Long Sleeve Tees
Long Sleeve Tees: Nine Months of Almost Summer
Europe is a long-sleeve continent. The morning offshore at Hossegor is cold in August, the Irish summer is a rumor, and the North Sea does not do warm evenings at all.
Long sleeve tees cover the gap between tee weather and jacket weather, which on this coastline is roughly nine months. Same soft cotton as our short sleeves, same artwork, more fabric between you and the wind. Simple arithmetic, really.
How to Choose a Long Sleeve Tee
The questions are weight and intent. A lighter long sleeve is sun cover and bar wear, the thing you pull on after a September surf at Peniche while the air is still pretending to be warm. A midweight is a true shoulder-season layer that works alone in October and under a jacket from November on. Fit follows the same rules as any tee: shoulder seams on the shoulders, body relaxed but not billowing, sleeves that end at the wrist rather than the knuckle.
What Is in the Range
Long sleeve surf tees in plains and prints, with chest and sleeve graphics from the Vissla art department, in cottons that hold their shape through the wash. Most keep the details simple and let the fabric do the arguing. The palette runs coastal: off-whites, faded blues, blacks, and the occasional print that earns its place.
Why Vissla
We surf the same cold-shouldered coastlines you do, from Ireland to the Canaries, and the long sleeve tee is what we actually live in between sessions. So it is built like a staple, not a novelty: real fabric weight, honest stitching, prints that survive both fashion and friction. It is the most European garment we make, in the sense that it is dressed for weather that cannot make up its mind.
Sleeves: the original wind protection. Still undefeated.
