Why cotton?
Cotton first. Performance where it matters. Here’s the thinking — carefully, and without pretending we’ve proven anything we haven’t.
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The few millimetres between fabric and skin have their own temperature and humidity. Over a twelve-hour shift, that microclimate is most of what you actually feel — more than the label, more than the marketing. Fibre choice is one of the things that shapes it.
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Cotton absorbs moisture into the fibre itself; most common synthetics move it along the surface instead. Neither is universally better — they behave differently, and they feel different against skin. Many people describe cotton's hand-feel as softer and more familiar, which matters when you're wearing something all day.
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Workwear isn't a forty-minute workout garment. It's on your body while you sweat, cool down, sweat again, get splashed, and keep going. We think that deserves a different fabric conversation than activewear gets.
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We're not anti-synthetic. Small amounts of elastane and engineered fibre do things cotton alone can't: recovery, durability, easy care. The goal is to maximize cotton and other natural or cellulosic fibres, and use synthetics only where they earn their place.
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Synthetic textiles are understood to shed microfibres during wear and laundering, and those fibres are widely detected in the environment. Research is ongoing and the picture is complicated. We treat it as a reason to be thoughtful about fibre content, not as a marketing weapon.
What we don’t say
None of these are things we can responsibly claim. When our fabric has been tested, we’ll publish what it actually does.
Research we’re reading
We’re building a reading list on textile microclimate, fibre-moisture behaviour and synthetic microfibre shedding. Rather than paraphrase studies we haven’t linked, we’re leaving the shelf visible and empty until the citations are here.
You shouldn’t be thinking about your waistband at 3:47 p.m.