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Portuguese Cotton

Portuguese cotton, in three qualities.

Fibre
100% cotton
Cloth
Portuguese
Qualities
Soft cotton, baby ripstop, stripe
Range
Three shirts, an overshirt, two trousers
Made in
Portugal
Portuguese Cotton
The story

Three qualities, all 100% cotton and all woven in Portugal. The soft one does the most work: a relaxed trouser with a drawstring at the waist, and an overshirt that zips rather than buttons. A baby ripstop lays a fine grid over the same fibre, cut as a regular-fit shirt with a chest pocket. The third is a small stripe on that same shirt block. Nothing is blended in for stretch or handle anywhere in the group.

Why choose it

For the pieces you reach for without thinking about the cloth.

01

Three qualities, one fibre

Soft cotton, a baby ripstop and a stripe, all on 100% cotton with nothing blended in.

02

Portuguese cloth, Portuguese make

Every quality here is woven in Portugal, and every garment is put together there too.

03

The same cloth, cut two ways

The soft quality runs as a drawstring trouser and as a zip overshirt.

Portuguese cotton, baby ripstop grid
Portuguese cotton, baby ripstop grid
Transparent pricing

One piece, every euro

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

Alex Soft Cotton PA01005-NVY
Alex Pants €124,00
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What you pay for

Alex Pants: €124 here. €179 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
€22,00
Making
€18,00
Trims
€2,00
Transport
€1,00
VAT (21%)
€21,52
Our margin
€59,48

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 (400-700RPM)
Do not tumble dry
air dry
Iron inside out
low or medium heat
Do not bleach
colour holds

Made from Portuguese Cotton