Equator Shirt with Collar

Name: Equator Shirt with Collar. Black edition
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: TPS079BLKXSM
Price: 295 GBP
Availability: InStock

Made with a rare and ultra lightweight silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta.

£295

Equator Shirt with Collar. Black edition

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Colour: black edition

Model is 6ft 2 / 189cm with a 40 inch / 101cm chest, and wears size Large.

Ultra lightweight weighing 230 grams
Made with silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta
Advanced ventilation system with 12 concealed air vents

Home to some of the hottest and most humid places on the planet, the equator carves through dense tropical jungles, warm seas, and crowded cities. Instead of seasons or temperature changes you’re more likely to be hit by a wall of heat, sun, rain and humidity. But as global temperatures rise and climate zones shift, designing clothing for the equator is like designing for our future.

So the Equator Shirt is built to keep you comfortable in all 40,000km of one of the most extreme environments we currently inhabit. The shirt starts with one of the lightest and softest fabrics on the planet, a rare, silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta. We then turned this into a phenomenally lightweight technical shirt by adding stretch, strength and concealed laser-cut air vents that work like built-in air-con. We’ve also added a collar to this edition of the Equator Shirt, so you can now stay cool in the heat, and get into all the places that still like you to wear collars.

Technical Details

Material made in Italy: 72% cotton, 24% polyamide, 4% elastane

This edition of the Equator Shirt has a collar

Shirt weighs 230 grams

Two-way stretch throughout the shirt

12 concealed air vents

8 air vents across the back reinforced with bartacks

2 underarm air vents constructed with a high-stretch Italian mesh fabric: 80% polyester, 20% elastane

2 perforated chest air vents concealed inside chest pockets

2 zipped chest pockets with lockable zippers

All seams are twin needle stitched with two lines of stitching to double the strength

12 heat resistant buttons made from bioresin

All buttons are anchored on their own heavy duty woven polyester military tape with reinforced stitching

Reinforced hanging loop at the back neck

Two-piece sleeves engineered for movement

A 20cm strap inside each sleeve to hold rolled-up sleeves in place

Material weighs 95g/m2

Machine wash 30°C

Constructed in Portugal

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WE START WITH THE SOFTEST COTTON FROM THE NILE DELTA

Life at the equator offers us a glimpse of our future - a world of non-stop sun, heat, humidity and rainstorms. So we’ve built the Equator Shirt to equip you for it. To build a shirt that can work in all 40,000km of the equator we started with a world-class base material – a rare cotton called Karnak Menoufi. One of the lightest, softest fabrics on the planet, Karnak Menoufi is a silk-like cotton that’s only found in the Nile Delta, and only grows in the years when rain, soil and wind conditions are perfect.

Our Equator gear has been worn everywhere from Death Valley California and the Australian Outback, to the deserts of Oman.

WE TURN COTTON INTO A HIGH PERFORMANCE FABRIC

While Karnak Menoufi is already extremely soft and robust, we’ve added durability and stretch by combining the cotton with elastane and ultrafine nylon in Italy. Together the combination is so soft and lightweight that it has to be spun and woven with the same techniques and on the same looms that are used for silk. The result is an advanced, abrasion resistant material which feels almost silk-like next to your skin.

ULTRA LIGHTWEIGHT AT JUST 230 GRAMS

As global temperatures rise and climate zones shift, clothes have to respond. Weighing just 230 grams, the Equator Shirt is the most technical lightweight collared shirt ever built. Engineered for the heat, the Equator Shirt is highly breathable, ultra lightweight and packable – so it’s perfect for any adventure. Whether it’s on your back or in your backpack you’ll never notice it’s there.

The shirt is engineered with 12 concealed air vents to keep you cool in the hottest places on the planet.

12 CONCEALED AIR VENTS WORK LIKE IN-BUILT AIR-CON

We’ve built 12 concealed air vents throughout the shirt to cool you down, with three different methods of engineering. Designed for hot, humid and arid environments, each vent opens and closes either with body movement or with zip closures. And we’ve put them in the places you’ll need them the most – across your back, under your arms, and on your chest.

TWO CHEST POCKETS WITH HIDDEN VENTS

The two chest pockets are built with angled lockable zippers. Inside each of the pockets are hidden vents for when you need to cool down. Simply unzip each pocket to reveal perforated laser-cut panels that will create multiple air streams. When you’re moving fast this will channel any air from the outside directly towards your chest to cool you faster.

TWO MESH UNDERARM VENTS

Underneath each arm you’ll find an open vent lined with feather-soft, super elastic, lightweight Italian mesh fabric. It’s fast drying and incredibly breathable so sweat can escape easily and air can flow into your shirt to cool you quickly. The sleeves are engineered to move with you, so they’re cut like sports gear rather than an office shirt.

The Equator Shirt is built from a rare, silk-like cotton that’s only found in the Nile Delta and only grows when the rain, soil and wind conditions are perfect.

AIR-CON FOR YOUR UPPER BACK

The last 8 air vents are positioned across your upper back. These are engineered to stay open and bring constant airflow. Two layers of fabric overlap and are securely fixed with bartacks. It means they won’t blow open and your skin will stay protected, but the air can flow in.

TWO-WAY STRETCH AND TWIN NEEDLE STITCHED FOR PERFORMANCE

The last thing you want when you’re pulling any extreme or repetitive move in the heat is resistance from your kit. The Equator Shirt has two-way horizontal stretch, so whichever way you stretch, pull or turn, it will simply go with you. We’ve also used twin needle stitching on every seam, which is two lines of stitching instead of one to double the strength.

BUTTONS MADE FROM PLANTS AND VEGETABLES

Every button on the shirt is made of buffalo imitation bioresin – a natural, non-toxic and water-based material we’ve produced by combining plant and vegetable waste with a polyester resin used by the aerospace industry. Lightweight and heat resistant, all the buttons are sculpted with a highly polished 30 degree taper towards the edges to make them easy to slip into place.

FREE-FLOATING BUTTONS ANCHORED ON MILITARY TAPES

Even the way the shirt buttons up has been engineered to work with sweaty hands and hostile conditions. Rather than being sewn onto the shirt, the buttons on the front of the shirt have all been threaded onto a high-strength woven polyester tape that runs the shirt’s entire length. The tape is then stitched onto reinforced panels above and below each button. The construction allows the shirt to stretch and flex with you, as each button is free to slide 2cm up and down its section of military tape.

Life at the equator offers us a glimpse of our future – a world of non-stop sun, heat, humidity and rainstorms.

ENGINEERED SLEEVES THAT STAY UP IN ANY CONDITION

If you’re moving hard and fast and want your sleeves to stay rolled, you’ll find a 20cm long reinforced strap on the inside of each sleeve that you can pull out, up and over the rolled sleeve and fasten to a small slip button on the outside of the upper arm. The fastening is secured on its own reinforced patch of military tape. If you’re wearing the sleeves down, the cuffs fasten with two bioresin buttons.

IT’S FAST DRYING FROM RAIN AND HUMIDITY

Humidity and rainstorms are going to soak you one way or another at the equator, so the key is about drying really fast, rather than trying to avoid getting wet. The fabric is ultra lightweight and elastic so it dries quickly, making the shirt as at home in a rainforest as it is in a city. And the extra airflow from the ventilation will help your skin dry faster at the same time as the shirt.

Size	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL
Fits chest	83 - 90	91 - 98	99 - 106	107 - 114	115 - 122	123 - 130
Fits waist	71 - 76	76 - 81	81 - 86	86 - 91	91 - 96	96 - 101

Size	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL
Fits chest	33 - 36	36 - 39	39 - 42	42 - 45	45 - 48	48 - 51
Fits waist	28 - 30	30 - 32	32 - 34	34 - 36	36 - 38	38 - 40

THE EQUATOR RANGE

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