Want a quick-dry, lightweight, multi-functional shirt that moves with you when you’re on the move? This long-sleeve stretch version of the popular Silver Ridge shirt from Columbia works a lot of features into its $55 list price.
It’s got tabs with buttons so you can roll up the sleeves as you get hotter and keep them there. There’s a fabric hook on both the inside and outside to hang it up. Each pocket has a zipper and there’s also a pocket where you can stick in a pen or small knife, with a buttonhole to allow it to poke up through the pocket flap if the object is too long. It’s made of wicking, quick-dry nylon, but the additional 4% elastane fabric provides more give than similar shirts so you have a wider range of motion.
Naturally it dries quickly when you sink wash it and in my experience it only took five minutes for sweat to dry if I moved from a hot place to a cooler one. There are vents to let out some of that body heat too, which helps a lot, and a mesh liner along the top third of the shirt.
The fabric is wispy-light, a good thing unless you routinely rely on your shirt for sun protection—the SPF rating is only 15. Not for the Danes perhaps.
The Silver Ridge Stretch long-sleeve shirt from Columbia Sportswear comes in five sizes and four colors. There’s a women’s version too, with significantly trimmer styling and no pockets on the front. It has a list price that’s $5 less, has an SPF rating of 30, and comes in six colors.
The links above go to the specific shirt pages on Columbia.com. It’s also available at these retailers:
Columbia Silver Ridge Stretch Shirt – Men’s at Backcountry.com
Silver Ridge Stretch at RockCreek.com
