Beyond Blogger: Liana Herron

A couple of Fridays ago Scott met me for dinner and brought with him my very own Beyond L2 (grid) pullover. Now while I knew this was in the works as we had taken measurements and talked about what clothing I wanted I didn’t expect to see the first result so quickly nor did I know what to expect. To back up a minute; when you meet a guy on the chairlift and he starts talking about a custom clothing company he owns you think to yourself “that sounds pretty cool”. That said it’s still kind of hard (at least for me) to imagine exactly what it would mean if I got a custom made something or other. Scott’s extremely passionate about what he does so I figured the clothes had to be pretty good and I have worn a few items of his which were not custom made for me. Read: I continually steal his fleece hoodies under the premise I forgot to bring a sweater with me. In fact there’s one in my hall closet now but still I’ve never owned a piece of custom gear before and have been fine.

So to continue, I pull the shirt over my head and………….SOLD!!!! You know those kids who decide they are going to stay in their jammies for weeks on end? Yeah that’s me in my L2. It’s been in the 70’s and 80’s here in Seattle and I’m looking for any excuse I can to wear my shirt. Out of the last 14 days I think that shirt has seen wear at least 11. Don’t believe me? Just ask my co-workers.

You might be thinking to yourself what could be that great about a shirt. Well let me tell you; first and foremost it fits. Not it fits okay, not this will do, but it actually fits and frankly it makes me look pretty dang good. At least I think so and that’s really all that matters. Just because you are in the woods or on the slopes doesn’t mean you don’t want to look at your best. Take it from me; chairlifts are a great place to meet people.

Now to the serious bits; for the women out there who have been graced with curves you will understand the difficulties of getting a top to fit. An ample chest means those shirts designed around a more boyish female figure all of a sudden are two inches shorter in the front, there is extra fabric billowing in the hollow of your back, and nothing manages to find its way over your hip bones but instead bunches up around your waist.

With this shirt the front comes down past my waistband, it skims my hips instead of bunching up, I don’t look like a box, and there aren’t bunches of fabric floating around my lower back. I wish someone would have told me about custom earlier.

For the guys with long arms, long torsos, and small waists with big shoulders you too can have something with fabric where it should be, like at your wrists, and not where it shouldn’t be, for example bunching up around your stomach.

It’s also important to not forget that at $64.00US it is less expensive than many of the comparable alternatives out there. And yes that is custom and you even get a neck zipper.