“...and by "hell" I mean 70+ flights a year for three years as I completed my doctoral work, flying across the country every month. Now, as a professor, and post-quarantine life, I've ditched suiting up for a straight daily costume which consists of a Roark Premium t-shirt and Layover shorts or pants. If Roark was accepting applications for a book geek such as I to be one of their brand ambassador's I'd be the first to sign up!
After having discovered Roark sometime around 2019, these are now my go-to, daily shirts. The fit, materials used, and astoundingly soft feel is perfection.
Sure, you could order one, but for what it's worth, I recommend ordering absolutely anything Roark offers.
For those of us dwelling among the adventurous while mixing with the herd, Roark has it's product line and customer service absolutely dialed in.”
“I’m 5’11” 165lbs and ordered a medium but ended up exchanging it for a large - a medium would have been fine as more of a going out tee but I wanted it for the beach and to wear it with board shorts so I went for the large, which was the perfect size (not too large) - the exchange was very quick and effective, and their customer service turned me into loyal customer. Ps: shirt is soft and looks exactly as pictured”
“The quality of the shirt is top notch, light but not cheap. Soft as a bundle of kittens. Truly green and beautiful...the only issue is I cant wear it more than once a week without getting the stink eye from my lady.”
“Roark is everything that embodies a life worth living. A pretty generous statement for a clothing brand, but Roark is so much more. The companies ethos and mission statement is a mirror of the relationship I share with my brothers. Once a year, my childhood friends and I make a annual stand against the drudgery of everyday life by planning what we call “the Trip”. The Trip is a unifying goal each of my friends long for every year. People have a way of letting life get in the way of their friendships, I refuse. This idea was born over a simple conversation and has manifested into us hiking mountains and white water rafting in the Tennessee hills, snow boarding through unsolvent powder in the high reaches of Copper Mountain and battling monsters on a rickety old boat in the depths of the gulf. As the years pass, the trips impact looms larger yet simultaneously more difficult to capture. Through marriage, corporate jobs, kids and pandemics, life begins to weigh down the escape in my mind. But then I receive a Roark guidebook, the Roark crew traveling the far reaches of the unknown with a crew of nomads, wanderers and storytellers, shoots a adrenaline shot through my veins and has me yanking at the noose we call a tie while sending out the signal to my brothers reinvigorated with ideas of this years Trip and what adventures we will stumble upon. I drape these bones in Roark’s clothing around the house as well as on every trip, the durability and comfortability is why it has quickly overtaken my entire wardrobe. The graphic T’s with every wear have me subconsciously spinning the wheels in my mind of the prospects of locations that will host the Trip. But the reason I wear and represent Roark the most, is it plays a motivational role of keeping me who I am. The company inspires and encourages a wandering soul like my own. Following this brand through travel guides, graphic Tees, pictures and stories, has played a part however big or small, to remind me to never stop leaving. We are only afforded one life, one planet, one soul and I would be remised if I didn’t use them. Come Hell or Highwater, every year, I’m making the Trip and Roark plays a prominent role in reminding me to never stop wandering.”
