Lumberjeans
Made from raw Japanese selvedge denim combined with ultra-tough aramid fibres.
- 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.
Technical Details
They’re super lightweight, highly breathable, and come with a beautifully faded look after being dyed in giant baths of black algae.
They’re lightweight, breathable and fast drying
The shorts are super lightweight at 255 grams, which makes them easy to wear or pack on any adventure. The material is highly breathable, which means sweat can escape fast. It dries quickly too, making the shorts as at home in a rainforest as they are in a city.
Garment dyeing gives the shorts a faded patina
While most clothes are dyed with a process called piece dyeing – where huge rolls of fabric are dyed, before being cut and sewn to make clothing – we garment dye every pair of Black Algae Shorts by fully submerging them in the world’s first black algae dye to give them their dark grey colour. Garment dyeing makes the shorts look and feel lived-in from the day you get them, with the colours building up in the stitching and creases while coming out paler at the edges. It’s what gives these shorts their distinctive faded patina.
The algae we use starts life in huge open-air ponds where it grows by feeding on sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients.
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.
Size | XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL |
Fits waist | 71 - 76 | 76 - 81 | 81 - 86 | 86 - 91 | 91 - 96 | 96 - 101 |
Outside leg | 101 | 102.5 | 104 | 105.5 | 107 | 108.5 |
Size | XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL |
Fits waist | 28 - 30 | 30 - 32 | 32 - 34 | 34 - 36 | 36 - 38 | 38 - 40 |
Outside leg | 39.7 | 40.3 | 40.9 | 41.5 | 42.1 | 42.7 |