OROROWomen's Heated Fleece Vest with Battery, Lightweight Heating Vest Fleece (Charger Not Included)

I wear this vest all day in the winter months I have a very active outdoor job and I cannot work with a heavy jacket on as it restricts my movement to much. This vest is an absolute necessary part of my work attire in the winter months. I constantly am working in a wet and damp outdoor environment. I like this vest better for casual wear then I do for work. I do really love this vest when snowmobiling or riding horses and doing normal barn chores. It's lightweight and I can layer it over a hoodie and under a jacket.What I love about this vest- It fits nicely and is not puffy- It hold up to washing incredibly well- I have bleached it (VERY CAREFULLY) and it handled it well.- It heats well the battery lasts as long as I need it to although I am careful to turn it off when I do not need it.- The pockets are so warm.What I don't like- I wish it was just a little longer-The original version of the battery pack is a bit heavy but I only notice it when I am in a sitting position.- It is not waterproof - but I have never had water soak through the vest. The outer layer of the vest definitely gets wet.I would definitely still buy this vest again although for a more casual setting or for snowmobiling. I am definitely considering the Down version the next time around!

I have been hearing about heated vests and jackets for a while but living in Virginia didn't think it was really a necessity. I decided to give one a try and after researching decided to go with the Ororo brand. I chose the fleece vest because it would be small enough to go under a bigger coat if needed but also light enough to use throughout the changing seasons instead of being strictly a winter gear item. You do need to fully charge the better prior to first use so plug that baby in as soon as you receive your package. Also, if you are getting this for someone who immediately rips off all the tags, don't let them. Once the tag on the zipper comes off, the company may not honor a return request. Thankfully, we didn't need to return ours!Once the battery was charged, the battery was plugged in and the logo was illuminated to let you know it's on and then you press that same logo to change the heat level. I liked that the heating elements also warm your hands when they are in the vest pockets! Some users complained about the battery placement but I didn't have issues with it rubbing on my hip. I'd recommend checking that fit before removing tags to make sure you'll be comfortable using the product as intended.It's been in the 20's in the evenings and mornings lately, and I've used it on walks and haven't needed my huge overcoat but rather a regular jacket and I felt comfortable for the 30 minute walks.

I have now purchased 5 of the Ororo heated products. After buying the Ororo heated golf vest with the removable sleeves, i purchased this fleece for her in addition to her black heated vest. I bought the fleece also for my daughter who is a teacher and wears it whenever the kids are outside and it keeps her nice and warm. They are durable, comfortable, functional and i can't say enough about the golf vest with the magnetic pockets. I golf 3-4 times a week and always have it on and it does not hamper my movement. We have been pleased with all the Ororo products.

I have a rare disease of the nerve roots in my thorax, which get really painful whenever my back gets cold. So I ordered this vest so that my back would not get cold in my own apartment, or anywhere else. As it turns out, although my understanding of the vest was that it had heating zones in both front and back, when I put the heat up on its highest level, the only places I feel heat is in the pockets and in the tummy area. I have no idea why this is, but I am keeping the vest anyway since it fits well-- and so far the heat in the pockets and tummy area are the best I have found in any battery operated heated piece of clothing. This one actually works, and the three levels of heat are super-- white for low heat, blue for medium heat, red for the highest heat.Actually other than the lack of any heat emanating from the back area, the main problem I find with this vest is the fact that I am forced to take the vest completely off (unzip the zipper, and then take the vest off my body) in order to remove the first battery when it is all used up, and put in a new one. That is because the inner pocket, where the battery is located (where the wire emerges after traveling all the way down from the shoulder high power button) is not on the outside of the vest, where --like the power button-- it could more easily be accessed, but instead the battery pocket is on the INNER side of the vest. In other words, you have to unzip the vest before you can get your fingers anywhere near the battery pocket, and I have found that even THAT doesn't go far enough, since the battery pocket is nowhere near the zipper opening (which of course is at the very center of the front of the jacket), but instead is really far away from the zipper opening-- the battery pocket is not only hidden away INSIDE the jacket where you can't touch it without unzipping, but it is placed far to the left of the zipper opening, basically on your hip, when the jacket zipper is closed. That is why you need to take the jacket entirely off to be able to reach the battery and get it into or out of the designated battery pocket. Also the used up battery has to be carefully extracted and the new battery carefully connected, given how tiny the wire is and how tiny the little hole in the side of the battery is where the wire has to be inserted, so for all of those reasons I could not take the drained battery out nor put a new, charged battery into the vest battery pocket without taking the vest entirely off my body. In my case, I wear a very thin fabric shirt under the vest so that I get the full benefit of the heat, and then over the vest I wear several layers (a thicker long sleeved winter shirt, a warm pullover, plus a down jacket when it's very cold). Therefore for me, the heated vest is only useful outdoors for the length of time that one battery lasts, which is sad. If it weren't for that fact that the battery pocket is so inaccessible, I would be able to take several batteries with me when I go outdoors and would know that they could be replaced one after the other, as each successive one expired, so that I could stay warm all day with my heated vest on. But unfortunately wearing several layers over the heated vest makes battery changes outdoors impractical (I sure would get cold out there if I took off all my outer layers, including the vest !!), so that is disappointing. The final point is that the power button for the heat is on the outside of the vest, up near the neckline. That works fine if you are wearing the vest as your outer layer, but if like me you wear other layers on top of the vest, it's a pain. Too bad, in my case I have to pull down the neckline on each of my outer layers to be able to push the power button on the vest. That location for the power button ordinarily SHOULD be pretty convenient for most people, and would be for anyone for whom the vest is an outer layer. Never mind, I am truly happy that I bought this vest because battery powered "heated" clothing that I have acquired in the past has been pretty hit or miss, and this one actually HEATS.