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Cotton Stretch

Three percent elastane. The rest is cotton.

Fibre
97% cotton, 3% elastane
Qualities
Two
Woven in
Portugal, on the straight-leg cloth
Made in
Turkey and Portugal
Fits
Slim and straight
Cotton Stretch
The story

Ninety-seven percent cotton, three percent elastane: that ratio is the whole brief for a trouser you wear all week. The elastane is there so the knee gives when you crouch and the seat keeps its shape by the afternoon. The rest is cotton, so it breathes and takes a press like cotton should. It runs in two qualities on the same blend. One is cut slim and made up in Turkey; the other is cut straight, woven in Portugal and made up there as well.

Why choose it

For trousers you sit, cycle and stand in without thinking about them.

01

Three percent, no more

Enough elastane to move with you, and little enough that the cloth still behaves like cotton.

02

Two qualities, two legs

The slim leg comes from one quality, the straight leg from the other. The blend is identical.

03

One of them is Portuguese

The straight-leg cloth is woven in Portugal, and the trouser is made up there too.

04

Presses like cotton

Inside out at medium heat. It does not go in the tumble dryer.

Three percent elastane in a cotton trouser cloth
Three percent elastane in a cotton trouser cloth
Transparent pricing

One piece, every euro

What one piece costs us, to the cent. Then where the rest of the price goes.

Diego Cotton-Stretch PA90122-NVY
Diego Chino Pants €109,00
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What you pay for

Diego Chino Pants: €109 here. €169 average market price.

Average market price is what a comparable piece costs from a brand that sells through other people's shops: department stores and multi-brand retailers. That price has to carry the brand's margin and the shop's margin, stacked. Ours carries one.

Materials
€18,00
Making
€14,00
Trims
€2,00
Transport
€1,00
VAT (21%)
€18,92
Our margin
€55,08

Margin is not profit. It goes to getting the piece to your door: shipping, returns, the warehouse. Then to running No Label: the team, the stores, the fit sessions, the photography. What is left goes into next season's fabric. On sale pieces there is often nothing left at all, because overstock is money sitting in a warehouse and we would rather it moved than marked up.

Care

Wash at 30°C
inside out with similar colours (400-700RPM)
Iron inside out
medium heat
Do not tumble dry
air dry instead
Do not bleach
keeps the colour even

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