Selective HA

Upcycled from 100% deconstructed and repurposed local clothing waste. Each one, one of a kind -  size 6-12 months, made to be worn during the phases of learning to crawl and walk in dirt, grass, and sand. 

Made as a meditiation on the modern baby onesie and aloha ʻāina (love for the land), each piece took approximately three hours to cut and sew, not including creating the pattern, sourcing the material, etc. When I look at some of my daughter's onesies I am amazed by their perfection, their impeccable finishings, sometimes their embroidery work, and always how cheap they are. Our globalized means of having cheap, perfect garments, is made possible by profoundly devalued labor and production at enormous scale. In today's cothing manufacturing, the math work out, and the scale leads to enormous waste. When following an ʻāina-based model, on the otherhand, nature's abundance is the law, and labor is a sacred bond of kuleana. 

Our masks are made to be reused again and again, which also means they are designed so that the ear elastics can be easily replaced. 

We periodically hold open periods during which we ship out free replacement elastics. Although we are not offering this at this time, we still encourage you to make the simple swap to change out worn elastics and keep your masks going for as long as possible - repair, don't replace!

How: if an elastic has become worn or over-stretched, it can be replaced with another piece of elastic, or even a strip of old t-shirt fabric! To thread the new elastic through the casing use a toothpick, skewer, chopstick, or a loop turner (a very affordable tool used by most sewers found most places fabric is sold), tie a knot at the adjusted loop length, and hide the knot back in the casing.