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Honestly, learn what goes into a good piece of out gear and you can salvage great stuff from normie clothes
Example:
>want an ultralight windshirt
>can't afford $70 montbell anorak or equivalent
>find Walmart "lightweight" down jacket aimed at suburbanites
>strip the low quality down, cut out extra zippers, cut out inner lining
>BooM! Great fitting windshirt, as light as best ones out there, $5, looks good too
Be creative! Only snobs want "special made" gear when they could repurpose regular stuff into quality, custom /out/ gear that looks good too (see: the meme market of ultralight gear). Plus, the lightest gear is always the stuff you custom make, since companies will simply not sell things without extra reinforcement you don't need, to avoid having to spend money on warranties for careless buyers
