Mars Hoodie

Name: Equator T Shirt. Mint Green edition
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: TPS063MNTXSM
Price: 125.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Meet the 3D-knitted space hoodie built by robots here on Earth.

$795

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Double-layered, 3D-knitted hoodie
Built by the same machines that build mattresses
Ultra-soft material embedded with anti-bacterial silver microparticles

Life on any early Martian base will be intense – as we’ll have to rebuild everything we take for granted here on Earth. It means downtime will be key. So we’ve started working on chill-out gear for Mars that’s designed to help you feel at home, even if you’re 249 million miles away.

Built by the same machines that build beds, the Mars Hoodie is the ultimate comfort hoodie – it’s what you’ll wear when you’re watching your favourite TV show from Earth on another planet. The double-layered, weighted, 3D knitted hoodie is created out of multi-dimensional fabric, and unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Its padded, sculptural texture is based on the Martian surface, the cooling systems on spacesuits, and the pressurised inflatable buildings likely to become home on our second planet.

Equator T Shirt

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

$125

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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.