Rapha is aware of that for a lot of girls, historically tight-fitting biking gear will not be at all times probably the most snug option to costume to journey. So to encourage extra girls to really feel assured on the bike, they developed a extra inclusive and sometimes instances extra modest, vary of heat climate efficiency girls’s biking gear. Sure, it consists of the first-ever cycling-specific hijab. However there’s additionally some extra widespread clothes gadgets seen in activewear off the bike. Like a brand new skort with a premium biking chamois (and cargo pocket) inside. And an prolonged lengthy jersey and padded lengthy pants that merely ship further protection.
Rapha ‘That is How We Journey‘ inclusive girls’s biking package
Rapha’s new girls’s biking clothes assortment is “designed by girls riders for girls riders”. The concept is to interrupt down obstacles that preserve some girls from getting on the bike within the first place.
Their new inclusive girls’s clothes marketing campaign is known as: ‘That is How We Journey‘. All of the basic jersey & shorts favorites are nonetheless there, simply now with extra choices for riders in search of a distinct option to present their on-the-bike fashion.
“For too lengthy, girls in biking have been ignored, undervalued and made to journey and put on package that limits self-expression. Rapha is set to assist change that narrative and strives to create biking attire that makes all riders really feel empowered, snug and assured.
Designed from the bottom up by an all-female crew, Rapha Girls is a brand new and expanded vary of ladies’s driving attire developed by means of years of analysis. The result’s a variety of all-new and distinctive silhouettes, together with the Girls’s Padded Skort, Girls’s Rapha Wind Gilet, Girls’s Rapha Jersey, Girls’s Rapha Wind Jacket, Girls’s Cropped Cargo Prime and Girls’s Common Cargo Shorts, to supply extra choices for self-expression to girls on the bike.”
This new Rapha Girls launch is a continuation of the British model’s “dedication to additional promote and develop girls’s biking”. We’ve seen a number of women-specific Rapha collaborations over time, from professional biking to style, to the playful spirit with Out of doors Voices.
“It was actually thrilling to tackle a challenge like this and work with an all-women crew to create a complete new assortment that permits girls to specific themselves and really feel snug and assured on the bike… We’re persevering with to work on tasks and improvements that open up the game for girls, so that is only the start!”
– Lauren Hunt, Rapha Girls’s Attire Designer
And once more on the finish of this summer season, the most important world annual girls’s biking occasion – the Rapha Girls’s 100 – will once more encourage girls all over the world to come back collectively to journey 100km on that Sunday. This 12 months would be the twelfth working of the Girls’s 100.
What’s new?
“The gathering consists of Rapha’s first vary of modest put on developed alongside London-based biking collective Cycle Sisters, an award-winning charity which conjures up and permits Muslim girls to cycle.” That features the headline-grabbing hijab. However there’s additionally a brand new Lengthy Jersey and Padded Driving Trousers that maximize rider efficiency and heat climate consolation. And but, they nonetheless ship the additional protection that may assist get extra girls on the bike.
The brand new Padded Skort and Cropped Zip Tank prime go the opposite course, choosing much less protection, however with fashion. They’re nearly giving girls extra choices for a way they appear when driving. As a result of not everybody at all times needs to really feel like they’re aspiring to be a street racer. Some cyclists simply wish to journey their bikes, and really feel good on the identical time.
2024 Rapha Girls’s Inclusive Biking Equipment
The brand new $120 / 115€ Rapha Girls’s Padded Skort is available in black or blue & 6 sizes (XXS-XL). It options Rapha’s award-winning girls’s chamois pad & a cargo pocket on the correct leg. The brand new $100 / 90€ Cropped Cargo Prime will get black or sea inexperienced and 6 sizes. It’s a short-fit tee, large on rear pocket storage. Not almost as crop-top quick because the full-zip $75 / 68€ Cropped Zip Tank with its zippered rear necessities pocket. Or the $90 / 80€ Half Zip Tank with extra cloth, so extra rear pocket storage.
Within the modest line-up, the brand new $45 / 40€ Rapha Girls’s Hijab is available in dusted blue, mushroom grey, or black. Absolutely protecting a rider’s head and neck, it’s created from a lightweight 100% recycled polyester with a mesh neck panel for max breathability. And naturally, it matches comfortably beneath a helmet. The $135 / 125€ Lengthy Jersey in 6 sizes and mushroom grey or black, is solely an extended reduce extending previous the hips. It encompasses a half zip, backed by a mesh panel for air flow with out exposing pores and skin. Then, new Rapha Girls’s Padded Driving Trousers are $240 / 222€ technical lengthy biking pants in 3 colours. With a barely unfastened however tailor-made on-the-bike match, they promise consolation, full vary of pedaling motion, and a little bit of water-repellant climate safety.
The most recent $120/ 115€ Rapha Girls’s Jersey is available in jeweled blue, sea inexperienced, or black. There’s additionally an up to date Wind Gilet (vest) for $135 / 125€ in jeweled blue or tan. And a brand new $190 / 170€ Wind Jacket in those self same two colours. Plus, there’s an up to date pair of Rapha Girls’s Common Cargo Shorts for $179 / 160€ in darkish navy blue or basic black.
All the new Rapha Girls’s assortment can be found now.
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