Oiselle Blog

In 1928, Marylou Jackson, Velma Jackson, Ethyl Miller, Leolya Nelson, and Constance White set a challenge - cycle 250-mi from Harlem, NY to Washing...

The Oiselle Haute Volée are in the final countdown to the Trials, looking for their windows of opportunity. Follow their progress here as we break ...

Josephine Law, assistant manager at the Oiselle Flagship Store, covers the history of Seattle’s International District and reflects on how cultural...

Haute Volée wheelchair athlete Jenna Fesemyer is an absolute force. She exudes positivity, loves to share her story and knowledge, and is lifting u...

Protections for mothers everywhere are essential to life and sport. In this blog we proudly announce Oiselle's partnership with &Mother, a non-...

LilSheba's guide to self-accountability, and lessons she learned over the past year. Realistic tips and tricks for setting yourself up for success ...

Pole-vaulter Megan Clark has been a teammate on Oiselle’s Haute Volée since 2016, and it’s been such a pleasure watching her evolution and progress...

An interview with Mia Saine, the illustrator and creator behind the family of twelve busy characters featured in the Allbirds x Oiselle collection....

Whatever your workplace looks like, you likely have a mental standard for clothes that make you feel like it’s Business Time. And returning to that...

This week, we're profiling someone who has had many roles at Oiselle, Hannah Calvert. It all started with a letter, and five years later her love f...

A story of strength, sobriety, and sexual identity. Our Volée teammate Emily opens up about her history with alcohol - and how substance abuse can ...

You've already seen the Queen & Sisters and we recently introduced The Esther. With its special heat-molded cups and its wide, convertible, and...

We’ve always been obsessed with beautiful and high-performing fabrics. And when it comes to having options, this is our best season ever, with both...

The super shorts that started it all. Rogas turn 14 this year, and she’s sprouted wings into a full collection of shorts. Colors, prints, lengths,...

We are so excited to announce the launch of our new In2Sports Bra - which will be an always-available style from Oiselle. Each In2Sports bra purcha...

Haute Volée teammate, Sasha Gollish, was inspired by her teammates posting letters to their younger selves and penned a letter to her older self. 

What a difference a year makes! Leap Day, 2020 - we had 24 racers getting ready to line up at the marathon Olympic Trials in Atlanta. A mere dozen ...

Oiselle was born of the simple question: what if? Every season, we continue to ask what if? And every season, we find it exciting to offer new ans...

A year ago, eating outside in the cold was mostly reserved for camping trips, or maybe after a warm something after a winter race. Then COVID. And ...

"I’ve always resisted presenting myself as having a singular identity. I want and need to be more than a runner. Just as I want and need to be more...

After reading an eye-opening article on the whiteness of running, Oiselle Volée member Jinghuan Liu Tervalon realized she had relied on her privile...

Let’s face it, 2020 was a s*** year! There is so much collective grief and suffering right now. As a therapist, I can tell you firsthand that many ...

We are excited to announce that Alison Mariella Désir is joining our Leadership Team in Seattle as the Director of Sports Advocacy. The newly creat...

2020 gave us lemons, so we decided to make some lemonade. Meet the beginnings of our 2021 season.

Lauren Fleshman's "Ode to Cozy", inspired by our Hey Hacci collection.

"Since day one in my design practice, I’ve wanted to spend more time exploring the future than trying to build a moat around the past, or even the ...

Working with other women creatives, and WOC designers, illustrators, and photographers is part of our mission. Beautiful prints are truly the glue ...

Birds. Not just a metaphor for diversity, but also coexistence in a way that we really need right now. As we look ahead to 2021, and all that we ho...

We’ve all heard the proverb, “birds of a feather flock together”, but if 2020 taught us anything, we fly further when that flock includes the suppo...

"This past week, while white supremacists desecrated the Capitol Building, carrying symbols of hate and racism, all I felt was disgust and outrage....

We are so jazzed for all things bras! With the launch of the Queen and Sisters bras, we would like to highlight the design journey. Hear from lead ...

Our two new band/cup sports bras, the Sisters Bra and the Queen Bra, are the most highly engineered products we’ve ever produced. Ten years in the ...

A guide to measuring your bra size.

It was January 2018, when Kami (Oiselle’s lead designer) and Sally were traveling in Asia together and made a pledge. To seek and learn and develop...

Sarah Lesko takes us through our 2020 team highlights.

We want to celebrate Val Allman's time with Oiselle the past few years as she transitioned from an accomplished collegiate athlete to a 2-time US c...

Oiselle's social media specialist, Rebecca, began writing a weekly series highlighting the stories of women in athletics. After starting with some ...

Get to know Volée teammate Dinée Dorame. Dog mom to two Schnoodle pups and a citizen of the Navajo Nation, Dinée is elevating Indigenous voices thr...

Food insecurity is a growing stressor for many families during this time of Covid, and there are so many ways to give: volunteering at a local food...

Wondering what to get the run-lover in your life? You won’t get better tips than these gems from Kara Goucher, Alison Désir, and Lauren Fleshman. S...

AVID RUNNER GIFTS They love it, they really do. The daily runs,...

When Oiselle started the Bras for Girls program in 2017, we knew it felt right. We had extra bra inventory and we also were paying attention to new...

Oiselle athlete and Littlewing teammate Rebecca Mehra recently sprained her ankle doing a drill at practice. Luckily the kittens she had adopted ju...

We are so happy to report the Bras for Girls donation program is thriving and making a positive impact. We have donated more than 9,000 sports bras...

Oiselle teammate, marathoner, and soon-to-be mom of  2, Teal Burrell shares her experience with running in the second trimester.

Oiselle teammate and marathoner Andie Cozzarelli shares her reality of 2020, coping with isolation, anxiety, and depression. None of us are alone.

We had all the ingredients for a beautiful photoshoot: a great weather forecast, a camper van (thanks to our prez, Atsuko!), Mighty Creatures photo...

As I write in the opening spread of Bird Machine, our first-ever publication, lifting athlete voices is core to Oiselle. And while this piece also ...

You’ve heard us say Community is Everything and for some, this community is literally right outside their doorstep. With the pandemic causing quara...

We're out here for good. And we're going to keep running - even in, and maybe especially because of, the dark. So let's circle up, stick together, ...