"I spent 12-hour shifts caring for other people. The irony was, I couldn't care for my own legs."

Sarah Mitchell spent 14 years as a nurse at a Manchester hospital. On her feet from 7pm to 7am, six nights a week. Her legs would swell. Her ankles would double in size before the end of every shift. Her doctor had told her the same thing for years: "Sarah, you need to wear compression socks."

She had tried. Over and over again.

"Every pair I tried either stopped halfway up my calf, dug in so tight it left marks that lasted until the next morning, or rolled down within the first hour of my shift. I once threw a pair in the bin at 2am because my leg had gone numb."

The problem wasn't compression. It was the fact that Sarah — like millions of women — has wider calves than what the industry considers "standard." And nobody seemed to care.

The Moment Everything Changed

In 2022, after a particularly brutal shift, Sarah came home, sat on the edge of her bed, and looked at her legs. Swollen. Marked. Aching.

"I sat there thinking — I know exactly what my legs need medically. I just can't find a sock that actually delivers it. That felt wrong. That felt like a problem worth fixing."

She reached out to Emma, a university friend specialising in technical textiles. Together, they spent 18 months testing fabrics, compression levels, and cuff designs. They recruited 40 women with wider calves for real-world trials — not in a lab, but in their everyday lives. On long shifts. On shopping days. On their feet from morning to night.

The brief was simple: the sock had to fit over wider calves on the first try, leave zero marks, stay up for 12 hours straight, and deliver real medical-grade compression.

After 23 prototypes, NEXFAB was born.

What NEXFAB Means

NEX — Next generation. The next generation of compression, built for the real bodies of real women.

FAB — Fabric. Because everything starts with a material that respects your shape.

"Every woman who puts on NEXFAB for the first time and says 'they actually fit' — that's why we built this. Not for the standard calf. For yours."
— Sarah Mitchell, Co-Founder

Built For Women Like You

Today NEXFAB is worn by nurses, teachers, active grandmothers, and women over 55 who refuse to let their legs decide what they can and cannot do.

Because medical-grade compression shouldn't only be available to "standard" legs.

20-30mmHg. Smart-Cuff. Nex-Tech Wide Fit.
Designed in Manchester. Built for your legs.