A story about us.
We
live in difficult times, and as shopkeepers, environmentalists, mothers,
employers,
grandmothers….There
is a constant conundrum in our business heads. We
need to make new things
to sell in order to survive. We absolutely don’t
want to contribute to landfill. We want to look
beautiful and to keep our
customers looking beautiful too. We
want our lovely factory to keep
employing their expert sewers and cutters, to
pay their rents and their
council taxes. We want to keep
paying
our rent, to the lovely Marsden Hospital up the road in Sydney
Street, as well as our
enormous council tax bill to Kensington & Chelsea. We
want to print beautiful fabrics on the finest
washed linen to furnish your
houses and cover your sofas.
We
source the finest fabrics, and print lovely roses onto velvet, and make them
into clothes that
are
Extraordinary, Beautiful and very, very different. Happily,
we see many pieces of Cabbages & Roses
clothing on strangers in the street,
they always
stand out. Often we are stopped and
asked where we
found our beautiful clothes. Cabbages
& Roses clothes are still being worn 18 years after they were
made. This, I think, is
because our clothes last a very long time and really very special. They are
passed between the generations, are
sold on E-bay
sometimes for more than we sold them for
originally, and
they are worn and worn and worn.
And,
most importantly, they still look lovely 18 years later.
Rosie
Velvet is our newest print, taken from an old vintage document found in a junk
shop in
Scotland, and transferred digitally onto our lovely cotton velvet. Happily,
digital printing uses less
water than conventional printing and has less
wastage in dye runoff which – even though when
we do
hand print, we always use Oeko tex approved inks – must be a good thing.
Our Rosie
Velvet has been made into extraordinary coats, jackets, trousers, frocks…..
totally unique. Clothes to share, to show off in, to
celebrate in, to make life extraordinary in. Because
we are small, our orders
are small. But our statement is BIG. Although our clothes are more
expensive than high street stores, how many items of clothing
are in your wardrobe 18 years after
they were bought? It is impossible not to have some
impact on the environment, but we say buy
better, buy less, and really really
love what
you buy.
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