CAMPCOHumvee Photography Utility Vest for Men & Women - Perfect for Safari, Hunting, Fishing, Camping, & Travel - 100% Cotton Gift

Medium weight cotton vest, pockets lined with polyester, which is nice, and its well made. Used for a photo vest, to use in hot weather or cold with a wool sweater under it and a light nylon poncho over it all in winter. Use outdoors in the wild not at the zoo. Its cotton, not waterproof, it will sweat up, but anything will. Vented back, lots of pockets, washed it, came out rumpled but fine. I prefer rumpled. Its not a concealed carry vest, which is good, since those look like you are carrying which in my opinion is stupid unless you are law enforcement or in a dangerous job, then it looks right. Everyone feels threatened from birth, by nearly anything, carry a gun wear a common CWP vest, you might as well have a bill board and make someone else who is carrying feel threatened. Some CWP vests are nice in build quality, for an urban hiking vest light. This more bulky vest has enough pockets for small cameras, snack, little bit of water, knife, phone, DSLR is around the neck on a neoprene strap, light extra lens, pad for GPS and navigation, but bear in mind, more weight on the shoulders of a vest, you might like a backpack better, you can sit that on the ground. Camera vests have a weight limit, in reality. Its not a suitcase but in an airport lightly loaded, its dropped in the security tray with all the metal gear and a bag. Your pants pockets are empty. Back vest pocket good for folded water proof light weight poncho. Got a hat with some brim out of Mexican Palm straw water proofed a bit, you can put zip locks in a few pockets left open. You can get by ok in the rain with time to get out a mylar space blanket. Rain can last a while but often it can be better to sit than risk slipping down something with water running under your feet. Most of the time in the swampy wild, I tend to prefer my eyes as best protection. Learn to use those, they are a number one double barreled gun. Alone, you do not have a gun behind you in someone else's hand. Any pistol is going to be in a shoulder bag, with a belly strap, not in a vest. I think this is a good wilderness vest if packed right, with the minimum gear, a light nylon pancho, space blanket and cord, whistle, fire gear and whatever cell is covered in the area and a spare battery.Alone, communication is key and even a locator device is ok if its extreme. Even a six hour hike alone can be sketchy. Vest can have enough light primary gear plus cellular to get it done. Again, its not waterproof and hike in the rain in tropical areas, it will soak the sweat, waterproof the camera pockets and electrical gear and put that very light poncho in the back. If the vest stinks and you got some experience with your eyes, and have to rinse it out, and let it dry on your back the next day, you wore it right. I wear an extra large in this vest if its over a T shirt, with the side snaps loose, but over a sweater in winter, and long sleeve shirt, a XX in this vest is ok because I bulk up, one size up, and the vest runs large. If its just for looks buy the size you are, its large enough. If you got a pot belly, go big bubba. You can put an extra snap on the side or some Velcro and cinch up as well.

Great vest..nice large pockets (including 3 inside pockets), plus great ventilation system (mesh rear is covered by the cloth but has pleats allowing the air to come in easily. Nice sturdy zipper. Wore this for the first time last weekend and was able to get lenses and extra batteries and a flash unit all packed in nicely, along with a wallet for my personal needs plus has room to hang sunglasses on rings for quick removal and then access. Has pen holders, if you carry pen and paper. True to size..I wanted one large enough to go over my jacket if necessary and it fit just fine, large armholes. Some of the velcro closures are a bit hard to tug open at first, so you need to loosen those up BEFORE you start wearing the vest. Material is lightweight but seems sturdy enough.

This vest is superb, except for one thing. The designers of said vest must be huge. As in HUGE. My manly sweetie is no small fry - ordinarily wears a 2XL and looks fine - so on Christmas morning he opens his vest and is happy: Pockets out the wazoo, lotsa vents and guy stuff, 2XL - Yippee! Life is good. Until he tries it on: There is about twice as much vest as Manly Sweetie, alas. Enough vest that a tribe of pygmies could come over and take shelter with him. That much vest.It's going back.MS is of the opinion that an XL will keep pygmies from moving in, I'm not so sure.Will get back to you on that. Meanwhile, let me just say this: I've known a number of photographers in my life and not a one of them has been built on the scale of this vest. Buy accordingly.

Update: after 6 months of daily ware I have several small tears that I have repaired, but it won’t be long before I will have to replace it. I’m kind of disappointed that it’s not holding up. Like I hoped. And unfortunately the price has gone up by 33%.I’m 6’2” and 250lbs. The 2xl fits great with room for a sweatshirt or light jacket underneath. If I’m wearing a T-shirt it has snap gathers to adjust the fit light weight with mesh panels on the back, it will be perfect for the hot weather here in Phoenix. There are more pockets then I know what to do with. I bought this vest to hide my shoulder holster and it does that perfectly. When I go hiking with my dogs there is plenty of pockets to carry all the gear I want to take with us.

I picked this up for wearing on plane trips. I used to wear a Bananna Republic one years ago and loved it, but age and extra weight necessitated something larger. The quality of this vest is quite good. I liked that it is almost a copy of my Bananna Republic one. Many of the ones out there are more for looks than real use. The configuration is such that it is great for keeping everything you would want on a plane trip easily at hand without needing to fill the seat pocket or access your luggage. I used my old one alot for photography and am sure this will work well for that as well as the configurations are the same.

Got this yesterday. It fit's well over other clothing and still has some room. It's comfortable and I can put my 'stuff' in it. It will be a useful item to wear out in the bush or in the city.It arrive promptly and is in good condition. I plan on wearing this constantly.Would I recommend this to others? No doubt about it.

Bought this for my husband when we went to Africa and he loved it. Very functional and nice looking best. Quality material and fit was true to size

A XX Large is about a Medium by any other standard and it shrinks even more after washing. Cloth is paper thin.