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Future Suit Pants

Ultramodern weatherproof suit pants. Suitable for time travel or going out to dinner.

$495

Colour: black edition

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Model is 5ft 11 / 180cm with a 32 inch / 81cm waist, and wears size Medium.

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

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 Future Suit Pants and Future Suit Jacket are an ultramodern, completely weatherproof take on what we used to call a suit. Both the streamlined jacket and pants are made from Merino that we’ve transformed into a smooth, minimalist, high tech material.

The Future Suit Pants retain all the high performance properties of Merino – they’re water resistant, breathable, kill bacteria, and regulate your temperature. And we’ve combined that with the minimalist technical detailing of a highly streamlined pair of cargo pants.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

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

Tightly woven weather resistant fabric

Highly windproof and water resistant

Naturally breathable, antibacterial and UV resistant

Elasticated waistband

Metal drawcord tips

2 open hip pockets

2 slanted bellows pockets with water resistant zippers

2 rear reverse entry pockets

Articulated knees

Hidden drawcords at ankle cuffs with rubber drawcord stoppers

Weighs 400 grams

Machine wash 30°C

Constructed in China

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

Tightly woven weather resistant fabric

Highly windproof and water resistant

Naturally breathable, antibacterial and UV resistant

Elasticated waistband

Metal drawcord tips

2 open hip pockets

2 slanted bellows pockets with water resistant zippers

2 rear reverse entry pockets

Articulated knees

Hidden drawcords at ankle cuffs with rubber drawcord stoppers

Weighs 400 grams

Machine wash 30°C

Constructed in China

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A suit built for time travelling, 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 Future Suit is an ultramodern, completely weatherproof take on what we used to call a suit.

The Future Suit transforms Merino into a smooth, minimalist, high tech material.

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

While our Future Suit 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 Future Suit 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.

How we make the suit windproof and water resistant

The Future Suit 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 pants are 5x more wind resistant than normal Merino and last half an hour in the rain before they even get 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.

A cross between cargo pants and suit pants

Cargo pants were invented in World War II, before becoming the go-to pants for breakdancing, skateboarding or pissing off your parents in the 80s and 90s. For the Future Suit Pants we’ve retained the comfort and versatility of the original cargo pants while streamlining the design.

The Future Suit that is designed to take you from a plane to a boardroom, to a lunch, to a mountain.

Built with minimalist detailing

An elasticated waistband fastens with a drawcord and metal cord ends. There are two slanted darts on both pant legs to give your knees more room. And we’ve also added elements from traditional tailoring, like a fake fly opening, so you can wear them casually or to something a bit more formal.

You can tighten the cuffs at speed

You’ll find hidden drawcords at the ankles which can pull the cuffs tight. It’s the same high spec rubber cord lock we use on our jackets. To use it, just place two fingers on either side, pinch and pull towards you to cinch the fabric around the ankles or pull away from you to loosen the cord.

The Future Suit 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.

How the jacket and pants fit

We’ve cut the pants and jacket so that they’re relaxed enough to feel comfortable all day, but smart enough for when you’ve got a dress code to meet. The jacket is fitted but never restricts you, and the pants come with a slight taper towards the bottom of the leg.

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.

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.