About us
One product, made properly
BY MANLY started with a simple frustration: every rashvest on the rack was either built for a surf comp or built to last one summer. We wanted the one in between — the one you actually reach for.
So we made a single rashvest and put everything into it. UPF 50+ that doesn't wash out, flatlock seams that sit flat under a wetsuit, recycled nylon with enough elastane to keep its shape through a full season of salt and sun.
We don't do drops, collections or seasonal colourways. One product means there's nowhere to hide — if it isn't right, there's nothing else on the rack to distract you. That keeps us honest.
Made for this coast
Designed around the water we grew up in — long days, hard sun, cold mornings.
Built to last
Recycled fabric and construction chosen so one vest outlives three cheap ones.
One thing, done right
No range to pad out. All of the attention goes into the only product we sell.
Megan
Founder, BY MANLY
Placeholder bio. A few lines on who the founder is, where the idea came from, and what they were doing before this — the swim, the surf, the long summers that made an ordinary rashvest feel worth fixing.
Placeholder bio. A second paragraph on why the business is built the way it is: one product, made properly, sold direct, with nothing in the range to hide behind.
“If we're only going to make one thing, it had better be the one you keep reaching for.”