The Antigua Group, Inc. debuted its Spring 2017 Women’s Golf Collection.
“The 2017 ladies golf collection is a continuation of the simplicity that the ’16 line embodied,” said Antigua women’s designer Danielle Dellios.
“In the new collection, fabrics and colours play a key role versus styling and silhouette. The market was calling for a fresh take on primary color, which was made possible by mixing colours together,” she said.
“Thus, each grouping consists of two primaries. For example, our new green colour, Cypress, is mixed with a bright blue colour, Cabana. There are a total of four color combos, each mixing two primary colors,” said Dellios.
Every printed, striped or colour-blocked style within the collection mixes the two colors, instead of using traditional neutral accents like grey or khaki,” she added.
“Combining two complementary primary shades really pops. Prints are as strong as ever in the marketplace, which meant creating unique artwork that could also be used to mix colours and give new life to basic styles,” she said.
Styles
One of the new sleeveless styles, Mischief, features an asymmetrical fabric blocking detail, using a printed geometric pattern run at an angle across the top of the garment and a solid poly mesh fabric for the bottom half.
Not only does the multi-colour print allow women to wear multiple different-colored bottoms, the print’s asymmetry highlights a logo.
Another style, Sterling, is a long sleeve, half-zip pullover. It features soft peached jersey fabric, run in solid color for the body, and a space dye pattern for the insets.
The space dye fabric incorporates two primary colours along with black and white, and also offers a new type of heather effect with the start and stop of the multi coloured yarn.
Trust features an ultra-light, high-stretch woven fabric, along with a few feminine details such as rounded, tail bottom and pin-tucks at the top shoulder.
“For the first time ever, we’ve introduced a lightweight stretch woven polo,” said Dellios.
Trust is designed so a woman can wear this stretch woven polo on the course and also on the weekends. It’s casual enough to don running errands, but also offers a no-stitch self-fabric collar and covered button placket.
Haven is one of the line’s more technical styles, combining a few simple details that make it appear more sporty and athletic.
Silicone printing has been popular for a while, “but instead of running an all-over print, I used a single line of printed colour around the zipper placket and collar,” said Dellios.
“The colour silicone print is placed on an all-white-bodied garment. The print on the collar gives the illusion of tipping with the tech feel of silicone, while the pointelle mesh pattern insets and sleeves ensure that the garment keeps the golfer cool and dry,” added Dellios.
Rogue mixes the entire colour palette in an all-over linear sublimation print. This style can be worn with any colour of bottoms.
“Since the print is bold, I kept the styling traditional with a button placket and open cuff,” said Dellios. “I also ran the bold print from Rogue in our knit skort called Cinch. We have carried Cinch in solid colours for years and it’s one of our best-selling bottoms, so it was a given to run it in the print.”
Many women prefer to wear leggings on the course, either by themselves or with a skirt over.
“With the ath-leisure trend still big, I decided it would be a good opportunity to put a basic legging and skirt in the line,” said Dellios.
The Backspin legging features a heavy peached jersey that provides maximum coverage and soft hand.
It comes in solid black and black heather. Its counterpart is the Enclave skirt, a basic, lightweight stretch woven with a high-low hemline and zipper hip pockets at the front. It comes in black only.
