People are often horrified to discover that its standard practice for clothing brands to mark up their manufacturing costs by five times or more. So only around 20% of the price you pay for an item actually goes on making it (and it can be less than 10% if you buy from designer brands). That’s because most brands spend huge amounts of money on things like advertising, celebrity endorsements, travel fancy for photoshoots, big salaries and so on.
At Community Clothing we don’t do any of that. We work on mark-ups that are about a third of most other brands which means about 65% of the price you pay goes to the people who make our clothes, put another way you’re getting about three times the value for your money.
Take our Cotton Walking Socks for example. They’re made from premium quality British and Portuguese yarns in a factory in Leicestershire that’s been making the finest quality socks since 1895. These socks cost £3.87 to produce and retail at just £6.50 per pair. That same sock would cost you well over £15 at any other brand.
At Community Clothing we are proud to do things differently. Our innovative business model cuts out most of the usual cost of designing and selling clothes meaning we can sell exceptional quality clothes, made in exceptional UK factories, at surprisingly affordable prices. We’re proud to support amazing local craftspeople, and to help support a thriving local textile economy. We're working hard to localise every stage of the production of every one of our products. And we're very proud of the product we make. We use the finest sustainable natural cotton, wool and linen fabrics and we never compromise on the way we make our clothes. We are confident you wont find clothing this good at even twice the price.
We believe that everybody should be able to buy great quality, great looking clothes that are sustainably and ethically made. So we strive to make every garment we sell as affordable as it can be.
Great clothes, at great prices, supporting local communities. That’s our promise.