Ten Thousand

Clothing · Sustainable Fashion

Ten Thousand sells men’s training apparel built for high-intensity workouts: shorts, liners, tees, tanks, hoodies, tights, socks and small-run accessories. Core items sit in a premium tier—most shorts $68-$78, shirts $54-$64—sold only through its own e-commerce site and mobile app; no wholesale or brick-and-mortar inventory keeps pricing fixed and margins high. The brand built its name on the “Session” short: a welded-seam, 7” liner optional short in recycled nylon-elastane that dries in under ten minutes. Product drops are released in numbered, limited batches with detailed lab and athlete field-test data published beside each garment, positioning Ten Thousand as a performance-engineering label rather than a fashion line. Customers are 25-40-year-old men who train CrossFit, HIIT, or tactical-style programs 4-6 days a week and treat gear as equipment, not clothing. They value durability metrics, minimal branding, and a buy-once mindset that favors fewer, better pieces over trend cycles. Competitors include VC-backed DTC training brands and premium athletic labels that use pro-athlete sponsorship; Ten Thousand differentiates by zero sponsorship spend, publishing abrasion and dry-time test results, and offering a lifetime repair credit—tactics that appeal to data-driven athletes who benchmark gear like they benchmark workouts.

Gear tested like your workouts, built to outlast them

• Recycled