Late October in Milan pulls a strange trick. The morning sits near 8 °C, the afternoon climbs back toward 17, and whatever you walked out in is wrong by two o’clock. That gap between the hours is where a fleece set stops being loungewear and starts being actual clothing, and the full tracksuits at Gallery Dept are priced flat at €100 for both halves together — no tiers, no size surcharge, nothing clever going on with the number.
Autumn up north never commits to anything
Bologna in November is damp more often than it’s cold, which are two completely different problems. Then the tramontana comes down over Turin and suddenly 10 °C feels like 4. April does the same thing in reverse. You get a fortnight of weather that can’t decide, and a single heavy coat is the wrong tool for all of it.
A fleece set handles that range because it comes apart. The top goes over a t-shirt on a mild afternoon and the bottoms stay home. On a 6 a.m. train to Florence you wear both and sleep against the window. By the time you’re walking back from dinner the hood is up, and the whole thing is doing the job of a jacket, badly, but well enough.
So what does the €100 actually cover?
Two garments. A sweatshirt — hooded or crewneck, depending on the set — and the matching joggers, in thick soft fleece rather than the thin brushed stuff that goes flat after a season. Separately a hoodie runs €70 and joggers run €70, so the set is doing you a favor, though that’s not really the interesting part.
The interesting part is the color. Plenty of the shop’s pieces are garment-dyed or vintage-washed, which means the shade is never perfectly flat and two copies of the same model can land slightly different. Buying the top and bottom as one set sidesteps that entirely. They came out of the same process. They match because they were made to.
And the prints carry across both pieces, which is the whole reason anyone buys a set in the first place. The logo, the wordmark, a paint splatter — on a tracksuit it reads as one garment instead of two things you hoped would agree.
The five sets on the shelf right now
It’s a short list on purpose. The shop keeps a small catalogue and the full tracksuits are the shortest category in it, which honestly makes choosing less of a chore. All five live on the Tuta Gallery Dept page at the same €100.
- The crewneck Logo nera set drops the hood for a plain round neck, and that’s the one that vanishes under a coat collar without a bulky lump at the back of your neck.
- Hollywood CA blu navy carries its print across the back, so most of the graphic is behind you rather than on your chest — quieter from the front than you’d expect.
- Hollywood CA Logo gialla is the loud one. Yellow in a Milanese November is either exactly what you want or absolutely not, and you already know which.
- Logo grigio mélange is the set that argues with nothing. Mélange gray sits under any coat and next to any sneaker you own.
- Paint Splatter Logo grigia keeps the gray base but breaks it up with the splatter work, so it reads less like a gym set and more like something chosen.
How the cut sits once it’s on
There’s one unisex size chart here, S to XL, and it’s the same chart for everyone. No separate men’s and women’s grading, no guessing which label you’ve landed in. The shop’s own guide puts chest, waist, hip and length in centimeters, and your body measurement decides the size rather than the letter you usually buy.
The fit is relaxed by design. Your usual size gives you the roomy drape the garment was cut for; dropping one size pulls it closer to the body if you’d rather not swim in it. Stuck between two? For tracksuits the shop says go up, and that’s sound — the waist and hips are where a set gets uncomfortable first, and a slightly loose jogger is a non-issue while a tight one is all you’ll think about.
| Pro Tip: Try the sweatshirt on with the coat you’ll actually wear over it. A relaxed fleece plus a fitted wool coat is the one combination that fights, and you’d rather find that out at home than on a tram in Naples with both sleeves bunched at the elbow. |
When wearing it as a set earns its place
Not always, to be fair. There are days when the top over jeans is plenty and the matching bottoms would be overkill. But there are a handful of moments where the full set stops being a look and becomes the sensible option:
- Travel days, where you’re sitting for three hours and then walking for one, and a waistband with a drawcord beats a zip and a button every single time.
- The stretch after training, when you want to be dressed rather than changed.
- Cold evenings indoors in an old apartment with the heating on a timer that somebody else set.
- The short trip out — bread, coffee, a passeggiata that lasts twenty minutes — where you still want to look like you got dressed.
That last one is where the matching set does its best work, and it’s also why the color choice matters more than the price. Gray mélange gets you out the door without a thought. Yellow asks a bit more of you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is €100 the price for both pieces or just the top?
Both. Every full tracksuit in the category is listed at €100 and that covers the sweatshirt and the joggers as one purchase. The hoodies and joggers sold on their own sit at €70 each.
Does a tracksuit still work in January, or is it an autumn thing?
It works, it just stops being the outer layer. In a northern winter the fleece becomes the middle of the sandwich — t-shirt underneath, coat over the top — and the crewneck set is the easier one to layer because there’s no hood sitting under your collar.
Which set should I pick if I don’t want the graphic shouting?
Logo grigio mélange, or the navy Hollywood CA since its print sits across the back. The Paint Splatter gray is a middle option — visible, but the gray base keeps it calm.
How much is shipping, and when does it arrive?
The shop shows shipping options, costs and timing at checkout, because all three depend on where you’re sending it. They do that on purpose, so nobody can honestly quote you a flat number up front. Outside the EU, duties or import taxes may be charged to whoever receives the parcel.
Five sets, one price, and a size chart that treats everyone the same — it’s not a hard decision to make. Pick the color you’ll reach for on a gray Tuesday, take your usual size unless you want it leaner, and let the Italian autumn do what it wants.