Athleisure is the name given to a range of sportswear that is worn from the gym to the coffee shop or from work to workout. The CEO of Nike, Marc Parker, says ‘leggings are the new denim’ as leggings sales eat into the jeans market. Upmarket sports retailer JD put their 21% increase down to [...]
Alison is a physio and palates instructor in her day job and running fanatic the rest of the time. She road tested the new Zeon GYM athleisure leggings through a week at work, running and social. ‘These are bril for active use. The deep drop from waistband to crotch mean they don’t ride down even [...]
Tom leads a hugely busy life combining his work as an NHS physio at St Marks Hospital, Maidenhead with training to realise his dream of representing Great Britain at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Although, recently, he’s had to sacrifice work to train full in an effort to become the fastest under 23 sculler in the [...]
It’s tough sourcing high quality reliable suppliers in the modern ‘globalised’ world. In the good old days the UK textile industry was based around Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Leicester and Birmingham. Most suppliers were within a few hours drive away. As UK manufacturing fell away from the mid 1990’s, so it became increasingly hard to find [...]
Burton Swimming Club has made giant strides under the joint head coach team of Simon and Ian since it suffered a major setback 5 years ago when the local pool closed for refurbishment. While the Local Authority, Councillors and Local MP saw the importance of swimming for the young people in the town and helped [...]
Our factory will close for Chinese New Year on 23rd January and reopen 8th February. I want wish our workers at the factory a Happy Chinese New Year - or in Cantonese, Hey Fat Choy. 2017, the year of the Rooster, let’s hope it is a good one. The actual day falls on Saturday [...]