Unfortunately, prAna is now one of those companies that used to make great products, but the quality has dropped so much that they're no longer anything special (and no longer worth the premium prices they charge).

prAna has sold these "Sherpa Crew" sweaters/t-shirts for a long time. I bought a blue one in 2007, and it looks as great now as it did when I bought it, and has remained a favorite for the last 5 years. In 2009, I bought another one, in black. It was the exact same name & style, yet completely different. The first one was a much lighter, softer, 'wiry' type of material, which looked very unique and never wrinkled. The black one was much more similar to a traditional sweatshirt; very much had a cottony feel to it--which isn't a bad thing, but it's not what I expected, but I kept it anyway because I liked it.

About a month ago, I saw this brown one on sale. I knew it wouldn't be as great as the one I bought 5 years ago, but assumed it would be at least as good as the one I bought 3 years ago. I was wrong. It's horrible. It sheds like crazy... When I first got it, I saw the fuzzballs literally dropping all over the place as I tried it on. After the first time I washed it, there were little brown fuzzballs all over the inside of the washer. After I dried it, I tried it on over the top of a white t-shirt, and when I took it off, the t-shirt was littered with brown fuzzballs. I washed the prAna Sherpa Crew again, and once again, it shed all over the washer, and when it came out of the dryer, it looked really bad - lots of pilling & fuzz.

It's a cheaply-made sweatshirt, with a prAna logo on the front. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't pay more than five dollars for it. I wish I had returned it after seeing how cheap it was when I took it out of the packaging, but I thought a washing & drying was all it needed. In reality, the only thing it needed was to be taken out back & shot.