33 — The tee.

A tee at 400gsm is a harder argument than a hoodie at 400gsm. The hoodie has a reason — warmth, structure, the hood as a functional element. The tee has none of that. It is a short-sleeved garment. The weight has to justify itself through the fabric alone, with nothing else to point to.

Most brands do not attempt it. The standard heavyweight tee sits at 220–260gsm — dense enough to feel substantial, light enough to avoid the question of why. We went further because the question is the point. If you are going to make a tee, make it from something that has a reason to exist at the weight it is.

The peplos. is 100% ring-spun cotton jersey, preshrunk and garment-dyed in the same process as the aegis. and the thorax. The dye settles into the jersey differently than it does into loop-back fleece — more evenly across the face, with the tonal variation concentrated at the seams and hem. In stone, this produces a colourway that reads as warm and complex rather than flat. It does not look like a basic tee. It looks like a considered one.

The silhouette is oversized with a dropped shoulder — the same design logic as the rest of the formation. At this weight, an oversized tee does not collapse or bunch. The fabric mass holds the shape. The dropped shoulder means the sleeve falls correctly without pulling across the back. These are not aesthetic decisions made in isolation. They are construction decisions that the weight of the fabric makes possible.

We made the peplos. because the formation needed a tee that belonged to the same conversation as the hoodie and the sweatshirt. Not a lighter version of the same idea. The same idea, in a different construction. Worn alone in July or under the aegis. in October, it performs the same function — a piece built from something real, at a weight that has a reason.

The argument justifies itself on contact.