Green is the new Black: Natural feeling with Toasted Bamboo

Trendy, cozy, environmentally friendly – what else do you expect from your favorite shirt? Quick-drying, clean smelling and breathable properties? Then SUGOi’s Toasted Bamboo is exactly the right material for your active lifestyle! Toasted Bamboo blends the exceptional moisture wicking, antibacterial, absorbent properties of carbonized bamboo fibers with polyester to produce a first-class performance fabric with a strong renewable component. Even better, these properties come without the ecological price incurred by other anti-stink fibers such as silver. Besides pulling sweat away from

your body like a ninja of osmosis, Toasted Bamboo is soft as velvet and therefore the perfect material for casual or active layering, for soft sports, wellness and leisure time.

You will enjoy the loose-fitting, lightweight and cushy shirts while trekking or hiking, at Pilates or Yoga courses, on cycling or shopping tours or simply at home. Last but not least, the Bamboo line of tops for Spring 2008 combines fresh colors with clean design and many decent details. The result: You finally get a technical shirt that doesn’t look like one! A new shirt won’t save the planet, but with exceptional performance and feel, renewable source Toasted Bamboo garments will let you feel a little better while you do the things that make you feel great!

Why Bamboo? For a stout weed best known for antique fishing poles and feeding panda bears, bamboo is fast becoming a star in the world of green manufacturing. Why chop down hardwood forests when you can harvest the robust ‘boo to make beautiful floors? Hesitant to steal the Panda Bear’s favorite meal? No need for a bad conscience! As one of the world’s fastest growing plants, Bamboo grows up to one foot per day and can be harvested in an average five years as opposed to the 40 to 120 years it takes to grow most trees. Such quick growth means furthermore, it can sequester more carbon from the air than a slower growing species like, say, a rose bush.

Bamboo Backgrounder: - Moisture Wicking & Quick Drying
Carbon from Bamboo technology utilizes the highly porous nature of carbon to dramatically increase the surface area of the fabric. Consequently, there is a larger area to wick and disperse moisture from which also decreases drying time. - Odor Absorption. The highly porous nature of Carbon from Bamboo also acts as a net to trap odor-causing molecules, here they can quickly decompose without releasing any odor. - UV Protection. Lastly, the same porous structure of Carbon from Bamboo, along with its dark black color, work in tandem at a microscopic level to trap harmful UV rays.

Finally, the performance qualities of Carbon from Bamboo do not diminish with incremental laundering. Since the carbon is added to the polymer, it becomes part of the fabric instead of a coating that washes away over time. Carbon from Bamboo will maintain its performance qualities over the lifetime of the garment.