Field log 026 · Spring Summer 26
Wear it
Wherever
Activewear built in the places it gets used. Every piece carries a logged location, a temperature and a set of notes from the people who wore it in.
The range
Pieces that came back
with notes
What you are buying
Four numbers that
actually matter
280 gsm
Knit that holds
Our sculpt knit is dense enough to stay opaque under load and still recover its shape after every wash.
Zero side seams
Nothing to rub
Seamless bodies and bonded edges keep stitch lines away from straps, waistbands and pack contact points.
1,460 hours
Worn in first
Nothing ships until it has been through a full test block in the conditions it was made for.
60 days
Wear it and see
Train in it, wash it, put it through a full week. If it does not hold up, send it back for a refund.
The test programme
We send it out
before we sell it
Sample kit goes to 40 people in the places the gear is meant for. They log what worked and what did not, and the notes go straight back into the pattern.
- ColdMinus 6 C in the Jungfrau region. The grid fleece stayed warm damp, so we kept the raised face and moved the cuff seam.
- Heat38 C on the Lahore canal loop. Twelve minute dry time on the mesh tank, and the hem stopped riding up once we added weight to it.
- WetA 22 kmh crosswind and rain in Regent's Park. Taped shoulders held, and the hood needed a wider elastic bind to stay on.
- Altitude4,200 m on the Khumbu approach. Layering had to work through a 20 degree swing between sun and shade.
From the log
What testers wrote
Ran the Contour through a wet winter block and a summer of hill reps. Waistband has not rolled once, which is more than I can say for anything else in the drawer.
The windbreaker packs down to nothing and still blocked a proper river headwind. I keep it clipped to my waistband and forget it is there.
Sized up on the Recovery crew and it has become the only thing I wear on a rest day. Would like a longer sleeve, and they have taken that note.
Field log
Get the notes
before the drop
Test results, restocks and the odd early link. Roughly two emails a month, and nothing else.