Every clothing brand says the same three words: sustainable, ethical, transparent. Almost none of them can show you what those words actually mean. We wanted to — so we spent...
Cheap polyester and uncertified dyes leave chemistry in the clothes you wear all day. Here's what's really in your fabric, how it reaches your skin, and how to lower your...
Two embroidered pieces can look similar in a photo and feel completely different in person — one crisp and built to last, the other loose and likely to pucker after...
Embroidered clothing can feel a little mysterious — how does a drawing end up stitched into fabric in thread? The process is more precise (and more human) than most people...
If you've shopped for embroidered clothing, you may have seen a "stitch count" listed — like 25,000 or 100,000 stitches. It sounds technical, but it's actually a simple and useful...
You've probably owned both kinds of clothing without thinking about it: a t-shirt with a design printed on the front, and a piece with a design stitched into it. That...
Buying GOTS-certified organic cotton is the first decision. How you care for it over the years that follow determines whether that decision results in a decade of good use or...
"Eco-friendly" is the most over-used word in fashion — and one of the least regulated. Plenty of brands slap it on a hang tag with nothing to back it up....
An organic cotton t-shirt sounds simple. It's not. Walk into any sustainable fashion store and you'll find t-shirts marketed as organic ranging from thin, slightly see-through basics to structured heavyweights...
A capsule wardrobe is a small, curated collection of versatile pieces that work together and never go out of style. The concept has been around since the 1970s but it's...
Walk into any sustainable fashion store and bamboo seems to be everywhere — bamboo t-shirts, bamboo leggings, bamboo underwear. The marketing is compelling: bamboo grows fast, needs little water, and...
Every time a synthetic garment goes through a wash cycle, it sheds thousands of microscopic plastic fibres into the water. These fibres — too small to be filtered by wastewater...
