What SANTINY makes, and who it is for

SANTINY makes clothing for women who spend their weekends outside, and has done since 2019. The range began with a skort, a skirt with a pair of shorts sewn in and the pockets on the shorts, and the idea in that first piece runs through everything on the six shelves now: the garment should carry what you carry, and it should end where you expect it to. A phone lies flat on the thigh in a skort pocket; a key sits at the back waistband of a running short where it cannot bounce; a swim skirt has a pocket for the locker.

What we make

Skorts are the shelf we are known for: pleated and scalloped tennis skirts for a court, plain golf skorts with two to six pockets, and two cargo skorts with a drawstring for a trail, from a 13.5-inch mini to a 20-inch knee length. Shorts are the second shelf: hiking cargo shorts at 5, 7 and 9 inches with a zip on most pockets, running shorts with a liner from 3 to 7, and bermudas that reach the knee. The swim shelf is a skirt or a short you can swim in and a rash guard to cover up with, every piece rated UPF 50+. For the cold there are fleece-lined flare leggings at five inseams and fleece-lined joggers, and for the rest of the week cotton sweatpants, tall joggers, faux-leather leggings, tanks, polos, tees and sweatshirts.

The number on the card is the second idea. A skort is sold at 14, 16, 18 and 20 inches as four different pieces and a hiking short at 5, 7 and 9, because the length is the first thing you choose and the colour is the second, and a photograph of a model whose height you do not know cannot tell you which one covers your knee. The length is measured on the garment; the pocket count is counted; the size run printed on a card is the run the piece is cut in at our last update.

Who it is for

You, if your Saturday is a court, a trail, a pool or a cold walk, and you are tired of two things: a pocket that is not there when you need it, and a hem that lands somewhere other than where the photograph put it. Both are fit problems, and both are why the cards here print numbers rather than adjectives. The waist and the hip are the two measurements that decide a letter on this site; the length is matched to a piece you already own; and a liner, where there is one, is named because it changes which letter you buy.

Most of the range is cut from XS to 2XL. The skorts and the tanks run to 3XL, the swim shorts to 4XL, one skort family starts at XXS, and the sweatpants and joggers come in tall lengths up to 36 inches with a 27-inch cut for shorter legs. Prices sit between ten and fifty dollars, and most of the range under thirty, which is the reason so many buyers own a skort in three colours and the reason we would rather you bought one first and the colours second.

What we will and will not say

A card describes a garment: how long it is, where the pockets are and which one zips, whether a liner is sewn in, what the label says about sun. What a piece does for you on a court is yours to judge, and the pages leave it to you. Where a page touches a rule or a body of advice, the fibre label, the care label, the flammability standard clothing is sold under, or what a UPF figure means, it is written under a named public source, read on the date printed beside it, and the figure is explained where it stops rather than rounded up.

The one verifiable thing we say about ourselves is the year, 2019. Everything else you might want to know about a piece is on its card, and how the figures on those cards are kept current is set out on how we update the catalogue.