Welcome to Fifth Strain, a Sunderland-based workwear brand here to supply your business with high-quality, hard-wearing, and practical workwear garments.

Nick, our founder, grew up along the Wear, surrounded by honest, hard-working people. This brand is a product of Sunderland, a testament to the many lives that have influenced it.

Nick's reverence for those who worked to lay the foundations for modern Sunderland means we're committed to continuing their story. The workers' outfit in the mines was their collective identity, a uniform that took them to work in the most demanding conditions. What better way to continue their story than to take inspiration from their image and replicate it in our workwear brand, appreciating our heritage of hardwearing garments?

Fifth Strain wants to recognise the hard work of those we work with in keeping with our traditions. We have a duty of providing working-people with top-quality clothing.

We have established our own brick-and-mortar shop and we are proud to show that we are a business you can interact with face-to-face.

Contact us or pop in store to find out more!