Fashion Revolution Week 2022 - Money - Fashion - Power

Fashion Revolution Week 2022 - Money - Fashion - Power

March 29, 2022

We have a transparent business model based on equitable working conditions, fair payment, teamwork, high quality and transparency and accountability.  Our mission is to be a force for good in the fashion industry.  To do this, we strictly adhere to the WFTO’s ten standards, including: on time payment, fair payment, living wages, safe and clean working conditions, gender equality, no child or forced labor, skills building, respect for the environment.

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Recommendations for New Ethical Fashion Brands

Recommendations for New Ethical Fashion Brands

March 29, 2022

This is an excerpt of an interview with the WFTO discussing our fair trade practices and business model.  I’ll be posting various excerpts from that interview in a series of blog posts leading up to Fashion Revolution Week , 18-24 April.

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Updates  - Our Jaipur Manufacturing Center

Updates - Our Jaipur Manufacturing Center

May 12, 2021

As many of you know, India is in another covid-19 crisis.  This wave  is bigger and more threatening that the last on all levels. . . .Our company has received an exemption which allows our manufacturing to remain partially open with very restricted staff and working hours. Our staff is actively working to take care of their families and ensure our long term survival.  Yet again, we have found ways to be more resourceful, more resilient. 

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Fashion Revolution - RELATIONSHIPS

Fashion Revolution - RELATIONSHIPS

April 18, 2021

Our relationships across the fair trade supply chain are what make fair trade so different from fast fashion.  Relationships form between raw materials suppliers, manufacturers and artisan producers, brands and end customers.  When each relationship along the supply chain is based on equitable, transparent, respectful communication and trading practices, everyone profits.  The supply chain becomes sustainable on a human level. 

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Fashion Revolution - WE ARE THE REVOLUTION

Fashion Revolution - WE ARE THE REVOLUTION

April 17, 2021

A revolution must inspire deep change, not just talk or virtue signalling. 

We need to work toward a system wherein workers have a voice and have agency in this revolution.

We all need to use our ‘voice’ wisely, respect those without a voice and work to form strong, supportive, sustainable relationships in our supply chains so that workers will be visible, heard and respected.  To collaborate, to see both sides, to learn, adjust, and work toward transparency.

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Fashion Revolution  - RIGHTS

Fashion Revolution - RIGHTS

April 17, 2021

We would like to share more about how we work and our policies around worker rights, all of which involve ensuring equitable relationships, transparency and safe working conditions.

Mehera Shaw is dedicated to hiring artisans from disadvantaged and marginalized communities for the positions of stitching, block printing, and all other related work within our garment and homewares production.

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Updates - A Year of Challenges, Resilience and Hope

Updates - A Year of Challenges, Resilience and Hope

December 16, 2020

Each year I write a brief summary of our fair trade activities, both in relation to our artisan team and our customer outreach and education.

This year, our focus has been almost entirely on keeping our team intact, making sure everyone stays healthy and safe and cutting costs wherever we can to ensure the best outcome for our entire team. 

. . . We have all been resilient. May we all continue to be.  I think I speak for our entire team when I say we are all deeply grateful to everyone’s resilience, perseverance and hope in these times. 

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Fashion Revolution  - Transformation

Fashion Revolution - Transformation

April 19, 2020

Fashion Revolution Week is here. A week is not enough, the revolution must be active every day of the year.   Transparency, accountability, living wages, equitable working conditions are among the many deep changes needed in the industry.

 

These changes are part of an integrated transformation.

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Unprecendented - Challenge, Change, Hope

Unprecendented - Challenge, Change, Hope

April 06, 2020

While the challenges are vast and deep on every level and across the globe, these challenges have again brought many underlying issues to the forefront of our concerns.  Issues which have plagued the garment industry for far too long now: lack of transparency, the need for living wages and equitable relationships between buyers and makers.  It is important actually tackle these issues now.  We need consider and protect the very people growing the food, making the goods.  We need to work together so everyone has enough.

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COVID-19 UPDATES - Join Us in Support of Workers

COVID-19 UPDATES - Join Us in Support of Workers

March 31, 2020

Our manufacturing and block printing facilities are operational and we are currently taking orders.  Our staff are healthy and practicing social distancing.  We have put in place all required and advised safety precautions to main the health of our team. However, our office and in-person working options for custom manufacturing are not available at this time.

Our webshop is fully functional and we are actively filling orders (all of which ship from Chapel Hill, USA).

#fairtrade #staysafe 

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International Women's Day #SheEmpowersHer

International Women's Day #SheEmpowersHer

March 07, 2020

March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global day of recognition of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements—and aspirations—of women. The day is also a call to action to increase equality of opportunity between men and women.

This year’s campaign theme of #SheEmpowersHer is a reminder that we are all in this together and all supporting each other, regardless of nationality or socio-economic status.  

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The reality is women’s empowerment is a gradual process.  In the context of our work, it is a process of skills building and gain responsibility, opportunities.  It takes a community and it takes the support of all individuals.  Everyone matters. 

Respect, diginity, education, opportunity, support matter. 

It takes all this and more.  The reality is, we all empower each other one step at a time.

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Chinese Garden Collection

Chinese Garden Collection

February 21, 2020

Mehera Shaw’s new Chinese Garden Collection, now available in our shop in Jaipur, India, brings the pleasures of a garden to your Spring/Summer wardrobe. Palazzo pants, tees and blouses, circle skirts and flowing dresses will carry through the summer. 

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Fit/Sizing/Care

FIT

Our styles are meant to give room to breath and move.  We use fine tailoring coupled with a relaxed, comfortable fit.

We use a fit guide for each of our styles to provide more information about the fit that was intended.

Slim Fit: a close fit to the body. Regular Fit: a comfortable, relaxed fit with room around the body. Generous Fit: a very loose fit (such as in our oversized blouses) with lots of room around the body for ease of movement.

SIZING

h4XS/ 36

h4S/ 38

h4M/40

h4L/ 42

h4XL/44

h4chest

h435.5 inches/ 90 cm

h437.5 inches/95 cm

h439.5 inches/ 100 cm

h441.5 inches/ 105 cm

h444.5 inches. 113 cm

h44cm extra from body

h4waist

h426 inches/ 66 cm

h428 inches/ 71 cm

h430 inches/ 76 cm

h432 inches/ 81 cm

h435 inches/ 89 cm

h4fitted

h4low waist

h428 inches/71 cm

h430 inches/76 cm

h432 inches/ 81 cm

h434 inches/ 86 cm

h437 inches/ 94 cm

h4fitted

h4hip

h437 inches/ 94 cm

h439 inches/ 99 cm

h441 inches/ 104 cm

h443 inches/ 109 cm

h446 inches/ 1

h44cm extra from body

WASHCARE

All garments have been washed several times during the printing/dyeing and manufacturing process.  

CARE for 100% cotton

We recommend cold water machine wash (up to 30 degrees celsius) with a bio detergent and either tumble dry on low heat or line dry in shade for all of our 100% cotton garments/homewares (except for quilts).  

Iron on reverse side of garment following fabric settings.  

Do not use bleach or stain remover.

Cold water wash and low heat drying or line drying in the shade will increase the life of the garment, prolong the vibrancy of the colors and reduce energy use. Shrinkage on all cottons is minimal, approximately 3%.

Garments/homewares are dyed or printed using AZO free, low-impact, pigment or reactive dyes unless otherwise noted.  These dyes are color-fast, but care should still be taken to wash with like colors to retain the vibrancy of the colors.

CARE for 100% cotton quilts

For quilts with cotton fill, we recommend spot or light surface cleaning only with a damp cloth and mild detergent.  Eco-friendly dry cleaning is also recommended. 

CARE for herbal/vegetable dye items

Vegetable dyes are not colorfast and are specifically marked in the product description.  We strongly recommend that all vegetable dye products be washed once before use in a cold water wash with minimal detergent.  Wash separately. Tumble dry on low heat or line dry in shade.  Iron on reverse side.  Do not use bleach or stain remover.

Please keep in mind that indigo dye does continually fade over time.  This is the nature of true indigo dye and is not a defect, but rather a sign of the 'living' nature of the dye.

CARE for silk and cotton/silk

For our silk and cotton silk garments/homewares, we also recommend gentle cycle machine wash cold water (up to 30 degrees celsius) or delicate hand washing to increase the life of the garment and reduce the environmental footprint from energy use, detergents and water wastage.  

Tumble dry on low heat or line dry in shade.  

Iron on reverse side of garment following fabric settings.

Do not use bleach or stain remover.

Dry cleaning using an eco-friendly service is also recommended.

CARE for linen and cotton/linen

For our linen and cotton linen garments/homewares, we also recommend gentle cycle machine wash cold water (up to 30 degrees celsius) or delicate hand washing to increase the life of the garment and reduce the environmental footprint from energy use, detergents and water wastage.  

Tumble dry on low heat or line dry in shade.  

Iron on reverse side of garment following fabric settings.

Do not use bleach or stain remover.