sizes (even an iPad) along with sunglasses, passport, cash, water bottle and other essentials (along with your sleeves if they’re detached).

The fit is first-rate, too.

In an earlier post, I lamented how some of ScottEVest’s products had proven problematic in fit and finish, at least for me, but how it redeemed itself with its recently released Puffer jacket.

The Transformer is another winner. SeV is on a roll.

Just one quibble: It would have been great to have at least one breast pocket on the outside of the Transformer to stash an iPhone. The jacket has left and right hand-warmer pockets, but that’s where I put my keys and wallet.

There are breast-height pockets on the inside of the Transformer, but that required me to unzip the jacket to remove or manipulate my mobile device. SeV’s signature multipocket vest, the one from which the company derives its name, has two outer breast pockets.