Spring & Summer 2025

These Umps Shorts use a “Back Nep” fabric characterized by its neps (knotted fibers). The Back Nep fabric is made from a blend of dry-looking American and Australian cotton. When this raw cotton is carded, neps are deliberately introduced into the fiber by tweaking the machine. The resulting yarn is then woven on a rapier loom, which adds durability while retaining the effect of the neps. The design is based on classic baseball uniform pants, with a fly, belt loops, and pockets large enough to store spare baseballs like an umpire would.