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Lumberjeans

Made from raw Japanese selvedge denim combined with ultra-tough aramid fibres.

£445£13370% off

Model is 6ft 2 / 188cm with a 32 inch / 81cm waist, and wears size Medium.

  • 14 oz. raw selvedge Japanese denim
  • Material woven with aramid fibres for extreme strength
  • Tough enough to survive 75kmph falls

The first ever pair of jeans were made for a lumberjack. Built for life in the woods, they were designed to be exceptionally tough – the strongest pants anywhere in the world at the time. But over the last 150 years, jeans have changed to the point where the original lumberjacks wouldn’t even recognise them. Skintight pants with premade rips are about as far away from the origin of jeans as you can get.

So we’ve gone back to the first days of jeans to build them as they were meant to be built. We’ve worked with the world’s most fabled mills and the master craftsmen of denim, and combined that with the toughest modern day materials to create some of the strongest jeans ever made. The Blue edition is made with high-strength raw denim, spun on low-speed looms to create the tightest possible weave, then woven with aramid fibre which is stronger than steel, and reinforced with Cordura panels. They’re the jeans lumberjacks would have wanted.

Black Algae Shorts

Lightweight, breathable, fast drying, and dyed in black algae.

£225£67 70% off

Technical Details

Material made in Italy: 64% cotton, 32% polyamide, 4% elastane
Highly breathable
Fast drying
Two way horizontal stretch
Two open side pockets
Two back pockets with button closure
5 belt loops
Button fly
Shorts weigh 255 grams
Material weighs 149g/m2
Machine wash inside out at 30ºC
Constructed in Portugal
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We start with the softest cotton from the Nile Delta

Each pair of Black Algae Shorts starts with a world-class base material – a rare cotton called Karnak Menoufi. One of the lightest, softest materials 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 the rain, soil and wind conditions are perfect.

They’re super lightweight, highly breathable, and come with a beautifully faded look after being dyed in giant baths of black algae.

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 it with elastane and an ultrafine nylon in Italy. The result is an advanced, lightweight material that feels extremely soft next to your skin. And it’s the exact same high-performance material we use to build our Equator Pants and Shorts for extreme heat.

Constructed with four pockets

You’ll find two open pockets at the front of the shorts. And there are two more pockets at the back of the shorts which each fasten with a bio-resin button.

Buttons made from plants and vegetables

The fly fastens with four buttons made of buffalo imitation bio-resin – 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.

The algae we use starts life in huge open-air ponds where it grows by feeding on sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients.

The first clothing dyed with black algae

We’re on a mission to show that black algae dye can be a viable and sustainable alternative to traditional petroleum-based dyes. So over the last few years we've been working with US biomaterials company Living Ink to accelerate the adoption of black algae as a way to colour clothing. After their founders Scott and Steve discovered that an algae cell is almost identical in size to a carbon black pigment, and can create the same colour, they’ve been on a mission to replace carbon black with black algae waste.

Turning algae into dye took 5 years of R&D

To create a black algae dye, each individual particle in the pigment needs to be microscopically small, otherwise the jacket’s fibres won’t absorb them. So Living Ink have spent 5 years in R&D working on how to reduce the size of the black algae particles to an average of 1 micron. This breakthrough creates a sustainable alternative to dyeing clothing using traditional carbon-black based dyes, and with a clear pathway for scaling up.

To create a black algae dye, each individual particle in the pigment needs to be microscopically small – an average of 1 micron.

Our algae starts life in giant ponds

The algae we use starts life in huge open-air ponds where it grows by feeding on sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients. These ponds contain vast quantities of spirulina algae which absorb carbon dioxide and pump oxygen back out into the atmosphere. While the majority of the algae is used to make natural food colourings, the rest of the algae is harvested and used as the base for black algae dye.

Size + Fit

The Black Algae Shorts are designed with a regular fit. If you’re on the borderline between two waist sizes, we recommend going for the larger size.

SizeXSSMLXLXXL
Fits waist71 - 7676 - 8181 - 8686 - 9191 - 9696 - 101
Outside leg101102.5104105.5107108.5
SizeXSSMLXLXXL
Fits waist28 - 3030 - 3232 - 3434 - 3636 - 3838 - 40
Outside leg39.740.340.941.542.142.7