There's a version of this brand that scales. Bigger runs, lower margins per unit, distribution into every department store that'll have us. We've done the maths. We're not interested.
The thing about making three hundred of something is that you can actually look at all three hundred. You can pull the ones with a wonky stitch. You can wash a sample to see how the dye settles. You can hold the finished product in your hand and decide, honestly, whether it's good enough to put your name on.
Scarcity isn't a marketing trick when it's the natural consequence of caring. If we made more, we'd care less about each one. That's not a trade we're willing to make.
So drops sell out. We know it's frustrating, and we mean it when we say we're sorry. But we won't apologise for making something we actually care about, in numbers we can stand behind. The cap you bought in July will still be in rotation in 2036. That's not a sales pitch — it's a promise. We care too much about what we make to ever do this any other way.