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Planet Earth Suit Pants 2

Name: Planet Earth Suit Pants 2
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: PNT056NVYXSM
Price: 595.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Weatherproof, bacteria-killing, temperature-regulating suit pants made from high tech Merino.

$595

Colour: black edition

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Model is 6ft 2 / 188cm with a 32 inch / 81cm waist, and wears size Medium.

Made with a completely new type of high tech Merino
It's incredibly smooth and soft on your skin
Breathable, windproof and water resistant

All our suits are based on the very strict brief of “could it survive an entire Christopher Nolan movie?” And the Planet Earth Suit 2, is no different.

While it takes its design cues from our first Planet Earth Suit, the second edition combines a matching jacket and pants made from ultralight and densely woven Merino that we’ve transformed into an incredibly smooth, minimalist, high tech material. So it’s wool, but not as you know it. It can stand in the rain for half an hour before it even feels damp. It’s 5x more windproof than normal Merino. It’s breathable. It kills bacteria. It’s naturally elastic. And it regulates your temperature in the heat and cold.

Engineered with minimalist technical detailing, the pants are soft, tailored and understated. They come with 4 zipped pockets, 6 x 60mm belt loops, and a 4 centimetre hem with blind stitching means they can be easily adjusted by a tailor without breaking the line of the leg.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

70% Optim™ Merino wool, 20% polyester, 10% polyamide

Water and wind resistant with no chemical coatings

Breathable, temperature regulating and antibacterial

6 belt loops

Zipped fly

Fly fastens with metal snap fastener and internal button

2 side pockets with hidden zippers

2 back pockets with hidden zippers

Bound seam construction

Main material weighs 179 g/m2

Pants weigh 386 grams

Gentle machine wash 30ºC

Do not iron

Do not dry clean

Do not tumble dry

Do not bleach

Constructed in China

70% Optim™ Merino wool, 20% polyester, 10% polyamide

Water and wind resistant with no chemical coatings

Breathable, temperature regulating and antibacterial

6 belt loops

Zipped fly

Fly fastens with metal snap fastener and internal button

2 side pockets with hidden zippers

2 back pockets with hidden zippers

Bound seam construction

Main material weighs 179 g/m2

Pants weigh 386 grams

Gentle machine wash 30ºC

Do not iron

Do not dry clean

Do not tumble dry

Do not bleach

Constructed in China

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Built for fight scenes in the rain, or going out to dinner

If Tenet and Inception are anything to go by, then we’re still going to be wearing suits in the future – they might just need to be able to cope with time travel and dream hijacking, as well as the office and going out to dinner. So our Planet Earth Suit 2 is an ultramodern, completely weatherproof take on what we used to call a suit.

A weatherproof, bacteria-killing, temperature regulating suit made from high tech Merino.

Made from high performance Merino. But not as you know it

While our Planet Earth Suit 2 is built from ultrafine Merino, you’d never know it. Merino has its roots in classic suits, but we’ve completely transformed how the wool feels and what it looks like. This is Merino transformed into a smooth, minimalist, high tech material.

Designed to take you from the boardroom to the mountain

To build the Planet Earth Suit 2 we’ve retained and enhanced all the high performance properties of Merino – it’s still water resistant, highly windproof and breathable, while killing bacteria and regulating your temperature – but we’ve made it completely smooth and soft against your skin. And we’ve cut it into a design that will take you from a plane to a boardroom, to a lunch, to a mountain.

We’ve transformed ultrafine Merino into a smooth, minimalist, high tech material.

How we make the suit windproof and water resistant

The Planet Earth Suit 2 is built with Merino wool engineered using Optim™ spinning technology. The fibres are pre-stretched, spun into yarn and woven into fabric, before a wet-finishing process is applied that makes the fibres contract and the weave structure tighten. The result is a super-dense and tightly woven fabric that’s 5x more wind resistant than normal, and can last half an hour in the rain before it even gets damp.

The engineering process makes the Merino ultrasoft

The quality of Merino is judged on its ‘micron count.’ This refers to the diameter of an individual fibre measured in microns, or thousandths of a millimetre. The smaller the diameter, the finer the fibre. The finer the fibre, the softer the fabric. The micron count of Merino wool can be as low as 15 – which is the same as cashmere. The spinning process takes the micron count of our Merino even lower, which is why it feels so smooth and silk-like.

4 pockets built for stealth

At either side of the pants you’ll find two angled pockets built with zippers that lock into place. The zippers are completely concealed behind the fabric so that only the puller is visible. There are two more hidden zipped pockets at the back of the pants.

A minimalist waistband

The fly fastens securely with a zipper, an invisible metal snap and a second inner button. And with a width of 60mm, the 6 belt loops are designed to be compatible with almost any belt. Inside, the pants are half-lined at the front with a lightweight technical cotton blend to reduce friction and increase comfort. Every seam is either bound or blind stitched for durability and clean construction, inside and out. And a 4 centimetre hem with blind stitching means they can be easily adjusted by a tailor without breaking the line of the leg.

The Planet Earth Suit 2 is an ultramodern, high performance travel suit.

Built for travelling light

Both the pants and jacket are super easy to fold and pack down into a bag for travel. At the other end of the journey you can simply pull them out the bag, shake them out and throw the suit on, making it perfect for the times when you need to travel light. The pants are incredibly smooth and soft against your skin, so won’t scratch you or itch like wool can. And Merino is also naturally elastic so it’s not going to create any resistance.

The pants are antibacterial

It’s not sweat that smells, or even the clothes themselves, it’s the build-up of bacteria on the surface of the clothes. Merino is naturally odour resistant – odour molecules are absorbed and locked into the centre of the fibre of the Merino so you simply can’t smell them. They’re then released when you wash the pants.

Designed to take you from a plane to a boardroom, to a lunch, to a mountain.

Fast drying and insulating even when wet

The outside of every Merino fibre is covered in a natural wax coating which makes it water repellent when you’re outside. At the same time the Merino acts like a sponge to soak up sweat and spread it over a massive surface area so that it evaporates at high speed. And as Merino can absorb over 30% of its own weight in water and still feel dry, you’ll stay warm and insulated.

Merino also helps regulate your temperature

Merino sheep are bred to survive scorching summers and freezing winters, so the fibres of their wool respond and adapt to the conditions you find yourself in – either trapping or releasing heat depending on the temperature and humidity of your skin. Merino wool has to keep sheep cool even when the temperature goes over 30°C, so the Merino fibre naturally absorbs the moisture from sweat and disperses it to start releasing heat.