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Crocs Equips The Echo Gum Ro With Adventure-Ready Outsoles
Crocs further expands into outdoor territory with the addition of the adventure-ready Echo Gum Ro Clog. The design retains most of the beloved footwear brand’s Croslite foam construction and signature perforations. It also retains the soft and cushy LiteRide drop-in footbed. The upgrade is with the outsole, which may be its most campground-ready design yet.
Instead of using a single piece of Croslite for both upper and outsole, this design features a full-length treaded rubber outsole. It’s a fully molded bold sculpting that flows seamlessly with the clog’s organic lines. It provides both style and stable ground support, offering a sport-inspired silhouette that keeps streetwear at its core.
The thick, threaded rubber outsole of the Echo Gum Ro provides more capable traction across any terrain. It ensures a better grip even in inclement weather and makes it outdoor-ready, compatible for use during camping, hiking, trekking, and more. Moreover, the sporty nylon back strap keeps the clogs comfortably and securely snug to prevent slippage.
The heel pad on the back strap also provides extra comfort, along with the LiteRide footbed, which offers revolutionary sink-in softness for everyday wear. Likewise, the design is water-friendly and buoyant, making it light on the feet, yet ready for adventures. The perforated upper also makes the footwear breathable, easy to clean, and fast drying.
The Echo Gum Ro is ideal for urban and light jungle adventures. Its stylish design, especially when customized with Crocs’ Jibbitz charms, makes it a staple in streetwear fashion. It even comes in colorful variants to suit unique tastes.
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Vollebak’s Deep Sea Diver Hoodie Is Built With Special Forces Tech
The abyss is extremely cold and requires special underwater gear for one to survive its unforgiving pressure levels. A wetsuit won’t cut it, but a drysuit made with ultra-thick, flexible fleece can. We’re talking about the drysuit material technology that keeps the Britsh Special Forces alive underwater in temperatures below 10°C. Vollebak brought that same lightweight and hydrophobic tech to land with its latest release, the Deep Sea Diver Hoodie.
It may look like a simple hoodie but it packs 539 grams per square meter of fleece, the densest Vollebak has ever used for a hoodie. Its the warmest among its kind from the brand as it traps more heat. Yet, it is still breathable and comfortable to wear.
The 2.6-pound Deep Sea Diver Hoodie wicks away moisture and sweat, is fast-drying, and odor-resistant. It is also engineered for mobility with Polartec Power Stretch fabric (91% polyester, 9% elastane) that offers the same four-way elasticity from the British Special Force’s drysuits. It bends, stretches, and rebounds in any direction so it adapts to your movements.
Meanwhile, a two-way front zipper with moleskin and faux-suede tape offers ventilation and comfort where the zippers come into contact with the skin. Vollebak also added egg-shaped pockets for warmth and a double-lined snorkel hood that offers a protective microclimate around the head.
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Vollebak’s Carbon Fiber + Dyneema Pants Are Virtually Indestructible
Vollebak’s Carbon Fiber + Dyneema Pants will last for many years of uses and still look and feel comfortable. It offers lightweight strength and amazing stretch, making it great performance as well as stylish casual wear.
Using Dyneema and carbon fiber in its construction should already tell you that this pair means business. It can go on outdoor adventures and back to the urban jungle and still remain sturdy as the first day you wore it.
Vollebak says the Carbon Fiber + Dyneema Pants are the “strongest and stretchiest lightweight pants” they’ve ever built. On the surface, it features a subtle checked pattern that provides the fabric stylish protection.
Woven horizontally throughout the pants are thousands of white strands of Dyneema, which is 15x stronger than steel. Then woven vertically are thousands of strands of carbon fiber, which is usually used to reinforce aircraft and spacecraft components, and race cars due to its lightweight strength.
Hence, Vollebak’s Carbon Fiber + Dyneema Pants weighs just 350g yet it offers four-way stretch and is highly resistant to water and abrasion. So you can take it camping or hiking and it can resist friction caused by impact with rocks, trees, dirt, and more. These pants are durable against regular wear and tear over time.
Moreover, they are breathable with articulated construction at the knees for comfort whether when running or climbing. These pants are also fast drying so they work well as gym pants too. Vollebak’s Carbon Fiber + Dyneema Pants are super light, super stretchy, and tough you’d just want to wear them to every adventure you go to.
Vollebak’s Graphene Jacket: Warm & Cool Weather Protection
The summer months mean keeping our body constantly cool, especially when working out a sweat in the gym or while being under the heat of the sun. Wearable air conditioners work wonders in cooling body temperature. But when it comes to apparel, Vollebak’s Graphene Jacket offers great thermoregulating performance, so you stay less hot and sweaty but also feel warm during sudden cold weather changes.
Wearing a jacket in the summer heat seems counterintuitive. But it helps to be ready in the off-chance of a downpour. This stylish wear boasts high thermal regulating properties that adapt to the surrounding temperature.
Vollebak’s Graphene Jacket uses graphene to efficiently store and redistribute heat during the cold months to keep you warm. But it is also highly breathable and reduces humidity next to your body. Lab tests show a consistently lower humidity level during every phase of exercise and recovery. This means, you feel less hot and sweaty.
The best part is it’s highly waterproof so you stay dry and comfortable in the rain. The jacket’s membrane is tightly packed to prevent drops of water from penetrating the material from the outside. But it allows sweat from your body to evaporate to keep you cool and comfortable.
Templa’s Puffer Jacket Fully Biodegrades In Five Years
Luxury performance brand Templa and ALLIED Feather + Down (AF+D) teamed up to design a puffer jacket that completely disappears in five years under anaerobic environments. It incorporates 800 fill power down insulation with biodegradable synthetic fibers for a more eco-conscious approach.
The design aims to help reduce the carbon footprint associated with traditional production methods by using 99% biodegradable materials. The fabrics underwent validation tests conducted by Amni Soul Eco by Solvay and CiCLO. The trimmings are from premium performance wear manufacturer Active Apparel Group (AAG).
Meanwhile, the fashion-forward performance silhouette is from Templa. This puffer jacket vanishes entirely from the earth when buried underground where there is no oxygen. A winner of the 2024 ISPO Award, the design kicks off ALLIED’s new Future Now: program with AAG and Templa, beginning with the Designing to Disappear project.
It’s part of an initiative to produce performance recyclable outerwear using biomaterials. ALLIED creative director Matthew Betcher says down is the ideal insulation to combine with biodegradable fabrics and trims. It is “supremely suited for use in any sustainability-minded apparel program” because it is “a renewable, biodegradable by-product of the food supply chain.” Likewise, down isn’t just biodegradable, but also recyclable and boasts an exceedingly low carbon footprint as a raw material.
Templa’s puffer jacket is due for release in September 2025 as part of the brand’s Fall/Winter 2025 – Edition 12 Collection. It represents the brand’s identity as a luxury outdoor performance brand that perceptively navigates the alpine and urban fashion worlds. It has waterproof capabilities and works on the mountains. But its biodegradable components turn it from a stylish puffy jacket to a sustainable garment that leaves the earth without a trace.
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