Upcycled Coconut Boardshorts
Boardshorts: Coconuts, Repurposed for Speed
Boardshorts made from coconuts. Not a marketing bit, an actual supply chain: our Cocotex fabric upcycles discarded coconut husk fiber into a four-way stretch shell that dries before your espresso does. These are mens boardshorts for people who surf, with welded seams, zero-rash construction, and enough give to survive a Supertubos closeout with dignity intact.
The eco credentials are real. So is the performance. Wear them from the first 18°C morning in May until the Atlantic takes summer back, then concede gracefully to walkshorts.
How to Choose Boardshorts
Three decisions: length, fit, fabric. Length is taste. Shorter rides above the knee and frees your legs for snappy beachbreak surfing at La Graviere; longer covers more thigh and more opinions. Fit should be snug at the waist with no elastic digging in when you duck dive. Fabric is where we get insufferable, because ours is made from coconuts. Cocotex fiber, upcycled from husks that would otherwise be landfill, woven into a quick-dry four-way stretch shell with a water-repellent finish. Eco construction that you stop thinking about the moment you paddle out, which is the point.
What Is in the Range
Performance mens boardshorts across multiple lengths, solids and prints, all built on the upcycled coconut platform. Fixed waists, drawcord closures, welded or triple-stitched seams depending on the model, and a stash pocket that drains. If you want something that doubles as land wear, that is the hybrid shorts department. These are for the water.
Why Vissla
We are a surf company that decided eco fabric should not surf worse than the petroleum kind. Cocotex was the answer. It dries fast, stretches everywhere, and gives a second life to agricultural waste, and the boardshorts it produces have been holding up in European beachbreaks for years now. The Mediterranean crowd buys them for the story. The Atlantic crowd buys them again because they work.
Coconuts, it turns out, were the technology all along.
