About Anns Cottage - Surf & Lifestyle Fashion

A family surf and lifestyle retailer with stores across Cornwall and a website serving the rest of the country. It sells both the clothing side of surf culture and the equipment people actually get in the water with.

That combination is the point. Shops selling surf-branded hoodies are everywhere; shops that also stock wetsuits in a full range of sizes, and know the difference between them, are not.

What they carry

Wetsuits, boards, and beach equipment alongside surf and lifestyle clothing, footwear, sunglasses, watches and bags from the established surf labels.

Seasonality is sharper here than in most clothing retail: summer suits and boardshorts in season, winter suits and thicker neoprene from autumn.

Choosing a wetsuit

Thickness is given as two or three numbers, such as 5/4/3, meaning millimetres at the torso, legs and arms. In British water a 5/4 with a hood is winter kit, a 4/3 covers autumn and spring, and a 3/2 is a summer suit.

Seams decide warmth as much as thickness. Flatlock seams let water through and belong in warm water; glued and blind-stitched seams keep it out and are what British seas require.

Fit must be tight. A wetsuit works by trapping a thin layer of water against the skin, and a loose suit flushes cold water through continuously. If you can pinch loose neoprene at the lower back, it is too big.

Looking after it

Rinse in cold fresh water after every session, dry inside out in shade, and hang it folded over a wide bar rather than on a coat hanger, which stretches the shoulders. Never leave a suit in a hot car or dry it in direct sun, because both destroy neoprene.

Using an Anns Cottage discount code

Enter the code at checkout and check whether hardware such as boards is excluded, since bulky equipment usually carries its own delivery terms. Buying the suit and the accessories together is where a single code does the most work.