Simms' stuff is pricey, no doubt, and much of it is overpriced. I can get better fishing shirts for half of their prices, in many cases, and other sportswear items are similarly overpriced. But for waders and wading boots they're best in class, and worth the money, if you stay with the G3, rather than go with the more expensive G4 or G4Z models. Their jackets are debatable. I bought a Guide jacket several years ago that was on sale at $299 ($100 off), and thought that was outrageous. Turns out it's a great jacket, and the price on very similar models has not gone up at all, even gone down some. Those models are great value now. But the higher models they've been replaced by are arguably unnecessarily overdone and overpriced, well past the point of diminishing returns. If I had the scratch to buy any one of those I wanted would I still do it? I doubt it, knowing what I know now. To me, the incremental improvements haven't kept pace with the incremental price increases. Plus, the ugly quotient has gone up in some of their recent, pricier stuff.
