Our 100 Year Hoodies have always been tough. But our first pullover version of the hoodie is the softest and lightest version we’ve ever made. It’s super stretchy, fleece-lined, breathable, and comes with a big front pouch pocket – so has a classic pullover hoodie feel. But it’s also windproof, water repellent, fire resistant, abrasion resistant, snag resistant, and can withstand temperatures 4x hotter than the sun. So it’s fair to say it’s an upgrade.

Making a hoodie that can do this isn’t easy. In numbers, we’ve spent the last 3 years in R&D working on the 100 Year Hoodie, and the material alone takes 20 weeks to make. And that’s because it combines 4 different layers of material technology.

Stick the 100 Year Hoodie under a microscope and you’ll find 4 different layers of technology that start with the material itself. The inside of the fabric is made from an incredibly dense fleece that’s 4x more windproof than a regular fleece, while the outside of the fabric is a blend of modacrylic and aramid fibres for fire resistance. On top of that there are two coatings. One makes the hoodie highly abrasion resistant, the other helps it shed rain and snow.

While the hoodie is designed to cope with some of the most extreme threats the next century might send your way, on a practical level you’ll find the thick fleece lining makes it ultra-soft on the inside, while the high strength polymer coating makes it incredibly hard-wearing on the outside.

The hoodie is constructed with a custom-engineered high collar designed to protect you from wind, rain and snow. The hood comes with a three-piece panelled construction designed to fit snugly around your head, and it’s double lined for warmth, comfort and durability. In harsh weather the hood tightens with super thick rope-like cords, which are sealed at the ends with a rubberised silicone finish.

The outside of the entire hoodie is embedded with a highly durable coating developed by Polartec called Hardface®. It’s a patented polymer surface treatment that increases the hoodie’s lifespan by making it extremely resistant to abrasion and snagging. The high strength polymers are fused directly into the fibres, so the coating can’t be rubbed off or washed out. It feels completely smooth to the touch, and you only know it’s there by the subtle tessellating pattern that’s visible across the surface of the material.

The hoodie’s outer surface is also coated with a water repellent treatment to help it shed light rain and snow. The type of coating we use is what’s known as a C0, meaning it’s completely free of any toxic fluorocarbons. This same technology helps the hoodie to dry out quickly when it gets wet.

The underside of the hoodie is a soft engineered fleece, and it’s this inner layer that provides the warmth and comfort you want from any great hoodie. It has an extremely compact structure that traps thousands of tiny thermal air pockets and makes it 4x more windproof than regular fleeces. It means you can either wear it just like a regular hoodie, or as your insulation layer in colder temperatures.