Care & Materials

Caring for your pieces

These are technical fabrics. Treated well they hold their shape and colour for years; treated like a bath towel they lose their stretch in a season. The rules are short.

Wash

  • Machine wash cold, gentle cycle.
  • Turn pieces inside out.
  • Wash with like colours.
  • Remove bra cups first (Elle Bra, Sloane A-line Dress).
  • Close the zip before washing (Courtside Quarter Zip).

Don’t

  • No fabric softener. It coats the fibres and stops elastane recovering its shape. This is the most common way good activewear gets ruined.
  • No bleach, including colour-safe bleach.
  • No tumble dryer. Heat is what kills stretch.
  • No dry cleaning.
  • Don’t leave damp pieces balled up in a bag after a match — rinse and hang.

Dry

Dry flat, out of direct sunlight. Darker colours in particular will hold their depth longer out of the sun.

Iron

Only if you need to, on low heat. Avoid pressing pleats flat on the Calla Dress and Varsity Skirt, and iron around the embroidery on the Courtside Quarter Zip.

What things are made of

Piece Composition
Elle Bra 81% nylon, 19% spandex
Rally Tank 81% nylon, 19% spandex
Momentum Skirt 81% nylon, 19% spandex
Varsity Pleated Skirt Shell 81% nylon, 19% spandex · Lining 95% polyester, 5% spandex
Calla Pleated Dress — Powder Petal / Garnet Shell 81% nylon, 19% spandex · Lining 100% polyester
Calla Pleated Dress — White Shell 80% nylon, 20% spandex · Lining 100% polyester
Sloane A-line Dress 81% nylon, 19% spandex

Undershorts, built-in or separate, are made from the same fabric as the garment shell.

Always follow the sewn-in care label — it governs.

How the pieces are made

Our garments use flat-seam construction — 4-needle 6-thread and 3-needle 5-thread stitching — which lies flat against the skin and reduces friction over a long match. Seam edges are overlocked so they don’t fray, and finished with binding for a clean, smooth edge.