Equator Shirt

Name: Equator Shirt. Black edition
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: TPS102BLKXSM
Price: 295 GBP
Availability: InStock

As the planet heats up, this shirt is built to keep you cool.

£295

Colour: black edition

Model is 6ft 2 / 188cm with a 39 inch / 99cm chest, and wears size Large.

Ultra lightweight weighing 196 grams
Made with silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta
Two-way stretch

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 blending in polyamide for durability and elastane for two-way stretch.

Technical Details

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

Shirt weighs 196 grams

Two-way stretch

Material weighs 97g/m2

Rare Karnak Menoufi cotton sourced from the Nile Delta

Two-way stretch throughout

Armhole is French seamed and bound

Bound shoulder seams

Grown-on placket with concealed button closure

Cuff with visible outer button and hidden inner button on placket

Recycled polyester buttons, cross-stitched for durability

Side seam vents

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.

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. The result is an advanced, abrasion resistant material which feels almost silk-like next to your skin.

ULTRA LIGHTWEIGHT AT JUST 196 GRAMS

As global temperatures rise and climate zones shift, clothes have to respond. Weighing just 196 grams, the Equator Shirt is the most technical lightweight shirt ever built, and half the weight of our Planet Earth Shirt. Built 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.

A CLASSIC, MINIMALIST DESIGN

The shirt has a classic two-piece collar with no topstitching. A grown-on placket hides the buttons down the front. And the cuffs combine a visible closure with a hidden sleeve button on the placket for a sharper finish. Inside, there are French seams, bound shoulder seams, and bound armhole seams for strength and comfort. And all buttons are made from recycled polyester and cross-stitched for durability.

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.