Friday, January 24, 2014

Truly Domestic...

Admiring our peers...

An Oakland-based label, Voices of Industry, is one of the rare few to use fiber farmed and spun in the US, then handwoven into true cotton shirts

This company puts us to shame, but really there aint no shame in our game...we're doing our best to stay as socially responsible as possible through our production processes, and we're very proud of our efforts!  Anyway, we discovered a great article about, Voices of Industry, by CoolHunting about products "made in the USA," they make a very good point, this disclaimer "can be misleading: Even if the labor is domestic, fabrics might have been dyed, woven or cut in foreign countries and there's also the question of where materials such as threads or zippers are sourced."  97.5% of apparel sold in the United States is made internationally. 

With all of the controversy over international production (especially with the garment factory collapse and wage discrepancies in Asia), we're proud to be producing domestically on the labor side of things.  As well as focusing efforts in socially responsible fabric sourcing (staying organic, vegan leathers and suedes etc) as well as creating custom prints and having those produced domestically as well!
Stay tuned, our new fabrics come in Wednesday and we're STOKED and ready to post!
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Voices of Industry designs.

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