How A Conscious Clothing Garment Is Made

How A Conscious Clothing Garment Is Made

We wanted to pull back the curtain and give you a behind the scenes of our production process. All of our garments are made to order, so it all starts with you, our amazing customer, hitting “send” on your order. Your order lands in our inbox. From there it is added to our “cut list.” Today we are following a Woodland Jumpsuit from fabric bolt to finished garment.

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Once we receive an order, we pull the proper sized pattern from our rack.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

Cara carefully lays out the pattern pieces, paying attention to the grain and the layout, creating as little scrap waste as possible. We pre-wash our fabrics in-house to prevent shrinkage once the garment is finished.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

The cut pattern pieces get neatly stacked on the sewing rack.

Our sewers grab a stack and start sewing. They fit the patten pieces together like a puzzle to bring the garment to life. We batch same color and style garments together for efficiency.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

We add the hand screen printed tag during the sewing process.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

Once sewn, the garment is trimmed.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

Next the cover stitch is applied.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

Then the snaps are added.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

Finally the garment is finished, any stray threads are snipped and rolled with a lint roller. Then each garment carefully inspected before being folded and packaged for shipping.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

We reuse scraps to thoughtfully wrap each order and tie up with one of our signature scissor stickers. Then we pack it up, free of plastic (whenever possible), and send it off to its new owner.

Conscious Clothing - How a garment is made

Where we hope she will unwrap and enjoy for years to come!

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