Style BOARDSHORTS: IN THE BEGINNING Outrigger Canoe Club Men’s swimwear, in fact swimwear in general, has a comparatively short history dating back not much farther than 150 years. B...
Product THE PROCESS: DIGITAL PRINTING - BRITISH, AND THE BEST Print is paramount here at Riz and so in this, the second in our series of articles that looks at the process behind making your swim shorts, we wi...
Escape PLASTIC IN PARADISE: A MALDIVES FIELD REPORT The Maldives is an archipelago with a true Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde image: on the one side is the honeymoon standard of thatched huts on stilts buil...
Collaborations BEHIND THE PRINT: ENDANGERED FISH Summer 2017 saw us re-release a popular past print, the Endangered Fish illustration, on new short styles the Braunton and the Buckler. We did this...
Product THE PROCESS: PRODUCED IN PORTUGAL Many (in fact most) people have little or no idea where and how the clothes that they wear were made, and by whom. We believe that these things are...
Style THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT: SELECTING THE RIGHT LENGTH SHORTS FOR YOU Men’s shorts are getting shorter, and thank goodness! Gone are the days of baggy, below the knee boardshorts and instead we’re thrilled to see more...
Environment AN INTERVIEW WITH ALI #BOTTLESTOBOARDSHORTS Recycling the waste plastic bottles that litter our beaches and oceans into material to turn into our swim shorts is an incredibly rewarding missio...
Environment PROJECT: BOTTLES TO BOARDSHORTS At the core of everything we do here at Riz is a desire to fight the scourge of plastic pollution that blights our oceans. Whether that involves d...
Style THE SUN AND YOUR SKIN We love to feel the sun’s warming rays on our skin. Sunshine has been proven to lift mood by boosting the body’s levels of serotonin, increase ener...
Escape YOU ARE THE SEA: AN INTERVIEW WITH FRANCO Our sustainable swim shorts are worn all over the world by so many interesting individuals, some of whom we work with to produce images of our shor...
Product No More Plastic: Our Recycled Paper Packaging They are one of those things that go unnoticed, unmentioned and are generally accepted. Many people don’t even know they exist, but we’d guess that...