Full Metal Jacket

Name: 100 Year T Shirt. Long Sleeve White edition
Brand: Vollebak
SKU: TPS031WHTXSM
Price: 145 GBP
Availability: InStock

Built with 11km of copper, and winner of TIME Best Inventions.

£1,495

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Jacket built with over 11km of copper
Highly waterproof, windproof and breathable
7 pockets and metal detailing

Hailed by WIRED as “the virus-killing coat of the future,” and winner of TIME Best Inventions, every Full Metal Jacket is built from 11 kilometres of copper.

Copper is one of the most advanced materials in our solar system. Thrown out of supernovas billions of years ago, it became central to the rise of civilisation, creating tools and sterilising water, before enabling modern day communication, transport, and electrical power. Now, as we look for materials that offer us resistance to disease on Earth and up in space, and a base on which to build intelligent clothing, copper is set to be at the centre of innovation again. Its ability to conduct heat and power while killing bacteria and viruses make it a potential first building block for the future of clothing.

To turn the Full Metal Jacket into high-performance, everyday gear here on Earth today, the copper strands in every jacket are measured by lasers to keep them soft and malleable. The jacket is engineered with an advanced waterproof and breathable membrane that can open and close to respond to different weather conditions. It comes with giant pockets, a fleece-lined neck… and it’s also cured for 6 days.

100 Year T Shirt

Built with Japanese Cordura it’s 14x tougher than a regular cotton t shirt.

£145

Technical Details

Material made in Japan: 60% cotton, 40% polyamide (Cordura)

Highly abrasion resistant

Fast drying

Rib collar and cuffs

Material weighs 160g/m2

T shirt weighs 210 grams

Machine wash 40°C

Constructed in Portugal

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A t shirt made to outlive you

The reality of most cotton t shirts is that after a few years they start to break down, then they’re thrown out. The 100 Year T Shirt is different. While it looks like a regular cotton t shirt, and feels just like a regular cotton t shirt, it’s made from a material so strong it was originally developed for military combat uniforms.

Built with military grade Japanese Cordura

To build the 100 Year T Shirt we’ve worked with a military grade Japanese material that combines soft cotton with Cordura. As a high tenacity Nylon, Cordura is normally found in protective panels on motorcycle gear and hiking boots, not in t shirts. But we’ve found a way of incorporating enough high strength fibres to radically enhance the performance of the t shirt, but without losing the softness of the cotton.

14x tougher than a regular cotton t shirt
Some revolutions look more revolutionary than others. The only way you’d know how strong the 100 Year T Shirt is, is by putting it to the test. We use the Martindale abrasion resistance test on all our 100 Year gear to simulate decades of wear and tear. A mechanical thumb rubs the surface of the fabric repeatedly until the fibres start to break. A normal cotton t shirt which might last around 5 to 15 years typically survives less than 7,000 revolutions. The 100 Year T Shirt’s fabric easily reached 100,000 cycles, where the test stops. Which makes it over 14x stronger than regular cotton.

The t shirt balances extreme durability with comfort
It’s all very well making a t shirt that’s tough enough to outlive you, but it also has to be comfortable enough for you to want to spend the rest of your life in it. So the 100 Year T Shirt is built from a highly abrasion resistant knit that blends soft cotton with military grade fibres.

Designed to help keep your skin on

Abrasion resistance doesn’t just help to increase the lifespan of clothing. It’s also designed to keep your skin attached to your body. Whether you're lugging climbing rope over your shoulder, you come off your bike on a downhill track, or your bag's shifting up and down on your back on a long run, that’s all abrasion. So wearing highly abrasion resistant clothing gives you the best chance of coming home from an adventure with your clothes and your skin intact.

Fast drying and wicking
The material the t shirt is made from is moisture wicking – which means it absorbs any sweat and quickly pulls it to the outside of the material, letting it evaporate to keep you drier and more comfortable. It also means it dries out quickly after washing or if you get caught out in rain.

Detailing designed to last
The entire t shirt is made from the same high strength material, including the rib collar and the cuffs. And it’s held together with dense twin needle stitching. We’ve also set the shoulder seams further forward than you’d normally find them to protect them if you’re carrying a heavy backpack.

Our 100 year range is the toughest gear we make

For our 100 Year range we use advances in material technology to make clothes with a longer life expectancy than the people wearing them – it’s clothing designed to make its way to your grandkids, not to landfill. That’s why all our 100 Year gear is made from materials with properties that normal clothes simply don’t have – from fire resistance to extreme strength.