Who made this

Union made

Every DRESS garment is union made in the United States. Cut, sewn, and finished by people working under a collective bargaining agreement: wages they negotiated, benefits they negotiated, and a grievance process with teeth.

That phrase gets used loosely, so here is the strict version. Most political merch calling itself union anything is union printed. Somebody in a union pushed the ink, and the shirt underneath came from whichever factory quoted lowest, usually a few thousand miles from here. Union made covers the garment itself. It costs more to do, that cost sits in the price on purpose, and we are not going to pretend otherwise on a hangtag.

The fabric

Weight and construction first, price second. Nothing here is chosen because it was the cheapest thing that would take an ink.

Six-ounce jersey rather than the 4.5 oz a promotional tee runs, ring-spun so the surface takes ink cleanly and the collar recovers, and 12 oz duck on the tote because a bag that holds groceries has to hold groceries. You can feel every one of those decisions in the first ten seconds of wearing it.

No warehouse

Your garment is made for your order, which means there is no pallet of unsold DROP 001 headed for a shredder in January. Burberry's 2017/18 annual report disclosed destroying £28.6m of its own unsold goods in a single year, and that was ordinary practice until the number became public. We are structurally incapable of it, which is a better guarantee than a pledge.