There's this guy, Gary, down in Texas that grows cotton 100% organically. Their cotton is planted in mid-May and harvested after frost in November. The harvested cotton is ginned at their certified organic gin and then shipped to a certified mill in North Carolina for spinning into yarn. The yarn is also knitted, finished and sewn in the Carolinas. Their products have a pedigree, as they can tell you when and where they were planted and trace their development into a finished product.
I don't mean they do it all in their kitchen. They've created a textile industry around these T-shirts. It's quite an accomplishment to make a T-shirt from seed, sun and water, don't you think?
Anyhow, the t-shirts are nice, 5.75 oz. jersey, standard size to start, sewn with cotton thread, double needle hems and neckline. Natural color, takes dyes very well.
Made in: UNITED STATES (USA)
Not pre-shrunk--shrink 1-2" in chest & 1" in length
Size Chest Length M 38-40 28 L 42-44 29 XL 46-48 30
Average Customer Review
3.43
(14 Customer Reviews)
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MOST HELPFUL REVIEWS
6/4/2008
4
These sgirts dye brightthc cotton is soft and nice quality. Some of the stiching on the inside didn't dye and the shoulders are not taped so the qualitl doesnt seen quite equal to the price. Meriah
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6 of 6 users found this review helpful.
7/9/2014
1
Super bummed that this manufacturer doesn't seem motivated to fix the few design flaws that make these shirts a bad choice. SO CLOSE to having a made in the USA organic option for customers. Wonder why they are avoiding fixing the sizing and neck.... seems like minor fixes to me?
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5 of 6 users found this review helpful.
12/1/2008
4
I love what makes this shirt-organic US grown and processed. All score points for me. Fiber reactive dye looks beautiful rich and warm on this cotton. I do solid color dyeing and unfortunately there is a crease that for some reason runs down the front center and sometimes back center of the shirt. I don't know why the manufacturer can't put this crease along the sides. In the solid color dyeing this crease is visible but not really visible on tie dye. So now I only use this shirt for screen printing which looks great and occasionally dye for friends. I really want to find an organic shirt that I can give 5 stars to!!!
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5 of 5 users found this review helpful.
5/22/2011
2
These shirts dye great. I love that this is an American product and would love to support them but the shirts are too small for PDF garments and the collars are too big almost like a scoop neck. When I calle the company direct about these issues I was brushed off.
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4 of 4 users found this review helpful.
10/6/2009
1
Too small. Ordered a large and it's noticeably smaller than other large shirts.
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3 of 3 users found this review helpful.
MOST RECENT REVIEWS
9/19/2017
5
I have been buying and using this brand of shirt for several years now. Originally got it because it is organic and made in USA. The sizing was always off - a size smaller seemed to be the issue but knowing that I treated the medium as small large as medium etc. I noticed that they are sized larger now. I do not die these I do surface prints on them and they work beautifully for that. They used to be thicker fabric but still thicker than most t-shirts.
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2 of 2 users found this review helpful.
7/22/2016
4
I have used these shirts for at least 10 years and have continued to do so through the ups and downs of the size and design issues. This is the ONLY organic cotton T-shirt grown and sewn in the US that I know of right now and I am proud to keep my carbon footprint as low as possible. Seems like the kinks have been worked out for at least 3 or 4 years so I felt like an updated review was important. ONE HINT though is that I have found that the shirts take my dye bath easier and quicker if they are wet when I immerse them. Maybe not an issue for tie dyers but I do batik....
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1 of 1 users found this review helpful.
5/24/2015
5
I buy these tee shirts because I have extensive dye and bleach allergies and these don't make me itch. Not at all. I've never tried dyeing one and comment about that but these shirts are soft and comfortable and I'm very happy that they exist.
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0 of 0 users found this review helpful.
4/19/2015
5
What a great company and product!
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0 of 0 users found this review helpful.
7/16/2010
4
These run small. Dye nicely.
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2 of 2 users found this review helpful.
7/23/2009
3
The results are good but the sizes don't go with expectations. I'd say everything is a size smaller than what we've come to expect. X-Large is Large at best.
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3 of 3 users found this review helpful.
7/9/2009
5
a little small
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1 of 1 users found this review helpful.
5/15/2009
4
have not washeddyed this yet but they fit nice so far be aware that mine has a definite yellowish cast
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1 of 1 users found this review helpful.
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