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01About the brand
What DRSKIN makes, and who it is for
Everything in this catalogue starts from the layer against the skin: the tights, the shorts, the shirts and the tanks are the same polyester and spandex knit cut for different parts of a body and different months of a year. That is why the range is narrow and why so much of it comes in packs.
- 2015 founded
- 33 styles in the range
- 95 colourways
- 252,560 ratings
Eight shelves, and seven of them are a layer you put on before the kit.
One knit, cut eight ways
Nearly everything DRSKIN makes starts as the same cloth: a 92 per cent polyester knit with 8 per cent spandex, smooth on the outside and cut smaller than the body it goes on. The tights are that cloth with a leg; the compression shorts are the same leg stopped at mid-thigh; the long-sleeve base layer is the same cloth with a sleeve, the sleeveless tank the same again with the sleeve gone. The winter pieces are the knit brushed on the inside face so it holds still air, and the mesh tanks are the same polyester in a more open structure.
A range built that way stays narrow on purpose. It means a size letter behaves the same way from shelf to shelf, so somebody who knows his letter in the tights can order the long sleeves without measuring again. It also means the shelves that look like eight products are really three or four cuts in different lengths and pack sizes, and we would rather say so than dress the catalogue up as something wider.
Why so much of it comes three to a box
A base layer comes off the body wet. It does not get a second wearing, which makes laundry, not taste, the thing that decides how many you own. One of anything means washing after every session; three covers a normal week with nothing hanging over a radiator. That is why the pack is the default here rather than the exception, and why the price per garment falls as the pack grows on every shelf.
The part worth reading before you order is the colour line on the card. A pack arrives as the colours it names, one of each, so a three-pack listed as black, grey and navy is one of each of those rather than three of whichever you would have chosen. Where a pack is single-colour, the card says that instead. Some of the pack names on this site are the brand's own codes rather than colour words, and where that is the case the card prints the code as it appears at the till instead of guessing a colour on your behalf.
What compression means here, and what it does not
It describes a fit. A compression garment is knitted smaller than the part of the body it goes on, so it holds rather than hangs: the fabric stays in contact through a movement instead of sliding, and an outer layer gets something smooth to sit on instead of gripping the skin. That is a fact about a garment, it is measurable, and we will print it.
What it is not is a claim about blood, soreness, recovery or performance. There are plenty of sentences available to copy on that subject and none of them are on this site, because we have no evidence of our own to put behind them and a shop is the wrong place to be handing out that kind of assurance. What a close-fitting layer does for you is between you, your body and, where it matters, a clinician.
The size run, and where it stops
Sizes run S to 3XL on the tights, the compression shorts, the athletic shorts, the long-sleeve base layers, the training tees and the fleece-lined winter pieces. The tank tops stop at 2XL. That is not a rule about who the brand is for, it is simply where those cuts currently end, and every card prints its own run rather than a range for the site as a whole.
Two numbers do all the work: the waist for anything below the belt and the chest for anything above it. Measure against skin, hold the tape level, and read the chart on the buying page rather than the shirt size you buy on a high street. On anything with the word compression on it, a measurement that lands between two letters takes the larger. The loose training tee is the one place that reverses, because it is cut to hang.
The facts on a card, and where they come from
Four things are printed against every piece here and all four come out of our own product data rather than out of a paragraph somebody typed: the fibre content, what arrives in the box, the size run for that particular cut, and the price at our last update. Where the data has no figure, the line stays blank. How often the figures are re-read is set out on the page about our updates, and the terms page says what a price on this site is and is not.
The founding year above is the one fact this site states about its own company, because a buyer is entitled to know whether a name is a decade old or a fortnight old. Everything else you might want to know about a garment is on its card, in inches and percentages, where it can be held against the label sewn into the piece in your hands.
02The brand
About DRSKIN
What we make, who it is for, what separates a base layer with its fibre content printed from one sold by a photograph of somebody sprinting, and how long we have been cutting it.
What is DRSKIN?
A compression and training wear brand. DRSKIN makes full-length compression tights, three-quarter tights, compression shorts and loose 10-inch athletic shorts, long-sleeve and short-sleeve base layers, hooded and Y-back tank tops, and fleece-lined winter layers, on eight shelves and mostly in a 92 per cent polyester knit with 8 per cent spandex. Sizes run S to 3XL depending on the cut, much of the range is sold in packs of two to five, and almost everything costs between nine and fifty dollars.
Is DRSKIN a skincare brand?
No, and the name misleads people every week. There is no cream, no serum and no dermatology behind it: DRSKIN is clothing worn against the skin, which is where the name comes from, and every product on this site is a garment. If you typed the name looking for a compression tight rather than a moisturiser, you are in the right place.
What makes a DRSKIN base layer different from a supermarket one?
Three things you can check before you click. The fibre content is printed on the card, so you know whether the stretch comes from eight per cent spandex or from nothing at all. The pack contents are printed too, so a three-pack tells you which three colours arrive rather than leaving it to the parcel. And the size run for that particular cut is on the card, because the tanks stop at 2XL while the tights and the long sleeves go to 3XL.
The trade is the cloth. A fifteen-dollar pair of tights is not a sixty-dollar pair, it will not last as many seasons, and the card does not pretend otherwise.
Who is DRSKIN training wear for?
Somebody who trains often enough that laundry is part of the decision. Within that, the compression tights and shorts are for the layer under a kit, the long-sleeve base layers for cold mornings and contact sports, the tanks for the gym in summer, the loose athletic shorts for wearing over the top, and the fleece-lined pieces for the three months a year when the summer knit is not enough. The sizing guidance on the front page is written for somebody buying compression wear for the first time and unsure whether it is meant to feel this close.
Does DRSKIN make anything other than base layers?
Almost nothing. Everything on these shelves is worn against or near the skin, with one exception: a pair of 26-inch cotton lifting straps that sits on the training extras shelf because people who bought the tights asked for it. There are no shoes, no bags, no supplements and no skincare here, and a catalogue that sells a compression tight by its fibre content should not also be selling a protein tub.
How long has DRSKIN been making compression wear?
Since 2015, which is 11 years of the same narrow range. The useful part of that is not the anniversary but its consequence: the full-length tight, the compression short and the long-sleeve base layer have kept their cuts across those years while the pack sizes and the colourways turned over, so somebody replacing a pair that finally went through at the thigh can find the same cut by its name rather than by hope.
Where can I buy DRSKIN compression wear?
Every buying button on this site opens the piece you were looking at, in the colourway and pack size you chose, at our retail partner, where the size is picked, the payment is taken and any exchange is handled. The catalogue button at the foot of every page opens the whole range in one place instead of one garment.
The catalogue is easiest to read from the piece you already know you need rather than from the price list. If you are starting from scratch, the front page of DRSKIN lays the eight shelves out in order, and the sizing block on it settles the letter before you open a card.
How the prices and size runs on these pages are kept current is a separate question, and it is answered on how we update the catalogue.
Every DRSKIN size, every pack
Every size, colourway and pack in the DRSKIN range sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.