Equator Pants

Name: Equator T Shirt. Mint Green edition
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: TPS063MNTXSM
Price: 175.00 CAD
Availability: InStock

Ultra lightweight technical pants with an in-built ventilation system.

$495

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Lightweight pants weighing 350 grams
Made with silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta
Advanced ventilation system with 332 laser-cut 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 Pants are built to keep you comfortable in all 40,000km of one of the most extreme environments we currently inhabit and one that’s set to grow. The pants start with one of the lightest and softest materials on the planet – a rare, silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta – which we combine with ultrafine nylon and elastane for durability and stretch. They’re then engineered with an advanced ventilation system built with 332 laser-cut vents and super soft Italian mesh.

Over the last few years, the pants have been worn everywhere from Death Valley California and the Australian Outback, to the deserts of Oman. They’re highly breathable, dry fast after downpours, and you can now wear them with our Equator Jacket as an ultra lightweight travel suit to keep you cool in the heat.

Equator T Shirt

Ultralight. And built to keep you cool in the heat.

$175

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Technical Details

Material made in Italy: 100% mercerised Pima cotton

Highly breathable

Fast drying

Material weighs 140g/m2

T shirt weighs 130 grams

Machine wash 30°C

Constructed in Portugal

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Made with silk-like Pima cotton

While cotton has been cultivated for over 5,000 years, not all cottons are equal. Today upland cotton makes up about 90% of global cotton production, and it’s used for most cotton t shirts. Pima cotton is rarer and only makes up a fraction of all the cotton produced worldwide – under 5%. But it's not only softer and lighter than regular cotton, it’s also more resistant to pilling, fraying and tearing.

Pima cotton is super soft and strong

The fine strands that make up a raw piece of cotton are called staples, and the longer these strands are, the stronger and silkier the cotton will be. Pima cotton is one of the few types of cotton which has extra long staples. On a practical level it means there are fewer edges when the fibres are knitted into fabric, because there are fewer strands. And this is what produces a material that’s really soft and really strong at the same time.

The cotton is mercerised to keep you cool

In hot and humid conditions, the last thing you want is for your clothes to cling to you and stick to your skin, so the Equator T Shirt goes through a process called mercerisation. Designed to make the t shirt feel even smoother and silkier, it also helps it hold its shape and structure in the heat. So instead of sticking to you, it’s designed to keep a gap between your skin and the material, so that air can still move between your body and the t shirt to help cool you down.

It’s ultralight and 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 t shirt is ultra lightweight at 130 grams, so it dries quickly. It means the shirt is at home in a rainforest as it is in the city.