Our Quechua global design centre is based in Passy, at the foot of Mont-Blanc in Haute-Savoie. This location means we can test our products on natural terrain.
This hiking dress has been abrasion tested. Before being selected, the material of the dress was tested in our Decathlon Sportslab laboratory; then, once designed, the dress was worn with a loaded backpack for 10 hours of active walking.
This dress has been tested and approved by 15 female hiker testers and co-designers on the project through dozens of hiking trails in France in summer 2021: in the forest, in the countryside and on a city tour.
A hundred co-designers followed its development alongside us, through the Decathlon Cocreation platform, by preparing the design brief with us, tweaking its design, bringing their demanding eye to the fitting and during the field tests.