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I agree. “Worse” considering the scenarios where your needs are not exactly the ones that guided project development.

A simple example would be gloves. What would be the pro version of a glove? The ones used in steel mills? If you want a glove for riding a bike, you’re better of with regular biker gloves. If it’s a glove for winter, maybe skier gloves and so on.

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Work/utility gloves are a good example where the commercial-grade options are awesome compared to what is at Home Depot.

For example, Ansell HyFlex gloves are standard issue in Amazon warehouses and they’re awesome for chores around the house too. They fit really well (and come in more sizes), they’re durable, and they are comfortable to wear for extended periods of time.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ansell-Glove-HyFlex-11-542-Light...

Interesting, had no idea that work gloves not designed for use by NASA could cost almost $300/pair. What kind of work are these used for? Safecracking?

That’s for 12 pairs.

I see what you mean now -- they certainly don't make that obvious.

Milwaukee sells heated work gloves for $150 a pair and they’re real nice at -40.

In the 90's wearing road construction worker gloves while skateboarding was the cool thing in Sweden, works pretty well. And now I use insulated carpenter gloves while bicycling in the mild Danish winters.

Winter "pro" gloves are not ski gloves, even if they are used for skiing. In the French Alps, wearing gloves [1] that identify you as not a tourist is quite common.

[1] https://www.deltaplus.eu/en/article-details/-/article-detail...

The main reason to wear these is abrasion resistance for working with ropes and tools. They are not needed for everyday skiing and a goretex glove is going to be a better and easier choice. Unless you really need that snowgun maintenance crew chic.

In the US, a pair of 20 dollar kinco full leather gloves + snoseal will immediately give you "local" cred and save you from overpriced name brand junk that doesnt hold up.

The ones in my link are even cheaper than that, as worn by every refuse collector and ski lift operator in Chamonix.

Those aren't waterproof - surely that matters?

When it is below freezing, the snow isn’t very wet. You could do fine with some thick woolly gloves or mittens in those conditions too.

Your hands do sweat so they need to breathe a bit. Wind proof is more useful for skiing than waterproof.

you put sno-seal on them

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