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Indigo Cotton

One indigo cotton, woven as a denim twill.

Fibre
100% cotton
Made in
Portugal
Weave
Smooth denim twill
Dye
Indigo
Indigo Cotton
The story

Indigo behaves differently from other dyes. It sits on the outside of the yarn rather than soaking through, which is why it fades at the fold and the elbow instead of washing out evenly across the shirt. There is one cloth here: a smooth denim twill in 100% cotton, cut slim with a widespread collar and made up in Portugal. It runs in three colourways. All of them lose colour in the first washes. That is the fabric doing what it is supposed to do.

Why choose it

For a shirt that gets better looking the more you actually wear it.

01

Ring-dyed indigo

The dye sits on the surface of the yarn, so wear shows as fade rather than as damage.

02

Cut as a shirt

Slim through the body, with a widespread collar.

03

One cloth, three colourways

All of it 100% cotton, made up in Portugal.

Indigo denim twill, 100% cotton
Indigo denim twill, 100% cotton
Transparent pricing

One piece, every euro

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

Specialist Denim Cotton SH90161-IND
Specialist Shirt €99,00
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What you pay for

Specialist Shirt: €99 here. €139 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
€15,00
Making
€12,00
Trims
€2,00
Transport
€1,00
VAT (21%)
€17,18
Our margin
€51,82

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, mild detergent (400-700RPM)
Do not bleach
wash with similar colours
Do not tumble dry
dry it in the air
Iron inside out
at medium heat

Made from Indigo Cotton