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Linen sauna shorts with a hidden pocket for a cold pack. 5" inseam, cotton liner, sizes S to XL.
$68 with two cold packs. $54 without. First-batch prices. No payment today.
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The pack sits behind fabric. Never put a frozen pack directly on bare skin. If you go numb, take it out. Heat isn't for everyone. Leave when you want to.
Received. You'll hear from us when there's something real to report.
Put a pack in the freezer. This is the hardest part, and you'll forget at least once.
Carry it in the bag. The Lunch Pail is a wool felt sleeve made for this. It's optional, like lunch.
Change, and leave the gym kit behind. Slide the pack into the pocket on the liner. Then sit down, on a towel, on the job.
Leave when you want. Nobody's keeping time, and there's no medal. Pack back in the freezer, shorts in the wash.
The pack sits behind fabric. Never put a frozen pack directly on bare skin. If you go numb, take it out. Heat isn't for everyone. Leave when you want to.
All of this is the plan. Nothing is final until a prototype has been sewn and sat in.
| Cut | Running short, 5" inseam, side splits at the hem |
|---|---|
| Sizes | S, M, L, XL (waist 29 / 32 / 35 / 38, hip 37 / 40 / 43 / 46) |
| Shell | Washed linen, about 130 to 200 g/m² |
| Waistband | 1.25" covered elastic plus cotton drawcord |
| Liner | Cotton, brief-style |
| Front of the liner, hidden. Outside in: cotton face, wool felt, reflective film. The insulation faces away from your body. | |
| Cold pack | Soft and freezable, about 4.5" x 4". Type not chosen yet. |
| Details | Natural linen, oxide drawcord, stitched 200° at the hem |
| Wash care | Planned: pack out first, wash cold with like colors, hang dry. Linen wrinkles. The Local considers that seniority. |
| In the box | Full Benefits: the short and two cold packs. Basic Coverage: the short. Also planned for both: a bag with a patch on it and a printed bench card of the Bylaws. Add-ons as ordered. |
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We make no claim about what this does for you. It's clothing. Cooling is untested. One informal experiment by Alex: a bare cold pack, in a room at about 200°, warm in about 15 minutes. The goal for the pocket is a full round of about 15 to 20 minutes. We test next and post it, bad news included.
You are sitting in a very hot closet with strangers, on purpose. That ship has sailed. These are designed to read as ordinary shorts from three feet away, and nobody has to know what's in the pocket. That's a goal until the prototype is on a body in a room. When it is, we'll post the picture, flattering or not.
It's free and it's a perfectly good idea, right up until you stand up. What you're paying for is a pocket: it stays put, it stays hidden, and the goal is that nothing drips on the bench. If the towel works for you, the Local has no quarrel with the towel.
You can. They've already done legs, a bus seat and the floor of your car. Most gym shorts are polyester. Ours are a linen shell and a cotton liner against your skin, and they only go to one place, so they stay clean. Per Article VII, the gym kit stays in your locker. It has done enough.
We don't know yet. Alex once took a bare cold pack into a hot room, informally, and it went warm in about 15 minutes at about 200°. That's the problem, and the wool felt and reflective film are the plan. The goal is a full round of about 15 to 20 minutes. It's a goal. We test next and publish what happens, including if it doesn't.
A bench is a shared workplace. The pack lives inside a pocket inside a short, so the goal is no drips on it, which we'll confirm in testing. Either way, sit on a towel. All of you, on the towel. That one isn't a joke and it's in the bylaws.
You'd rather know. One pattern exists. Everything after that is on this card, and when a job gets done we'll stamp it.
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| Job | Status |
|---|---|
| Pattern drafted | Done |
| First prototype | Next |
| Cold test | Next |
| Fit test | Next |
| Factory quote | Not started |
| Deposits open | Not started |
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