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The Antigua Group is one of the nations leading designers of lifestyle and golf apparel. As 2015 draws to a close, Antigua is now announcing their new lines for 2016.

Antigua hasn’t just been successful on the men’s side, but on the women’s side as well.

Now heading into 2016, Antigua, comes in off of two strong years with Women’s Performance Collection Outerwear.

“The addition of multiple outerwear styles has been a turning point for us in the women’s collection,” says Danielle Dellios, head of women’s design at Antigua. “I have found there are so many different types of outerwear that it was easy to expand the offering by adding in shell pieces along with knit pullovers that act like layering pieces.”

Antigua’s 2016 Women’s Outerwear. Antigua.com and ShopAntigua.com

Style Expression uses a polyester/spandex heavy interlock fabric and features drawcords at the side seems for cinching capability.

One of main features on the garment is the wearer can decide how much to cinch or leave it fully extended to wear as a pullover. The fabric is lightweight but feels dense, due to the heavy brushing and the nature of the jacquard pattern.

What this fabric does is keep the wearer warm, while still breathing. Colors for 2016 are focusing on saturated jewel tones.

“We feel that neon colors are slowly fading away and more basic colors, primary colors were coming into play,” said Dellios. “Color direction in the sportswear line has been stagnant, so we took cues from high fashion and made our version of a primary palette. For the first time in years, we decided not to run pink. Instead we did a bright clean red called fire.”

Colors a Kelly green called Verdant, a royal blue named Hypnotic, a sunshine yellow called Starburst, and a berry color called Mardi Gras. These tones are paired with black and white through out the collection.

Antigua is now using a moisture-wicking technology called Desert Dry, that was created exclusively for Antigua.

Antigua 2016 Spring Activewear.

Antigua has also announced its Spring of 2016 line of Women’s Performance Collection Activewear.

The collection combines polyester and spandex, unique prints, color palettes that include jewel tones. This collection is light to mid-weight overtops, plus a strong use of heathers through the assessment of polos and sheerless polos. All fabrics and silhouettes have been LPGA Tour-tested.

“During the development of the Spring 2016 collection, I felt a desire to be more conservative with styling and spent my time focusing on fabrication,” said Dellios.” The activewear marketplace has reached it’s threshold and consumers are inundated with product offerings. So our design team had to create something unique. I wanted to refine the overall look of the collection, by eliminating trend-specific details and keep styling at a minimum. By doing that the collection ended up being more sophisticated and classic looking.”

Antigua’s 2016 Spring Men’s Performance-72 Fashion Golf Wear

The 2016 Men’s Performance-72 Fashion Golf Wear collection has been announced. The 2016 style comes from current trends in fashion that are growing, from couture to ready-to-wear.

Colors are along the lines seen on ladies side.

“Seeing the boldness of these colors offered in tandem is such a refreshingly bold punch of newness that it’s compelling to want to process them all,” says Sean Gregg,vice president of product development and product support.

Antigua’s Spring 2016 Men’s Performance-72 Fashion Golf Wear collection includes both of our state-of-the art moisture-wicking Desert-Dry technologies.

Antigua has announced that it’s 2016 Exceed Long-Sleeve Shirts are designed for Ultraviolet Protection (the UP-Factor is a rating of 50). Like the SPF rating system used with sunscreens, a garment with a UPF of 50 blocks 49/50ths or 98 percent of the UV radiation, allowing just 1/50th of it’s falling on the surface of the garment to pass through.

The Antigua Exceed solid-colored polo, that are 100 percent polyester micro flat pique with Desert Dry. These are available in both men’s and women’s styles. The men’s has a three-button placket knit collar and open cuff, that comes in white, dark red, dark purple, dark royal, navy and black.

“Our long sleeve Exceed for men and women has a 50 UPF factor,” says Ron McPherson, president and CEO of Antigua. “It’s strong protection from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. These fine products are worn for protection by golf and tennis players. It’s a great shirt in cool to cold weather. But is excellent sun protection as well.”

Antigua returned again this past October as the official apparel provider at the National Long Drive Competition. Antigua has also showed it’s commitment to women’s golf by signing an agreement with the Executive Women’s Golf Association (EWGA).

The EWGA has over 3,000 members that competed in the EWGA’s Championship and Match Play Series this past fall. “Partnering with the EWGA is a perfect fit for us”, said McPherson.

Antigua is headquartered in Peoria Arizona, and his license agreements with the NFL, NHL, MiLB, MLB, NBA, and UFC. Along with the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour,and the PGA of America. For more information on Antigua and it’s variety of products, please visit Antigua.com or ShopAntigua.com.