Not every season on the Gulf calls for the same shirt. One number to go by — four, five or six — so you dress for the year instead of guessing at it.
Know your weight. Choose your day.
The chart
Every weight owns a stretch of the calendar. The band below is the year itself — cool at both ends, white-hot through the middle, gold on the way in and out. Your weight is whatever the year is doing above it.
Light shows up twice — spring and fall. That is not a mistake. It is the one you reach for on both ends of the year.
The scale
One number, and it is the only number we ask you to learn. Lower is airier. Higher has more to it. There is no wrong end of this scale — there is only the season you are dressing for.
Four, five and six name the tiers. The cloth they are cut from weighs 4.5, 5.3 and 6.0 — the same way a 4/3 wetsuit is a system and not a caliper reading. We print both, so you always know exactly what you are buying.
The second number
Two different questions, and they do not answer each other. Weight tells you when to wear it. UPF tells you how long you can stay out in it. Our UV Active pieces carry both.
When do I wear this?
Four, five or six. The season picks the number, and the number picks the shirt. This is the one you use every morning.
How long can I stay out?
A rated fabric — measured, not claimed. UPF 50 blocks 98% of what comes down. On our UV Active long sleeves that is the whole point of the piece.
UPF 50 — 98% blocked
Why it is built this way
A design is never assigned to a weight here. Every one of them runs the whole ladder, which means the piece you like is already waiting in the weight your year calls for. Pick the art first. Pick the season second.
Tees and Hoodies both carry a Solar Weight tier. A Hoodie runs its own numbers — a 4 oz Hoodie and a 4 oz tee are not the same garment — but the three names mean the same three jobs on every piece we make. The name is the promise. The number belongs to the garment.
Summer
SOLSHOCK Coast Concierge
