I was looking for a slightly warmer jacket to wear in the rain rather than the thin one I currently have. I had my eye on this one and the price dropped to $55 so I bought it. I'm usually between a medium and large, but after reading reviews, people with my similar height and weight were ordering larges, so that's what I did. It's too big, I should have went with a medium. I often have jackets too big in the shoulder and tight on the hips, but this jacket seems too be a bit more roomy at the bottom. For the quality of the jacket, it seems very good. It seems like it would be water proof and the inside seems well insulated and warm. Maybe too warm for my purposes. At the ends of the sleeves, it has a weird inner lining that extends out the sleeve to provide you with a thumb cuff, I'm not crazy about this, it looks and feels weird. This would be a great jacket to wear in the snow. However, in the California central valley, I don't think I will get much use out of it, so rather than exchange for a medium, I'm returning it. It's too overkill to use as a rain jacket and I have plenty of thick carhartt jackets to use in the cold and don't need it for that.