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Underwear Donated Per Item Sold
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Making a Difference
Underwear is the most under-donated clothing item and tops the most urgent needs list at most domestic violence shelters and sexual assault clinics. It was obvious that we could help in such a simple way. Not only would underwear donations make a someone feel comfortable and clean, but would restore confidence in their everyday lives. For every item sold, we donate a pair of underwear to women and organizations in need.
In the Community
For every item purchased, we donate a pair of underwear to a woman in need in domestic violence shelters, homeless shelters, rape clinics and disaster relief situations. We fulfill domestic and international urgent donation requests regularly. Through your orders, we've donated underwear to over 8,000 women in over 45 organizations and eight countries!
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Terracotta: Our New Hand-Dyed Cutch Dye Collection
Our new cutch-dye collection is now live! This beautiful selection of terracotta bamboo and lace fabrics is naturally hand-dyed from the wood of ancient cutch trees. We contracted a local maker in Kansas City near us, Alyx Jacobs, to dye the entire collection by hand.
We love the natural color shades in the collection and know you will too! Learn all about this natural dye, its rich and beautiful history, and why it’s one of our favorite collections to date.
What is cutch?
In general terms, cutch is a type of wood. Cutch comes from a small, thorny tree that is native to Asia. These trees have yellow flowers, leaflets and small thorns.
The wood itself is a rich, soft brown color that many people associate with the traditional color of terracotta.
Cutch comes from a small thorny tree of the Leguminosae family and it is native to Asia. The leaves consist of multiple pairs of leaflets and the flowers are yellow and mimosa-like. The trees are cut after 30 years of growth.
In many ancient traditions, cutch has been used for a variety of purposes, including for medicinal purposes. For medicine, parts of the tree such as the twigs, bark, and wood are used to treat digestion issues or as an astringent for pain, bleeding, and inflammation.
Because of its rich history, cutch goes by many names depending on where you’re located and what you’re using it for.
Other names include:
- Catechu
- Black cutch
- Cachou
- Cashoo
- Terra Japonica, or Japan earth
- Katha (Hindi)
- Kaath (Marathi)
- Khoyer (Assamese and Bengali)
- Kachu (Malay)
Cutch dye
Cutch dye has been used in India since ancient times. The dye is made from soaking the wood in hot water until it reaches a sort of syrupy consistency. That syrup is then cooled and pressed. After it is dried, the material is ground up until it turns into a powder that can be used for the dyeing process.
Cutch wood dyes a variety of colors in the burnt orange/terracotta/salmon family. It’s what makes the color khaki, or khak—an Indian word for dust, earth, and ashes. In history, this color has been used to dye military uniforms because of how well it blends in with the earth around it.
Cutch is so important to Indian tradition that the largest district in India, the Kutch District, is named after it.
Why we love it
Because of its rich history, cutch dye is special for many reasons. One of the reasons why we love cutch dye so much is that it mimics the beauty of our natural world. The rich browns, beautiful burnt oranges, and soft salmons are very flattering on most people and go well with pretty much any type of style.
We also love how perfectly imperfect it is, just like nature! Due to the natural dye process using wood from ancient cutch trees, beauty lies in the imperfections.
Since these products are locally dyed individually by hand, most pieces have imperfections from the dye such as: splotches, tie-dye-like appearance, color inconsistencies, stiffness, etc.
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Visit Our Backyard
Come visit our special events, outdoor concert series, and tye-dye workshops in our lush-vined and treed backyard space of our flagship store in the Kansas City Westside neighborhood.
Backyard Concert Series: April 15th
featuring Nicki White
Our ever-popular backyard concert events are back! This year, we're doing a whole series EVERY Third Thursday from April to September. We're one of the few intimate outdoor concert venues in Kansas City, right in the backyard of our Westside KC flagship store! Lush trees, strung lights and local music set the scene...come join the vibe!
Swap/Shop/Mend Event : April 22nd
Earth Day Backyard Event
A free and local exchange event!
Bring pieces from your closet that you're tired of and swap with pieces someone else brings! One (wo)man's trash is another's treasure!
There will also be racks of vintage and biodegradable clothing for sale. Bring your holey jeans and other favorite pieces for mending.
Backyard Concert Series: May 20th
featuring Broderick Jones
Our ever-popular backyard concert events are back! This year, we're doing a whole series EVERY Third Thursday from April to September. We're one of the few intimate outdoor concert venues in Kansas City, right in the backyard of our Westside KC flagship store! Lush trees, strung lights and local music set the scene...come join the vibe!