MADE IN USA
In 2024, Tender moved home and production from Gloucestershire in the UK to Pennsylvania, in the USA. Rather than operate long-distance, new seasonal garments are sewn close to our new home. While the design and pattern cutting remain in-house, there is a particular character and personality to different countries’ production: making and designing in parallel, in the same location, seem to lead to products with more integrity and coherence.
One of the reasons that Tender’s clothes have their own special feel is the selection of machines used. Clothes sewn in the UK were largely constructed with feed-of-the-arm single-pass felled seams. In the new US factory these machines are not available, so garments are sewn with single-needle sewing machines, making seams that are slightly flatter and more elegant. On the other hand, as the seams are constructed with two sewing passes judged by eye, the stitch lines are not quite as even and regular, adding a slightly different humanity into them.
Clothes made in the USA have a woven label with a blue size number.
