Travel broadens the waist as well as the mind. Eventually every world traveller arrives at a thorough appreciation of elasticated waistbands, four-way stretch jackets, reinforced seat panels, crease resistance and moisture control.
The more and longer you travel, the more you learn to value things like three – layer barricades and the unrestricted freedom of movement. Without chafing.
Be proud of your stretch bags. Discover the wonderful world of toggings. Trust in Rohan on your travels. I am very proud of my classic, crease-resistant bags.
Milton Keynes is the Milan of “forgiving” warm weather overwear.
Founded in Skipton in west Yorkshire by Sarah and research chemist Paul Howcroft, Rohan became the first UK company to produce mountain salopettes and the first to name a range of clothes after the license plate of the owner’s car: OLF10.
Rohan now makes performance travel linen, fleeces, convertible trousers, multi-pocketed shirts, cropped jeans, Foreign Legion-esque cowl caps, Pioneer jackets and waterproofs made from the pioneering fabric technology.
From Gregory and Eagle Creek waterproof storage solutions (backpacks), Thule carry-on spinners, high-wicking clobber, dual palm hand-warmers, mountain whistles (excellent for attracting bar staff at busy airports and Summit socks to Expedition trousers, rime insulated gilets, UV protective, insect-repelling shirts, EOS jackets, Komondor fleeces and Brecons, Rohan is THE name in specialist travel clothing.
You can’t call yourself a traveller if you can’t boast an active waist and have at least one Rohan garment. For many of a certain age, there is no better feeling than walking around in trousers packed full of the latest technology.
For many years now, Rohan has been providing my wife and me with dynamic moisture control and reinforced our knees and behinds, as well as satisfying all our anti-wrinkle needs.
We took up walking later than we should have when it became clear to both of us that we couldn’t get upstairs without supplementary oxygen.
It was a simple choice between infarction, exercise or a bungalow.
Our doctor advised us to become walkers when we admitted that walking from the surgery’s waiting area to his consulting room had given us both a stitch.
When he suggested we should go and get sorted out by Rohan, we thought he was referring us to a cardiologist. But then realised he was talking about the fresh air and toggings (hiking pants).
We do like to ramble. And we do like to wrap up and are at an age when we don’t underrate flex fabric. Rohan gives you the look you are after, however old you are or feel.
The intrepid rambler is a classic look and the unisex foul winter weather look a desirable one. The popular rugged outdoor adventurer image is multi-functional. It goes down just as well along the high street as at high altitudes.
As a man, during the winter and bad weather, you want clothing that keeps out the cold and protects you from questions about your virility. A woman wants to give the impression that she has led expeditions to the Himalayas and Patagonia. Rather than just to Tesco’s.
Rohans are just the thing too for cruises.
The Rohan wardrobe is just as warm and cool in Lakadh as it is in Iceland. A man or woman who dresses like they can overcome extreme wind chill is someone to be admired and respected.
No man will sacrifice mobility for bulk. Every man knows he is judged by his base layer. Every man know how easily he can be emasculated by his choice of salopettes.
A man needs clothing that matches or gives the impression of a wild weather complexion and highly active mountaineer skin tone. Something you can wear crossing Iceland by foot just as crossing London by bus. He must be as confident in his outer shell as his thermal and largely wind-resistant boxers.
We all want to be mistaken for a Mountain Man or Mountain person.
Rohan is a one-stop shop for the outdoorsperson and world traveller. It now offers miscellaneous must-have accessories like shoe sacks, document and map bags, digital luggage scales, pan- continental adaptors, insulated bottles, backpacks, rucksacks, insect-repelling fabrics, reindeer fur Thermacores, merino wash, titanium picnic cutlery, necktubes, neck wallets and medical kits.
As well as “forgiving” polar expedition legwear, in the Tundra or on an Antarctica cruise you don’t want your clothes to be too tight or too slouchy.
Pull on a pair of grey rock hiking toggings, all-terrain, all-weather sack or flint green over-trousers, grab those Fizan walking poles and get into that Mistral waterproof jacket.
Rohan offers the summit of all-weather style. On land and at sea. In Rohan, a man and a woman is in his or her element.
For more information on Rohan’s range of outdoor and travel clothing, please visit: www.rohan.co.uk.
Author Bio:
Kevin Pilley is a former professional cricketer and chief staff writer of PUNCH magazine. His humour, travel, food and drink work appear worldwide, and he has been published in over 800 titles.
Photographs courtesy of Rohan
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