Equator Shorts

Name: Equator Shorts. Grey edition
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: SHO013GRYXSM
Price: 275.00 CHF
Availability: InStock

Built for the hottest and most humid places on the planet.

CHF 275

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Colour: grey edition

Model is 5ft 11 / 180cm with a 32 inch / 81cm waist, and wears size Medium.

Lightweight shorts weighing 230 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 Shorts are built to keep you comfortable in all 40,000km of one of the most extreme environments we currently inhabit. The shorts start with one of the lightest and softest fabrics on the planet – a rare, silk-like cotton from the Nile Delta – which we combine with ultrafine nylon and elastane for durability and stretch.

Designed to keep you comfortable in even the most extreme heat, they’re highly breathable, UV resistant, and come with an advanced ventilation system built with 332 laser-cut vents.

Technical Details

Material made in Italy: 64% cotton, 32% polyamide, 4% elastane

Shorts weigh 230 grams

Two-way horizontal stretch

Fast drying

2 perforated side air vents concealed inside side pockets

2 perforated rear air vents concealed inside rear pockets

Total of 332 laser-cut vents concealed in the side and rear pockets

2 side pockets and 2 rear pockets, all with lockable zippers

Hidden pocket on front leg

Pocket lining made in France: 92% polyamide, 8% elastane

Bioresin button on waistband, with an angled button cover

Additional bioresin button on inner waistband

Fly fastens with a zipper

5 belt loops each measuring 60mm

Machine wash 30°C or gentle dry clean

Do not tumble dry

Iron on low heat

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 Shorts to equip you for it. To build shorts that can work in all 40,000km of the equator we start 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. And it’s exactly the same material we use to build our Equator Shirt.

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

We turn cotton into a high performance material

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. And as shorts typically take more of a beating than shirts, we’ve woven more nylon into the cotton than we do with the shirt, to add more strength. The result is an advanced, lightweight material that feels extremely soft next to your skin.

Lightweight and breathable

As global temperatures rise and climate zones shift, clothes have to respond. That’s why the Equator Shorts are built to handle extreme heat. The material is highly breathable, which means sweat can escape fast. They’re also super lightweight at 230 grams, which makes them easy to wear or pack on any adventure.

The shorts are engineered with 332 laser-cut vents to keep you cool in the hottest places on the planet.

The ventilation system works like in-built air-con

Designed for hot, humid and arid environments, the Equator Shorts are engineered with the same ventilation system as the Equator Jacket, Equator Shirt and Equator Pants. Inside each pocket you’ll find laser-cut and bonded panels with rows of perforated vents. The vents are designed to let air flow through the shorts simply by opening the pockets.

2 side pockets with hidden vents

The two side pockets are built with angled lockable zippers that fasten in position. And you’ll find the first set of hidden vents inside the pockets when you need to cool down. The laser-cut panels inside each pocket have 92 holes to create 184 mini air streams.

The 2 back pockets also have in-built vents

The zipped back pockets are built with the same hidden laser-cut panels that allow air in when you open them up. The pockets open and close with concealed lockable zippers and each panel here comes with 74 vents. You’ll also find a fifth pocket just above the right knee, with the opening concealed beneath a small storm flap along the seam.

The Equator Shorts are 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.

Fast drying from rain and humidity

Rainstorms and humidity 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 material is lightweight and elastic so it dries quickly, making the shorts as at home in a rainforest as they are in a city. And the extra airflow from the ventilation will help your skin dry faster at the same time as the shorts.

Horizontal stretch

The last thing you want when you’re pulling any extreme or repetitive move in the heat is resistance from your kit. The Equator Shorts have two-way horizontal stretch, so whichever way you pull, turn or stretch, they will simply go with you.

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

An angled button cover and 5 belt loops

The fly fastens securely with a zipper and two bioresin buttons, one on the outside of the waistband and one on the inside. The outer button has an angled button cover, and the 60mm belt loops will work with almost any belt.

Buttons made from plants and vegetables

The buttons are made from 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, each button is sculpted with a highly polished 30 degree taper towards the edge to make it easy to slip into place.

Size	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL
Fits waist	71 - 76	76 - 81	81 - 86	86 - 91	91 - 96	96 - 101
Outside length	47	48	49	50	51	52
Inseam length	20	20.5	21	21.5	22	22.5

Size	XS	S	M	L	XL	XXL
Fits waist	28 - 30	30 - 32	32 - 34	34 - 36	36 - 38	38 - 40
Outside length	18.5	18.9	19.3	19.7	20.1	20.5
Inseam length	7.9	8.1	8.3	8.5	8.7	8.9

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