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Future Suit Jacket

Name: Future Suit Jacket
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: JKT082BLKXSM
Price: 495 GBP
Availability: InStock

A futureproof, weatherproof suit jacket. Designed for dream hijacking or boardrooms.

£495

Colour: black edition

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Model is 5ft 11 / 180cm with a 38 inch / 97cm chest, and wears size Medium.

Made with a new type of high tech Merino
It’s completely smooth and soft on your skin
Breathable, windproof and water resistant

If Tenet and Inception are anything to go by, then we’re still going to be wearing suits in the future – they might just need to be able to cope with time travel and dream hijacking, as well as going to the office and out to dinner.

So our Future Suit Jacket and Future Suit Pants are an ultramodern, completely weatherproof take on what we used to call a suit. Both the streamlined jacket and pants are made from Merino that we’ve transformed into a smooth, minimalist, high tech material.

The Future Suit Jacket retains all the high performance properties of Merino – it’s water resistant, breathable, kills bacteria, and regulates your temperature. And we’ve combined that with the minimalist technical detailing of a blouson jacket.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

70% Optim™ Merino wool, 20% polyester, 10% polyamide

Tightly woven weather resistant fabric

Highly windproof and water resistant

Naturally breathable, antibacterial and UV resistant

Mesh lining: 82% polyamide, 18% elastane

Sleeve lining: 40% polyamide, 60% cotton

Two-way water resistant zipper

2 side pockets with hidden water resistant zippers

Elasticated drawcord at waist with rubber stopper

Fabric bound internal seams

Garment weighs 450 grams

Machine wash 30°C

Constructed in China

70% Optim™ Merino wool, 20% polyester, 10% polyamide

Tightly woven weather resistant fabric

Highly windproof and water resistant

Naturally breathable, antibacterial and UV resistant

Mesh lining: 82% polyamide, 18% elastane

Sleeve lining: 40% polyamide, 60% cotton

Two-way water resistant zipper

2 side pockets with hidden water resistant zippers

Elasticated drawcord at waist with rubber stopper

Fabric bound internal seams

Garment weighs 450 grams

Machine wash 30°C

Constructed in China

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A suit built for time travelling, or going out to dinner

If Tenet and Inception are anything to go by, then we’re still going to be wearing suits in the future – they might just need to be able to cope with time travel and dream hijacking, as well as going to the office and out to dinner. So our Future Suit is an ultramodern, completely weatherproof take on what we used to call a suit.

The Future Suit transforms Merino into a smooth, minimalist, high tech material.

Built from high performance Merino. But not as you know it

While our Future Suit is built from ultrafine Merino, you’d never know it. Merino has its roots in classic suits, but we’ve completely transformed how the wool feels and what it looks like. This is Merino transformed into a smooth, minimalist, high tech material.

Designed to take you from the boardroom to the mountain

To build the Future Suit we’ve retained and enhanced all the high performance properties of Merino – it’s still water resistant, highly windproof and breathable, while killing bacteria and regulating your temperature – but we’ve made it completely smooth and soft against your skin. And we’ve cut it into a design that will take you from a plane to a boardroom to a lunch, to a mountain.

How we make the suit windproof and water resistant

The Future Suit is built with Merino wool engineered using Optim™ spinning technology. The fibres are pre-stretched, spun into yarn and woven into fabric, before a wet-finishing process is applied that makes the fibres contract and the weave structure tighten. The result is a super-dense and tightly woven fabric that’s 5x more wind resistant than normal, and can last half an hour in the rain before it even gets damp.

The jacket is 5x more wind resistant than normal Merino and lasts half an hour in the rain before it even gets damp.

The engineering process makes the Merino ultrasoft

The quality of Merino is judged on its ‘micron count.’ This refers to the diameter of an individual fibre measured in microns, or thousandths of a millimetre. The smaller the diameter, the finer the fibre. The finer the fibre, the softer the fabric. The micron count of Merino wool can be as low as 15 – which is the same as cashmere. The spinning process takes the micron count of our Merino even lower, which is why it feels so smooth and silk-like.

Based on the original blouson jackets

Our Future Suit Jacket borrows from the design of the original blouson jacket – a short jacket with a fitted waist that you’ll find in military uniforms from the mid 20th century right up to the modern day. We’ve streamlined the design to make it feel smarter, while keeping the functional details. It gives the jacket a slightly more formal feel making it a good alternative to a suit blazer.

The Future Suit that is designed to take you from a plane to a boardroom, to a lunch, to a mountain.

Built with weatherproof detailing

You’ll find two bellows pockets at the hip that come with hidden, water resistant zippers. The jacket is lined with a lightweight breathable mesh to keep you comfortable in the heat. And the sleeves are fitted with elasticated cuffs to keep the weather out.

The jacket comes with a fully adjustable waist

One of the key features of a blouson jacket is its close-fitting waist. It’s normally achieved with a ribbed or elasticated hem, but we’ve added an internal drawcord so the hem is fully adjustable. The rubber cord lock at the hip is the same one used in our Graphene Jacket – you just place two fingers on either side, pinch, and pull it towards you to cinch the waist.

The Future Suit is an ultramodern, high performance travel suit.

Built for travelling light

Both the jacket and pants are super easy to fold and pack down into a bag for travel. At the other end of the journey you can simply pull them out the bag, shake them out and throw the suit on, making it perfect for the times when you need to travel light. The jacket is incredibly smooth and soft against your skin, so won’t scratch you or itch like wool can. And Merino is also naturally elastic so it’s not going to create any resistance.

The jacket is antibacterial

It’s not sweat that smells, or even the clothes themselves, it’s the build-up of bacteria on the surface of the clothes. Merino is naturally odour resistant – odour molecules are absorbed and locked into the centre of the fibre of the Merino so you simply can’t smell them. They’re then released when you wash the jacket.

Fast drying and insulating even when wet

The outside of every Merino fibre is covered in a natural wax coating which makes it water repellent when you’re outside. At the same time, the Merino acts like a sponge to soak up sweat and spread it over a massive surface area so that it evaporates at high speed. And as Merino can absorb over 30% of its own weight in water and still feel dry, you’ll stay warm and insulated.

Merino also helps regulate your temperature

Merino sheep are bred to survive scorching summers and freezing winters, so the fibres of their wool respond and adapt to the conditions you find yourself in – either trapping or releasing heat depending on the temperature and humidity of your skin. Merino wool has to keep sheep cool even when the temperature goes over 30°C, so the Merino fibre naturally absorbs the moisture from sweat and disperses it to start releasing heat.