Craft Brilliance high-vis range launched

Those gloves look like marigolds - absolutely horrible.

And they launch these in November? I recently bought a new Altura Night Vision Evo (which is black and reflective, too). Craft gear is usually pretty good. I don't wish I'd waited, but this would have been another option.

I guess these are better than jackets with some tiny piping or a reflective logo, but many reflective elements on jackets fall above the area lit by dipped headlights anyway. Anything that is just on the top of the shoulders in particular. The style police will rage, but reflectives on shoes/overshoes, or the simple snap ankle band bouncing up and down right in the headlight beam do a much better job IMHO....

It's good to see reflective material incorporated into cycling specific garments, but come on people, use some common sense. We really need to see the back of the garment, so we can guage how visible we might be from different angles.

This is a really important issue because, as my avotar shows, rear lights don't work so well when viewed from the side, and so a rider could be utterly dependent on a garment's all round reflectivity.

Hint - how about a night time review, so we can see how some of these reflective garments stack up against each other.

I don't know why there aren't more t-shirts and hoodies with reflective designs. Something interesting rather than the meaningless bands and flashes you usually get.

The only one I've seen is, of all things, a Satanic pentagram design, which isn't really my thing.

Are Craft in anyway linked to the Crane that do Aldi's gear?

They seem to use similar designs and font, or is it just a case of Aldi 'jacking their swagger' to put it in the youth vernacular.

Kind of cool to see a black "hi-vis" jacket. The argument that reflective panels are more important than a true hi-vis color sounds pretty solid and much more likely to be adopted by cyclists

The jacket and gloves look pretty decent. I've always wondered why there isn't more reflective material on the arms of cycling jackets though. It would seem useful for low-light signalling. I suppose it tends to crack or something.