About Sewn

Sewn started as a complaint.

We build maternity clothes at Emme Mama — natural fiber, cut for a body that changes every week. And our customers kept telling us the same thing after they'd stopped being pregnant: I'm still wearing these. Not out of nostalgia. Because a linen pant that fits well is just a linen pant that fits well.

So we made the rest of the wardrobe. Same fabrics, same construction standards, no bump.

We're not loyal to one fiber

Linen breathes, cotton gauze softens, ramie holds a line, wool handles a cold room. Each garment gets the fiber the garment actually needs, and we tell you exactly what that is — fiber content, weight in grams per square meter, how it behaves after five washes.

If you want to know why a fabric drapes the way it does, that information should be on the product page. On ours, it is.

The full library is on our fabrics.

You lead the making

Our factory holds the fabric on the roll. Nothing is cut until someone orders it, which means the demand comes from you rather than from a forecast we made nine months earlier. It takes longer than pulling a box off a shelf — that's the trade.

What you get for it: every size available in every fabric, no garment produced that nobody asked for, and no clearance rack, because we have nothing to clear. The piece you receive was cut for your order. It isn't special-order tailoring, and there's no serial number on it — but it wasn't sitting in a plastic bag for eleven months either. More on how that works.

Where it's made

Made in China, at the same factories that make Emme Mama, by people we've worked with for years and visit. Your order ships to you directly from there. We say all of this plainly because vagueness about manufacturing is usually hiding something.

Start with one piece. Wash it. See how it moves after a month.

— John, founder, Emme Mama & Sewn