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What 350 g/m² actually means
Fabric weight without the marketing: what 350 g/m² (10.3 oz/yd²) fleece feels like, why the blend matters, and how to read the number on any hoodie.
The Essential Fleeced Hoodie is listed at 350 g/m². It’s the number we get asked about most, so here is what it means — and why every product page shows its own figure, from 240 g/m² tees to the 460 g/m² Subway Sweats.
The number
g/m² is grams per square metre: cut one square metre of the fabric and weigh it. 350 g/m² is 10.3 ounces per square yard in the other system. Heavier fabric has more fibre in the same area, which is what you feel as thickness, warmth and drape — a heavy hoodie hangs; a light one clings.
Weight isn’t the whole story (knit structure and finish matter too), but it’s the honest first thing to look for on a label, and the thing most often left off.
The blend
The Essential Fleeced Hoodie is 42% cotton, 53% polyester and 5% other fibres. Cotton gives the hand — the soft, dry feel against skin. Polyester holds the shape through washing and keeps the cuffs and hem from going slack. The result is a thick hand with a slight stretch: it moves, and it comes back.
What it feels like to wear
- It has weight on the shoulders. Cut oversized with a drop shoulder, the fabric falls rather than sticks.
- It’s warm without a liner. Autumn, winter, and a cold office in August.
- It keeps its lines. A heavy knit doesn’t twist or ride up the way a thin one does.
Small batches
We make in small runs, and heavy fleece is sensitive to temperature and materials during production — so runs vary slightly. That is normal, and we say so on every product page rather than pretending otherwise.
See the fleece in men’s hoodies and women’s hoodies, or as the Set.
