How we work
ApiWears is a specification and quality business. We work with three manufacturers, set the spec, buy the batch, and check it ourselves before any of it reaches a listing. We say that plainly because the alternative - pretending we hand-stitch every seam - is the kind of story that falls apart the first time a customer asks a direct question.
Run on samples pulled from every incoming batch, not once on a golden sample. A batch that fails any check goes back.
A calibrated probe is pushed through mesh, seams and cuffs at six points under 40 mm of compression. Anything that reaches the inner face is a fail.
6 points · 40 mm
Cut samples are weighed and measured against the spec we ordered. A batch that arrives 15% under weight is a different fabric, whatever the invoice says.
±5% of spec
Elastics go through 50 stretch cycles and zips through 1,000 open-close cycles. Cuffs must hold 90% of original tension.
1,000 cycles
Still-air bench test at 24 °C comparing the ventilated construction against single-layer cotton, so the comfort claim has a number behind it.
vs cotton baseline
Materials
No proprietary fabric names. The materials are ordinary and well understood - what matters is the weight, the weave and the way they are put together.
Our gear is manufactured to our specification by three partner factories. We name the materials and publish the measurements. We don't claim to make it ourselves, and we don't dress up sourcing as craft.
A suit that doesn't fit doesn't protect - the fabric presses to the skin and the sting lands. That's why the size finder sits on every product page and the first size swap is always free.
The single most replaced part is the veil, so we sell it separately for every suit rather than making you buy a new one. Zips and elastics are specified to outlast the fabric.
