Pivot Sleeve Shirt - An Experiment in Form
This is quite simply a better men's dress shirt. We started out with a basic task, how could we make a shirt that moved better on a cyclists body, but we wound up with something a bit more subtle. A buttondown shirt cut to fit the body better and open up a range of motion constrained by traditional shirt construction. An experiment in form, the Outlier Pivot Sleeve Shirt.
The basic challenge was straightforward, when you lean forward on a bike a buttondown shirt stresses. It pulls uncomfortably taut across the shoulders. The sleeves pull up exposing your wrists to the cold, and the tails pull out of your pants, leaving you either untucked or with a blooming blouse of a shirt. Our solution is the patent-pending Pivot Sleeve, a completely reconstructed buttondown that retains the traditional look and feel of a dress shirt while working equally well both on and off the bicycle.
From the front it looks like a well cut dress shirt. Like a good stage show, the magic takes place in back unseen by most. The underside of the pivot sleeve flows seamlessly into the back of the garment, creating an extra side panel. By removing the rear arm seam you can move your arm forward without restriction. It opens up a whole range of arm motion, move your arms forward or up and your shirt stays in place, cuff at the wrist, no cutting at the shoulders, your shirt tucked in properly. The extra side panel created by the pivot sleeve gives the shirt a strong form, the extra fluff found in most modern dress shirts is gone, this is how a shirt should fit.
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Empire Merino Tee
This is a tee-shirt fit for an emperor, so soft and well tailored you'd think you were wearing nothing at all. We took ultrafine merino from the Southern Alps of New Zealand and had it cut and sewn in New York City, just blocks from the Empire State building. It cools you in the summer, warms you in the winter and looks great all year round. We call it the Empire Merino Tee after our friends in Empire. Their approach might be different but we are doing the exact same thing, bringing the styles of the New York streets to the world of cycling.
(Please note that Mediums are on backorder and will ship mid-late July)
