The Underwear Project

Two people working together at a sewing machine in the Shanghai workshop.

We made the underwear we couldn't find.

This started as a personal problem. Everything out there was made to be looked at, or made to disappear so completely it fell apart in a season. Nothing was just built for the person wearing it — comfortable, quiet, made to last. So we spent a year and a half making it ourselves, and this is the part most brands don't show you: how it was actually made, and by whom.

Thread spools on a worktable in the workshop.

Softer than modal. Which is already soft.

It's Lenzing micromodal — finer and more refined than ordinary modal, soft in a way you notice the first time and holds its shape long after cotton would give out. Cotton breathes but stays damp. Synthetics dry fast but don't breathe. This does both. We tried a lot of fabric before we let ourselves stop. Now in the Low Waist Hipster and Seamless Shortie.

Paper pattern pieces on the cutting table.

Fifteen women. Nobody reported a wedgie.

The real test of a cut isn't how it looks flat — it's whether it stays put when you forget about it. We put every version on fifteen different bodies, worn through ordinary days. Not one rode up. Not one crept. That came from a patternmaker reworking the shape one measurement at a time, until fifteen very different people all forgot they had it on.

Hands inspecting a fabric sample at a sewing machine.

No stitching. Nothing to show.

There are no sewn seams anywhere on this pair. Every edge is bonded, not stitched — which is why nothing shows under whatever you wear over it. And the bond isn't fixed: it settles to the way your own body moves, so it gets more comfortable the longer you wear it. Most underwear wears out. This one wears in.

A sample being measured by hand in the workshop.

The first sample was not this pair.

Not even close. Fifteen women wore each version through real days and told us what was wrong — where it slipped, where it pinched, what changed after a wash. Every note became a change to the pattern. We stopped counting the versions somewhere along the way. This is where the pair actually began.

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