TOGS by Hadley Hammer and Kellyn Wilson

Welcome to TOGS! Here we explore the culture of fashion in the outdoors, test clothing and gear, poke at trends, and bring you interesting stories from people who sport in style. Hello, good readers of TOGS. North again. Last October, Kellyn published a groundbreaking letter on the state of gorpcore. In it, she took the pulse on a trend that many believed to have flatlined. Her diagnosis?

Hello, readers. North again. As you well know, we here at TOGS are on a mission to bring style to the outdoors and function to fashion. “From mountain peaks to fashion weeks” is how Hadley and Kellyn defined this newsletter’s purview when they started it over two years ago, and our commitment to this landscape-spanning style project remains as eager and enthusiastic as ever.

Welcome to TOGS! Here we explore the culture of fashion in the outdoors, test clothing and gear, poke at trends, and bring you interesting stories from people who sport in style. Hello readers! After the success of our “How to style a sweater” letter back in April, we’re back again with another styling “How to,” this time giving you some ideas on how you might incorporate a technical top into your wardrobe.

Welcome to TOGS! Here we explore the culture of fashion in the outdoors, test clothing and gear, poke at trends, and bring you interesting stories like the one you’re about to read today. We are a reader-supported publication, so consider becoming a subscriber below to receive all of our letters and support our work. Frank, Grace and Me, A Self-Portrait, 2026 by Charlotte Wales Dear Peanut, I’ve unfolded and folded your tiny clothes a dozen times now.

Essays History of gingham, an interview with SENIQ co-founder, Valentina Thompson, and what's in the news Welcome to TOGS! Here we explore the culture of fashion in the outdoors, test clothing and gear, poke at trends, and bring you interesting stories like the one you’re about to read today. We are a reader supported publication, so consider becoming a subscriber below to receive our all of our letters and support our work Hello readers! Kellyn here.

Hi there, TOGS. Welcome back to The Mudroom, where we offer curated recommendations on what togs to wear for mountain sports and lifestyle. Up this week we have hiking shorts, which is a capacious category for us here at TOGS. In the guide below, you’ll find shorts that are polyester, nylon, regular cotton, waxed cotton, perforated, meshy, sturdy, sheer and more. Enjoy!

Outfitted Taking style tips from a surrealist parlor game, plus some news. Greetings, good readers of TOGS. North here. We’ve got a fun letter full of style ideas + inspo this week, but first—extra, extra, read all about it!—we’ve got some news you can use, fresh from the world of the fashion + function. First off!: Kellyn teamed up with Seniq to collaborate on The Strange Garden, the brand’s first-ever original print collection.

Hello TOGS readers! Kellyn here. We’re all thinking it: could 2026 get any weirder? Well, turns out it can. Gauchos are back. The one article of clothing that I thought was banished to purgatory of the early aughts has returned on the wings of zellenials, and you know what? They’re kinda chic. And now I find myself sitting with 10 tabs open on Chrome, each with cart of varying inseams to compare. How did we get here?? What are we doing?

Hello, Toggsers! Hadley, Kellyn, and North here, knocking on your door to deliver May’s Soupe du Jour, our monthly round-up of what we’ve been reading, cooking, wearing, and more. As always, we’d love to see any of your own finds, obsessions, or recommendations in the comments section.

Hi Toggsers, Hadley here, checking in from week 33 of pregnancy! I can’t really believe I’m in my 8th month of carrying sweet Peanut around in my belly. We are living in the world of unknowns—we don’t know when the baby will arrive, if it will be a boy or a girl, what it will feel like to give birth, or if we have everything we need. But what I do know is that I have an inconceivable amount of love for this thing that’s been sitting under my heart for the last 8 months.