Which jersey stands out? Rating the Tour de France Femmes kits

With a name like Anna Wintour, you’d think the esteemed Vogue editor might’ve at least considered a career as a pro cyclist. The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift starts today in Vannes, and the most important jersey on tour depends on who you ask. GC contenders will tell you it’s yellow, sprinters eye the green, climbers pine over polka dots, the youth want white, but for me, every team jersey is in contention for the biggest prize, Best Dressed. Which team has the goods to come out on top?

Please note that the jerseys of Arkéa-B&B Hotels, Cofidis, EF Education-Oatly, Lidl-Trek, Liv-AlUla-Jayco, Movistar, Team Picnic Post-NL, Team Visma | Lease-A-Bike, and Uno-X Mobility are identical for the men’s and women’s pelotons and have been reviewed here. In this article, you’ll find reviews of jerseys exclusive to the Tour de France Femmes peloton. Let’s get into it!

The AG Insurance-Soudal jersey was designed to evoke the whizz of a passing cyclist, and it does exactly what it says on the tin. A pattern of diagonal light flares of light blue, green, and white pop against the jersey’s dark blue base. This dynamic pattern does evoke the whirl of a cyclist speeding by, both the smooth, straight motion and the flash of colour. The green light flares also complement the green stripe within the AG Insurance logo, integrating the logo into the design well. 

Though I think the white block across the chest and sleeves could be designed in a less clunky, more dynamic way, the coordinated colours and flashy pattern amount to a suitable jersey and a spruce up of Soudal’s 2024 design. 

Rating: 6/10

CANYON//SRAM know how to design a kit, so much so that the CANYON//SRAM Generation development team wore one of my all-time favourite kits in 2022. The team's 2025 jersey, ‘Infinitum’, is their latest achievement. It’s a design that arches across the body, a speckled purple wave against a coral pink background, with smudges of hot pink, sky blue, and orange. Overlayed on this are small accents resembling the isobars seen in weather forecasts, and the most remarkable shape, a kind of spirally, starry shape in sagey green, that extends across the body of the jersey from the rider’s right side. 

What I love about this jersey is that, though it’s an incredibly busy and bold design, dynamism is not the overwhelming impression. The arching wave, the smudges of colour; the eye lingers on these and isn’t rushed along. Amidst the bustle, the jersey makes space to pause, space to breathe. Designer McKenzie Sampson described in a team press release that he was taken by the ebb and flow of racing; the use and conservation of energy; cycling’s assault on the senses, and he wanted to communicate these sensations in his design. This jersey is a stellar success for evoking exactly that: the upsurge and ambling of the peloton, through a combination of ecstatic colour and languid design elements, and for just being a beautiful, sophisticated design.

Rating: 10/10

The Ceratizit cycling team jersey is a plain design that ticks all the necessary boxes. Red on the shoulders, sleeves, and collar, and a blue-gradient body, these two primary colours are separated by the seam joining the shoulders and body. The jersey has a tessellating triangular overlay as well, associated with their main sponsor, as is the red. The ‘CERATIZIT’ logo is done in white, and since there aren’t any other sponsors for it to compete for attention with, it could have been a little bit bigger, bolder, and more interesting. And given that the rest of the jersey is dictated by the company’s brand identity, why make the logo itself so plain? 

The clash of complementary red and blue is the most exciting thing about this jersey, so I do like the addition of red on the shorts to match the top. Overall, a lacklustre jersey design that’s unfortunately too preoccupied with the sponsor to tell us anything about the team itself.

Rating: 3/10

FDJ-Suez have swapped their Odyssey jersey for a new Tour de France Femmes and 2026 jersey, “Burning Core”. And a black kit like this? It’s impossible for it not to be a statement. Officially, it evokes “the invisible hours of cycling”, early rises, long hours, and moments of personal doubt, with the molten centre of signature blue and red embodying the team’s “passion, unity and determination”, a thoughtful testament to their riders. But reading the caption on their Instagram, “No Brightness Without the Dark”, how can it not also call to mind Demi Vollering’s collapsed 2024 Tour de France campaign? Either way, this jersey is pure gravitas and pure drama, establishing the team as a force to be reckoned with as soon as they arrive to sign on. 

This jersey is an even deeper black than the deep, intense navy blue of their jersey of the first half of 2025; that nebulous design has been replaced by a black hole. The heart of blue and red blazing through the dark, symbolising team connectedness and solidarity, is also such a poignant and moving concept. Their team salutes at any stage-winning moment, signs across the chest, will be invested with new meaning, new gratitude and more heart. This FDJ jersey is so formidable, so soul-stirring and dramatic in design and concept, I don’t think a design could be more well-suited to this determined, powerhouse team.

Rating: 9/10

It’s orange, what else is there to say? It’s an orange cycling kit. But wait, it’s actually not orange. It’s FENIX’s ‘rosso namib’ hue, inspired by the Namibian desert.  And the sage green you might have seen, that’s ‘verde comodoro’, inspired by the city of Comodoro in Argentina, and their signature blue is ‘blue fes’, inspired by Morocco (I would’ve gone with ‘azzurro puck’ personally). But I really love this minimalist approach to jersey design, which embraces a limited rotation of colours, especially since they’re so idiosyncratic and unique. It’s a great complement to the FENIX brand. I’m a fan.

7/10

Human Powered Health have embraced a gradient design of orange and purple since their sponsor joined the team in 2022 (previously, they were the very orange Rally cycling). The 2025 edition of the kit makes minor changes to the pattern to “streamline” the design, adding an inverse gradient just above the HPH logo and into the sleeve. “Streamline”, as the team wrote, I’m not quite sure, as this adds a ‘bump’ to a pristine gradient, but I am a fan of this new visually-interesting addition, it adds personality to a design that was perhaps getting stale. This bold and bright mainstay of the peloton is as welcome as ever. 

Rating: 7/10

The Laboral Kutxa - Fundación Euskadi team jerseys are a delightful lilac number, with a gradient of raspberry pink. plum purple, and minty green. These pastels form a savvy criss-crossing, geometric design across the chest, a highly structured look creating the appearance of impenetrable armour. It's a subtle contrast and such a novelty to combine these flowery colours with such an architectural pattern. This jersey is not just a treat for the eye, but an expression of pride and tenacity.

Rating: 8/10

In June, Roland cycling team added a new jersey sponsor, Le Dévoluy, giving them a new base camp in the Alps in time for the summer racing season, plus a minor addition to their jersey. Roland’s 2025 jersey is a textured, grainy vermilion moment accented with green and white logos, it reminds me of a robust, rugged red desert. Texture is such a practical and artful design option, I’m surprised more teams don’t utilise it. The rocky texture of this Roland jersey is a rich, assertive expression of their character. I’m a big fan of this vivid and gritty, simple but effective design. 

Rating: 7/10

What a knockout jersey! In 2025, the St Michel - Preference Home - Auber93 team added a vibrant green to their signature orange look. On the rider’s left side, a powdery pattern of lime green is thrown towards the centre of the jersey, towards a framed St Michel logo, fit with the French flag and rooster. Though I do think the vertical half-half design halts the dynamism of the colour and pattern, this jersey is a total standout, impossible to miss in the bunch. 

Rating: 6/10

SD Worx–Protime have released an anniversary jersey for the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, celebrating the 80th year of the SD Worx company. The sky-blue jersey with an asymmetric orange sleeve on the rider’s right side also features the logos of SD Worx’s 80 biggest customers. This jersey is fine by design standards, but lacks the punch of the 2025 kit, a pop-arty, newspaper-print number. That jersey has been knocked out by this corporate Christmas party.

Rating: 4/10

UAE Team ADQ are taking a little bit of home with them to the Tour. The team unveiled a new look in 2025 featuring a rendition of the sand dunes and waters of Abu Dhabi. Where other jerseys typically evoke significant places through symbolism, this team has rendered home scenery in a way that’s suitable for a cycling jersey, a tricky feat. 

UAE Team ADQ do a lovely job, achieving a pretty picture of those dunes with clean, smooth, ebbing lines. With a white ‘sky’ overlooking the dunes and constituting the upper body and sleeves in the jersey, the three-tiered structure of the jersey is streamlined and splendid. A picturesque jersey for a picturesque tour of France.

Ranking: 7/10

The VolkerWessels 2025 cycling kit feels like a throwback. The jersey is structured around the seams joining the shoulder and body, creating a harsh distinction between the black sleeves and stark white chest. The body of the jersey is a flat, single tone, primary blue overlayed with the VolkerWessels logo. This is exactly the kind of design that would’ve been a hit in any peloton in the second half of the 2010s and early 2020s. 

The VolkerWessels jersey shows us that cycling kits, just like all contemporary fashions, move fast. While 2010s designs seem to value durability and functionality above all else, designers in the past few years seem to revel in the opportunity to invent a distinct look fit with character, sophistication, and flair. The Volkerwessels jersey, choosing an outdated style, sticks out in the peloton, and not in the best way.

Rating: 4/10

Last but definitely not least, the Winspace Orange Seal team is arriving at the Tour with the sleekest jersey. It’s a half-and-half design, with baby blue on the rider’s left and white on the right. The logos are also written in deeper blue, a really simple, chic way to integrate and harmonise the logo and jersey. 

I think this kit, a departure from their orange look of previous years, is so effective and memorable, minimal, modern and cool.

Rating: 7/10

The teams of the Tour de France Femmes bring the fun and colour, but their jerseys are also sincere reflections of their big ambitions and team spirit. See the peloton in action at the start in Vannes on the 26th of July and tell us which one is your favourite!