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Freckled model in a cream sherpa hoodie with a maroon hood, snow falling

Winter

Model in a black fleece and gray beanie at golden hour

Summer

About

High-tech soft goods since 1987

We make handmade craft clothing from the finest materials we can find. We only use Polartec fleece because it's the best. We're always evolving, because it's all about the fabric.

Every item is made by hand and no two are the same, just like the people who wear them. Some folks call it wearable folk art. We call it adventure loungewear.

Est. 1987
Breckenridge, CO
Polartec^® fleece
One of one

Featured in Polartec's Meet the Makers

The cut

The workshop: a long cutting table with pattern pieces and stacks of fleece, surfboards and a Rad Rags banner on the wall — The workshop

A big pile of fleece rolls in every color, with bolts of fabric and a framed Breckenridge poster behind — The fabric

A cutting machine's blade going down through a tall stack of colorful fleece layers — The layers

Cut fleece and printed fabric pieces with scissors on a cutting table — The pieces

Sewing a yellow Rad Rags label onto mustard fleece next to a paisley panel — The label

The winter collection

Winter

For powder days and everything after.

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Friends running with green sleds through blowing snow

Model in green mirrored goggles and a cream sherpa hoodie with maroon sleeves, hair blowing in the snow

Two friends in navy fleece smiling cheek to cheek in the snow

Model in a red-orange fleece hoodie with snowy mountains behind

Model in a black fleece hugging a chocolate lab beside a red truck

Smiling model in a maroon and navy color-block hoodie holding a ski

Three friends in fleece hoodies standing in fresh snow under pine trees

Smiling model in a cream sherpa pullover with black sleeves

Smiling model in an oatmeal sherpa pullover in a snowy forest

Model in a green print fleece pulling up the hood, mirrored goggles on

Smiling model in a navy fleece with black sleeves among snowy trees

Smiling model in a cream and olive sherpa hoodie sitting in the snow

Two friends in cream and maroon fleece waving in the snow

Two friends in cream and black fleece with a chocolate lab in the snow

Model in a navy and cream fleece petting a chocolate lab

Two friends carrying green sleds up a snowy valley

Smiling model in a plum fleece with a gray hood, arms crossed

Model in a green print fleece with goggles and a face mask

Model in an olive fleece with a maroon hood in the snow

Model in a navy fleece sitting in the snow, goggles pushed up

Model in a snow-dusted navy fleece looking back over a shoulder

Two friends walking through the snow in navy and cream fleece

Friends in red and green fleece on a truck tailgate in the snow

Skier with poles in a dark fleece and goggles in falling snow

Back of a cream fleece with brown elbow patches and a pom beanie

The summer collection

Summer

For cool nights in the high country.

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Six friends in fleece laughing together as alpenglow lights the peaks

Back of a navy hooded jacket with a big lavender crescent moon, mountains in golden light

Two friends walking a dirt road in red and gray crewnecks

Model in a navy southwest-pattern fleece crewneck

Model in an olive grid fleece holding a steel tumbler

Smiling model in a heather gray crewneck with green cuffs

Model in a gray southwest-pattern fleece and ripped jeans in a meadow

Back of a red crewneck with purple elbow patches in a mountain valley

Model in a lavender fleece and gray beanie looking out at the mountains

Model in a black and white houndstooth fleece with pink cuffs

Model in a deep teal fleece at golden hour

Model in a maroon fleece crewneck with black cuffs in a mountain meadow

Model in a black textured fleece crewneck with maroon cuffs

Model in a heather gray crewneck with black trim

Model walking away through the meadow in a gray crewneck

Model in a purple textured fleece with black sleeves

Back of a pink print fleece with black sleeves, pine forest behind

Back of a maroon crewneck with black elbow patches facing a sunlit ridge

Model in a houndstooth fleece with a pink collar and black sleeves

Two friends in purple fleece sitting on a truck tailgate

Model in a red fleece crewneck with a patterned collar

Recently made

Fresh off the table

The latest one-of-ones off the cutting table. When one's gone, it's gone.

Sunflower-print fleece hoodie with maroon sherpa sleeves and zigzag elbow patches

Maroon fleece hoodie with Nordic-pattern and floral sleeves

Three fleece skirts with patterned side panels laid out on a table

Fuzzy mustard fleece hoodie with a blue sunflower-print hood and sleeves and brown elbow patches

Three patchwork Rad Rags beanies with cream and navy knit cuffs

A row of fleece skirts with bright patterned panels and Rad Rags labels

Catch the next batch at a pop-up

In the wild

Wear everywhere

Happy hour, campfires, powder days. Wherever you end up, Rad Rags come along.

Two women in Rad Rags hoodies with the hoods up, throwing shakas in a kitchen

Smiling person in a charcoal Rad Rags hoodie and a cap, standing in the snow

Two friends in matching sunflower-print Rad Rags hoodies by a campfire

Two people holding hands in matching floral Rad Rags fleece

Our story

That's a whole 'nother story

“I'm originally from Hawaii, and I started making Jams style surf trunks in 1974 in 4th grade…”

The founder, on where it all started

1974
Hawaii
Jams-style surf trunks, sewn in 4th grade. The first rags.
1986
Breckenridge
Rad Rags starts in the winter of '86–'87, making custom ski wear from Gore-Tex and similar materials. Nobody was making snowboard clothing yet, so we made that too.* The local snowboarders and skiers picked our name. It stuck.
1987
Salida
That spring we moved to Salida and started making Polartec clothing and rugged river wear.
Since
A bit of everything
Clothing, orthopedic soft goods, technical adventure gear. A long history of fabric and needle craft.
Today
Back in Breck
Focused on Polartec soft goods, and still making custom pieces and technical gear.