California, Part II — Fall 2026

The Balance Shorts

Balance Shorts Grey Balance Shorts Grey

Heavyweight fleece · Grey

Strength across the back. Soft enough to forget.

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Heavyweight fleece · Black

Softness across the back. Heavy enough to hold.

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Grey + Black · The pair

Both sides of the balance. One for you, one to share.

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I.

Still becoming.

It starts somewhere green and quiet — water, stone, the morning still deciding what it wants to be. Part I was about where you're going. Part II is about how it feels to already be on the way.

So we cut the Balance down to the knee and kept everything else.

The Balance Shorts in Grey in the garden
The Balance Shorts in Black on the garden rocks

II.

Strength. Softness. Swapped.

Turn around and the words appear. The Grey carries Strength; the Black carries Softness — each where you'd least expect it, because that's usually where it lives.

Strength and Softness across the back of the Balance Shorts in Grey
Strength and Softness across the back of the Balance Shorts in Black
Beneath a willow in the Balance Shorts in Grey
Softness on both backs by the pond
Walking across campus together in the Balance Shorts
San Diego State
The Balance Shorts in Grey on a campus footbridge
The Balance Shorts in Grey and Black on the footbridge

Heavy enough to feel considered. Soft enough to forget.

III.

Made to move.

Then the day asks for something. 350 gsm fleece, cut baggy and long — heavy enough to hold its shape at the cable machine, soft enough to wear straight out the door after.

Training in the Balance Shorts in Grey
Training in the Balance Shorts in Black
The infinity mark on the Balance Shorts in Grey
Softness on the Balance Shorts in Black mid-plank

IV.

Above it all.

By afternoon you've earned the view. Up on the roof, the city goes quiet and the light does the rest.

On a rooftop stool in the Balance Shorts in Grey, Strength on the Black beside her
The Balance Shorts in Black and Grey on the rooftop
The Balance Shorts in Grey and Black at the rooftop wall
Softness and Strength on the backs at the rooftop wall

V.

Worn together.

One in Grey, one in Black. Wear them as a pair, or keep one and let the other find you later.

Either way, the balance holds.

The Balance Shorts in Grey and Black on a campus rooftop

VI.

Strength. Softness.

One word on each. Carried everywhere you go.

Strength across the backs of the Balance Shorts in Black and Grey, Out Now

California is where we're becoming. Part II is where it starts to feel like home.

Jalen Banks, founder

Lived In.

California, Part II — The Balance Shorts in Grey and Black. Available now.