Patagonia’s Web Specials section, which updates semi-regularly ... Forge Grey and Burnished Red are over 50 percent off. I love my Better Sweater quarter zip—in fact, I’m wearing it as I type this up.

His case-closed evidence? “I don’t wear a quarter-zip gym top to work.” Like Patagonia vests, stretch chinos and Colgate-white sneakers, the quarter- (or half-) zip top has cemented its ...