sleeping bag sizing

CHOSING THE CORRECT SIZE SLEEPING BAG

The subject applies to purchasing mummy shaped sleeping bags only. Our rectangular bags are only made in one size.

There are to aspects of the size of the bag to consider; the length and the width in the torso.

It is important to understand that when you get into a sleeping bag your body is going to reduce the length of the bag. As an example, we make an 80-inch long bag which is a regular length size as we state it. 80 inches equates to 6 feet 6 inches, so a guy who stands 6 feet tall or 72 inches automatically assumes the regular length bag will fit him.

However, he does not take into consideration that his body is going to reduce the length of the bag as it surrounds him. Technically he is reducing the length of the bag, his body is drawing up the overall length of the material used to make the bag, therefore, the proper length bag he requires is the long size, which is 90 inches long, his body will reduce the length of the bag as well, but he will not be confined in it.

Now there is a matter of the width of the bag in the torso. Our regular width is 31 inches across or a 62-inch girth. Our 6-foot fellow has a 34-inch waist and about 200 pounds, so he automatically believes a bag with a 62-inch girth will fit fine until he gets into the bag and finds it is to narrow. Again, his body is drawing up the bag so he feels confined in the bag.

What our 6-foot tall, 200-pound man needs is the long wide body bag. the wide size is 34 inches across and 68 in girth, he will find that the bag will allow him to turn in it. He will find that he is not stretching the fiber therefore reducing the thickness which will cause the bag to have a higher temperature capability.

The reason all of the companies that sell “no sleep sleeping bags” have “no sleep sleeping bags” is because they make their bags to small for the people who buy them. And of course, the people who buy them find out quickly that they do not perform anywhere near the temperature ratings they publish. Why is that? The bags are cut to narrow to begin with. In order to save weight, the bag for our 6-foot and 200-pound example they make the bag as close to form fitting as possible. Once he gets into the bag, he basically will lay on his back with his arms crossed like a “mummy”. If the insulation used in the bag were capable of performing at the published temperature rating his body has stretched it so it has no chance of working period! I am very familiar with all of the insulating materials used for insulated products and I know that they will not work if these companies made their “no sleep sleeping bags” using my patterns.

If they did, they would increase the weights of the various “no sleep sleeping bags” that they do sell. That is something that will never happen.

Now if they were to make a “np sleep sleeping bag” using my pattern, our 6-foot 200-pound example still would find he did not sleep even though he is not stretching the insulation. The reason being the material they call insulation is not an effective material to be called insulation. Calling it “filler” is more appropriate.

The weights and sizes of these “no sleep sleeping bags” with the theoretical temperature ratings is much lighter than a temperature rated Wiggy’s bag of the same temperature rating and therefore more compactible.

Wiggy’s bags are made in sizes that reflect the size of people who live in the USA we are generally speaking larger than people in the rest of the world because we have a greater amount of food products available to us so we have naturally grown larger. I make my sleeping bags in sizes that fit people who live in the USA. The sleeping bags made by Wiggy’s are a little bit longer and a little bit wider so when you get in a Wiggy’s sleeping bag assuming you have read the sizing information and used it to order the correct size sleeping bag you will find it has creature comfort. You are not restricted to laying in the sleeping bag like a mummy.

The weight of Wiggy’s sleeping bags are in fact what they are. Some make the bogus comparison of the weight of a Wiggy’s sleeping bag of any temperature rating to the weight of a “no sleep sleeping bag”. How is it possible to compare a watermelon to a peanut? It just cannot be done. The “no sleep sleeping bag” weight is irrelevant because the “no sleep sleeping bag” does not perform as the hang tag states and it proves to be a “no sleep sleeping bag” constantly. Therefore, the size and weight are of no consequence.

FACE MASKS

Today I was reading headlines in the TECHNICALTEXTILE online magazine about I think 5 companies either increasing their production of melt blown polypropylene fiber for use in making masks. I read about a n Italian company converting their machine shop into making mask producing equipment, and firms that are in the process of increasing their production of masks up to 50 million per month. This is a German company. I thought when I read that they could produce one mask per person in all of Europe in 6 or 7 months. These are disposable masks of course.

What this tells me is that we are going to be wearing masks for a long time to come. Companies would not be investing millions of dollars in the whole process from building machines to increasing production of materials to finished product if the virus were to be ending.

All I can say is that the Wiggy’s masks will last as long as our sleeping bags.