Mars Jacket
Engineered with an anti-gravity pocket for shifting gravity fields.
- 3D printed vomit pocket with screw cap opening
- Anti-gravity pocket with internal and external zip openings
- Outer material is 100% ballistic nylon
The last time we colonised a planet was around 50,000 years ago. And it led to the invention of clothing and complex tools, as well as the rapid evolution of languages, architecture and society. Now we’re at a unique point in human history where we have the ability to save our own planet at the same time as colonise new ones. So we’re designing for both. Because the future won’t invent itself.
Engineers, explorers, pilots, architects and scientists are all going to need gear up in space. And there’s a lot to design for – from shifting gravitational fields and space adaptation syndrome, to bathroom breaks. Which is why our Mars gear comes with a vomit pocket made from 3D printed Nylon powder, anti-gravity pockets for shifting gravity fields, and a horizontal fly based on flight gear. It’s industrial workwear fit for any planet.
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 |