Meet the New, CX42
It started back in 2020, when Taylor called Brandon with an idea, “If we could make our dream, technical EDC fabric, who would make it and what would it look like?” After a long discussion with ideas flung back and forth, the answer was simple; we’d hit up the lamination wizards at Dimension Polyant to pitch our idea and get their professional take on it.
We took some existing cutting-edge X-Pac technologies that we loved, beefed them up, twisted them, and came up with an idea based around a question: could we have a single piece of fabric that was both a proper face and a liner? For all intents and purposes eliminating the need for two separate fabrics and simplifying construction methods of the bag itself. We certainly could.
The first time we ever saw this fabric in person was when we visited Dimension Polyant in the Fall of ’21 after a New Haven, CT pizza tour with our friend Taylor North (Head of Technical Fabrics @ DP). It was hot off of the laminator and we loved what we saw.
We toyed around with this fabric over the next year, testing it, carefully revising and refining it based on real-world use, and making sure it was exactly what we wanted and needed. Ultimately, we came up with what we have today: CX42.
CX42 utilizes the face fabric of Dimension Polyant’s popular VX42, combines the extra 0* warp ply of their under-the-radar WX21, and slaps on a 150D recycled polyester hot orange backer fabric. Oh, and we upgraded the typical 840D polyester plys to a beefier 1000D for that extra “pop”.
To us, it’s perfect.
