An old country-club wardrobe, now with a court and training line cut from Hillcloth, a fabric of our own. Every piece washes at home and looks pressed the next morning. Nothing needs dry cleaning.
Eight colours taken from the clubhouse: blazer navy, tennis whites, the lawn, saddle leather and the crest's gold thread.
Activewear usually looks like activewear. Hillcloth is built to look like clubhouse cloth and work like training gear. It is made for Athelmont alone.
Two fabrics knitted as one. A matte merino face that reads as heritage cloth from across a court, and a technical back that moves sweat and dries fast.
Hillcloth is in development. Its make-up and performance will be confirmed by laboratory tests before any piece goes on sale.
Five details, all drawn from Athel Hill, that let someone recognise the clothes with no logo in sight. Every piece carries at least two of them.
Navy 3 mm · claret 2 mm · navy 3 mm · 8 mm in all
Our tipping, always in this order and these widths. At 8 mm it stays under the 1 cm limit for colour on white at the strictest grass-court clubs, so it can go on every Court White piece.
Polo collars and cuffs · tee neck rib · skort and short hems · inside waistbands
Side rises 4 cm in one soft curve · back 3 cm longer than front
The hem of every top rises at the side seam like the shoulder of a hill. Untucked, it reads as Athelmont from across a court. Tucked, the longer back stays in through a serve.
Polos · crew · sun hoodie · half-zip · sleeveless polo
Self-colour jacquard · 8 mm grid · crosslines rise and fall 2 mm over 40 mm
A check knitted into Hillcloth in the garment's own colour. The cross lines roll like hills. From a distance the cloth looks plain; at a handshake it is clearly ours.
Court Polo · Hillcloth Half-Zip · Court Zip Jacket · Rally Crew
Contour lines of one hill · cream on navy, navy on cream
A map of Athel Hill printed where only the wearer looks: jacket linings, pocket bags, skort liners, inner waistbands. Open the jacket and the hill is there.
Warm-up and quilted linings · all pocket bags · liners · tissue and boxes
7 mm grosgrain loop in the Athel Stripe · 25 mm long
A hanging loop at the inside back neck of every top and inside the back waistband of every bottom. It holds the garment on a locker hook and shows the stripe when you hang it up.
Every piece in the collection
Every top has the Stripe Tab and the Hill Hem. Every Hillcloth piece adds Hill Check. Every lined or pocketed piece adds the Contour. Court pieces add the Athel Stripe at the collar or hem.
Two rules that keep this quiet. Nothing here is a logo, and none of it is loud: the stripe stays under a centimetre, the check is self-colour, and the contour lives inside. The only mark on the outside is still the small tonal A.
What players actually wear in each racket sport, and the rules we drew from it for the Court line.
| Sport | What players wear | House rules to pass | What we designed |
|---|---|---|---|
| TennisGrass, clay, hard | Polos and crew tees, 7 in shorts, skirts and dresses. Balls carried in a pocket or under the skirt. | Many clubs want tops 90% white and white socks. Grass at the strictest clubs: almost entirely white, colour trim under 1 cm, off-white not accepted. | Court White pieces with trims kept under 1 cm, ball pockets that hold two balls |
| Pickleball24.3 million US players | Skorts lead women's bottoms; sleeveless tops, polos, long-sleeve sun tops, shorts with a ball pocket. Outfits double as brunch clothes. | Usually none. Most play outdoors in full sun. | Sun hoodie with thumbholes, skort with liner pockets, polo that leaves the court for lunch |
| PadelGlass and turf courts | Light wicking shorts and tops, close but not tight. Layers in cold weather. | Non-marking, herringbone-soled shoes. | Trim cuts with nothing loose to catch a racket, warm-up layer |
| Platform tennisOutdoor, in winter | Layers, beanies, thin gloves under floodlights in the cold. | Rubber-soled court shoes; dress more casual than tennis. | Quilted warm-up jacket that keeps the arms free |
| Squash, badmintonIndoor | Light tees and shorts. We found little reliable dress guidance beyond the shoes. | Non-marking soles indoors. | Covered by the crew tee and Baseline short |
Sources: SFIA 2026 pickleball report; club dress codes published by Kooyong and Roehampton; reporting on the Wimbledon clothing rule; LTA padel equipment guide; retailer sales data and buying guides for skort share and pocket complaints. Sun protection (UPF 50+) is a target to be tested.
Golf is where club dress codes are strictest. We read the published rules of private clubs and cut the Golf line to pass them, then made it good enough for the clubhouse after.
| What clubs ask | Typical rule | How we cut it |
|---|---|---|
| Men's shorts | Bermuda length, about 1 in above the knee | Course Short with a 9 in inseam, so it lands at the rule on most heights |
| Women's skirts and skorts | No shorter than mid-thigh, or no more than 4 in above the knee | Fairway Skort at 18 in, just above the knee, liner shorts with pockets |
| Shirts | Men: collared and tucked in. Women: a collar or sleeves | Every golf top has a collar or sleeve, and the Hill Hem's longer back stays tucked through the swing |
| Fabrics | No denim on the course | Hillcloth Twill and Club Merino only |
| Pockets | No cargo pockets | Pockets kept flat and hidden: a zipped coin pocket for a ball marker, a zipped back pocket for a phone |
| Layers | Leggings allowed under a skirt or skort at some clubs | The Club Legging pairs under the Fairway Skort for cold mornings |
Rules vary club to club; these are the common ones in published private-club dress codes. The gripper, marker pocket and quiet-fabric choices are our design decisions, not research findings.
The Pro tier: complete outfits for match days, long runs and hard sessions. Same club look, built for heat, sweat, wind and water.
Performance figures (UPF, water repellency, chlorine resistance, drying speed) are targets to prove in lab tests before they go on any label. Every Pro piece has a size chart: tap "Size chart" under it, or pick it from the Pro group in Measurements.
Five house fabrics carry the line, each chosen because it survives home washing. Compositions are proposals to confirm with a mill.
60% long-staple cotton (combed, compact-spun) · 37% recycled polyester · 3% elastane · 210 g/m² · pre-shrunk
The cotton face looks like a classic tennis polo. Polyester in the yarn keeps the collar flat and the shape true after washing.
Machine wash 30°C · tumble dry low · no ironing · do not dry clean
60% long-staple cotton · 37% recycled polyester · 3% elastane · 125 g/m² · no resin finish
Gets its smoothness from the polyester in the yarn rather than a chemical non-iron coating, which wears off after a season of washes.
Machine wash 30°C · tumble dry low, hang straight away · no ironing · do not dry clean
64% recycled polyester · 33% wool · 3% elastane · 250 g/m² · crease recovery required
Reads as a pressed wool trouser. The polyester holds the crease and lets creases from sitting drop out on a hanger.
Machine wash 30°C gentle · line dry · cool iron only if wanted · do not dry clean
100% extra-fine merino · 18.5 micron · 2/48 Nm tightly spun 2-ply · shrink-resist treated · machine-wash approval targeted
Warm in an air-conditioned office, cool outdoors, and does not hold odour, so it needs washing less often.
Machine wash wool cycle 30°C · dry flat · no tumble dry · do not dry clean
58% recycled polyester · 36% lyocell · 6% elastane · double knit 320 g/m²
Holds a blazer's shape, feels like a sweatshirt and packs flat. Lyocell drapes and lets creases fall out overnight. It replaces the viscose ponte, which shrinks in the wash.
Machine wash 30°C gentle · line dry on a hanger · do not dry clean
These are design targets. A mill or test lab has to confirm them before any care label claims them.
Prices are proposed retail.
The same pieces cover a business-casual Monday, a Saturday at the club and a travel day.
Finished garment measurements for every size, graded from the sample size (shaded). Half measurements are taken flat, side to side.
Body charts are Athelmont working charts for the 40–59 customer, regraded on 8 November 2026 to CDC NHANES August 2021–August 2023 medians and graded in ASTM steps. Trousers and shorts run 32–46 in waist sizes. Garment measurements are working targets from those charts plus ease; they will move at the fit sample, tested on real size L bodies.
The small things that make it read as Athelmont from across a room.
Concept sketches for direction only, not production tech packs. Fabric specs, test targets, measurements and prices are proposals. Outfit and product photographs are AI-generated concept images, not real samples or real people.