Royal Blue Ultra Light Sleeping Bag Sale!

Last year, due to a drop in sales of royal blue ultra-light sleeping bags, I chose to end my purchases of royal blue material. I sold out—or I thought I sold out—of all of the bags that were made with the royal blue nylon.

Well, I thought that was the case. This morning my production manager gave me an inventory of royal blue shells for sleeping bags, so I am going to list here and on the website the inventory according to size and zipper side at a bargain price. There are a total of 273 right side zippered bags and 21 left side zippered bags.

Right Side Zippered Mummy Bags (Standard Foot)

• Regular Size: 90
• Wide Body: 27
• Regular Width/Long: 52
• Double Long/Double Wide Body: 1
• Extra-Long/Double Wide: 1
• Short Bag: 2
• Youth Bag: 7

Right Side Zippered Boat Foot Bags

• Regular Size: 22
• Wide Body: 19
• Long/Wide Body: 7

Left Side Zippered Boat Foot Bags

• Regular Size: 2
• Wide Body: 12
• Long/Wide Body: 7

The cost for these bags is $140.00 each, which includes a compression stuff sack, pillow, and FREE shipping to the 48 contiguous United States (excludes Hawaii & Alaska).

The cost for the Youth Bag is $75.00 each . 

The cost for the custom double wide bags is $150.00 each.

Additional Bags...

• Desert Bag: 38 » Cost is $100.00 with pillow, compression stuff sack & FREE shipping*
• Hunter Sleeping Bag with Hood: 5 » Cost is $150.00 with pillow, compression stuff sack & shipping*
• Hunter Sleeping Bag (No Hood): 1 » Cost is $150.00 with pillow, compression stuff sack & shipping*

These bags will be sold on a first come basis. They will have the same guarantee that exists for all Wiggy’s bags. They are available on the website for ordering or you are welcome to call us directly at (866) 411-6465. All bags will be completed at the time of order.

*FREE Ground Shipping to the 48 contiguous states. Excludes Hawaii, Alaska & US Territories.

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DWR (Durable Water Repellent Finish) Vs. Pure Finish

DWR chemicals have been applied to outerwear fabrics prior to WW2 I believe. When I started working in the textile business I sold materials to rainwear manufacturers, there were many small factories in Manhattan, and became aware of DWR, these companies were using cotton poplin or cotton polyester blend fabrics. When I started selling insulations to skiwear, snowmobile suit manufacturers and general outerwear manufacturers I became aware of all of them using nylon fabric that had a DWR finish on the fabrics. In ALL cases the DWR finish never lasted very long. It would disappear after a few days of rain or wash out.

When gore came on the seen with their bogus waterproof breathable garbage they eventually laminated their film to a nylon fabric that was not treated with a DWR until after the film had been laminated to the nylon. After a few years gore started selling a water repellent treatment to replace what had disappeared. Gore was now experiencing what ALL of the rainwear and outerwear manufacturers had been experiencing for years. So much for waterproof breathable!! The DWR was washing away and it was washed away by the rain not with detergent in a washing machine. It is obvious that “durable” is not what is claimed about the chemical, so why have it on the fabric?

For the past few years chemical companies have been working very hard to come up with a DWR that does not have fluorocarbons in it. Why because even though the amount of chemical per garment is pretty insignificant when you have several millions losing their DWR chemical it is a lot of chemical and that means when it all starts gathering it is significant enough to do some pollution damage. So, as we can see DWR is a problem.

A number of years ago I started buying pure finish fabrics. That means they have not gone through any process that adulterates them with chemicals, such as having a DWR applied. The amount of material that I have purchased over the years has been in the hundreds of thousands of yards. I have no need to ever buy material with a DWR since the chemical disappears very quickly anyway and I save at least $0.10 per yard by eliminating it from the process. It should have been done away with years ago since synthetics shed water for the most part anyway. As for my insulated products the Lamilite keeps the moisture out as well. This means drying time is much less. Of course Lamilite is not affected by water anyway.

How about chemically sensitive people, well Wiggy’s has a very good reputation with chemically sensitive people because they do not react to any of the Lamilite insulated products they buy from Wiggy’s.