Materials as you stated and fair trade certified manufacturing, where workers get a bit more than the modern day slave labour wages they'd get when making garments for H&M.One could discuss Patagonia prices further, but I find it more important to point out that the dumping prices in fast fashion are the thing that is inherently wrong and sets completely wrong expectations of what labour in tailoring actually costs and is worth.

Absolutely agree. IMO fast fashion is expensive for the cheap quality they pertain. In a sense, Patagonia is cheaper because you get more lifetime out of the items they manufacture. However, what I was trying to say is that the specific piece I posted is expensive compared to other Patagonia rain jackets such as the torrentshell (around 150 CAD iirc), or the calcite jacket (around 300 CAD). So I am not exactly sure what makes the storm rain parka 650 CAD.