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The Files
Design files / Sourced + cited / From the development room
The design files.
Five files on why garments fail — armholes, grading, fade, chafing, raw edges — and how ours are engineered not to. Every claim sourced and cited.
File 01 · Fit engineering
The armhole geometry.
why does the armhole always show everything. What an armhole actually has to do, the three ways it fails, and the geometry that fixes it.
File 02 · Grading
The three-size problem.
what's my size, then. One base pattern, photocopied at three zoom levels — why no size on the rack agrees with a body that lifts.
File 03 · Fabric
Fade, explained.
why did this fade so fast. Dye chemistry, fiber choice, fabric weight — fading is decided before laundry day.
File 04 · Liner system
The liner system.
why do all my shorts ride up and rub. Chafing is friction physics, not a body flaw — and the 2-in-1 liner is the engineered fix.
File 05 · Edge engineering
The raw edge.
why does my cut-off never sit right. Curl, ladder, flare — the textile science of raw knit edges, with respect for the scissors ritual.
Scared But Alive / The design files[We never restock]
