ALDER

Alder Wetsuits was a dream, originating from one man's passion for surfing.

Over 50 years ago, Bob Westlake began to surf around the west coast of England. He soon discovered a niche in the surfing market, with a lack of Californian style surfing wear being available in the ’60s.
This prompted Bob’s wife, Annie Westlake, to make some of the first boardshorts in the UK. With growing sales and increased demand for surfing products, the opportunity arose for a business development that is today ‘Alder Sportswear’.
Alder now has an established track record and strives to move the growth of its business forward with innovative technology and design, combined with a competitive strategy.
Product developers have years of experience within the surfing industry which leads Alder to boast a very exciting and advanced wetsuit and accessories range.

Our fitting advice

As a general rule we find that Alder's adult wetsuits and boots are narrow fitting while their junior wetsuits are quite wide fitting. 

For ladies wetstuits they changed their sizing quite drastically a few years ago. In the past we advised women to go a size higher than their normal clothing but with current stock that has changed. Now, we say stick to your normal clothing size but you will need broad shoulders or a significant busom to fill out an Alder women's wetsuit upper body. If you previously used Alder in their old sizing then Billabong or Roxy could be more appropriate. Alder did not update their ladies size charts to reflect the new sizes.

For the men's suits they are particularly long fitting, so if you're accustomed to needing the Tall variant from other brands like C-Skins, O'Neill or Rip Curl the standard version of the size in Alder will very often be correct, e.g. if you're a Medium Tall for C-Skins, the Medium in Alder will be at least as long. We regularly have customers over 6ft who find other brand suits that are long enough are too wide, if this has been your experience we strongly recommend considering Alder instead.

Typically the junior age 16 will fit petite ladies as well but it is a straighter cut than the ladies wetstuits.

Alder are our budget brand, you will get good value on their range of products if they are the appropriate fit for your shape.

All of the Alder size charts are below, we are adding these to the appropriate products as the site develops.

Size Charts 

Footwear

Headgear

Gloves

Wetsuits