Why We Started
Most knee protection doesn't get worn. It slips, overheats, or gets in the way, so it ends up in a drawer and the knees take the damage instead.
Outlast started there. The problem was never that men didn't know to protect their knees. It was that nothing was worth keeping on all day. So that's what got built: a slim compression sleeve that goes under the pants, made for the short kneels these trades are full of, not the sustained kneeling everything else is designed around.
The body is the asset the work wears down. You don't get a second one.