Everett Swim

It’s been a week! Pretty pleased to validate our choices on suppliers and materials, so that we can leave no stone unturned in the search for the best. We’ve selected two regenerated nylon fabrics, one for the outer and a super luxe lining - both feel amazing and are manufactured by Carvico Spa using Econyl brand yarns. Together they give the perfect amount of stretch and elasticity to ensure these garments will last and look great for a long time.

Coming soon 😀🩲⏱♻️

We hit a massive milestone this week. Exciting things to come 🩲🩲😬

While turtles are cute, charismatic, and catch our attention, it’s crucial to protect ocean animals and habitats even when we can’t see them so easily.

In particular, for centuries humans have been using the oceans as dumping grounds for waste. They seemed so vast, how could it ever make an impact? Well now we are finding out.

Discarded or ‘lost’ netting entraps marine life all the way up the food chain, and eventually breaks down into microscopic pieces that are ingested by fish and planktonic creatures, or clog gills.

Everett swimwear is made of nylon regenerated from nets like these that have been reclaimed from the sea, and other sources of pre-loved nylon. It shouldn’t have to be this way, but it’s a good start.

📸 by Ahmed Areef, used under licence

🪡🧵What does hand-made even mean anyway?
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The fashion and textile manufacture industry is full of these ambiguous words. For example, ‘hand made’ could still mean a sewing machine has been used, it doesn’t necessarily imply ‘hand-sewn.’ ‘Hand-crafted’ is also unregulated. And ‘machine-made’ doesn’t mean a garment has been made by robots. One is not better than the other either, but of course hand-sewing, or ‘sewn-by-hand’ takes longer and is very labour intensive, but allows for incredible attention to detail.

Hand-made on a machine is much faster, but that doesn’t mean a person needs less skill! A good sewing machinist uses a lifetime of expertise, with the efficiency and mechanical consistency and less risk of repetitive strain injury.

So, ask the questions. If your clothes say hand-made, hand-crafted, or hand-sewn, ask yourself whether the price seems reasonable in terms of the labour cost. Seek out these answers to hold the industry to account. If there is no information at all, there’s a good possibility your clothes may have been made in sweatshop conditions in a country where transparency and human rights aren’t a high priority.

That’s why we decided to create our swimwear locally in Australia, so that we could actually meet the people involved in creating our product, and be able to trust that everything is above board, and that we’re using transparent unambiguous terminology to describe how things are made.

We also use manufacturers and suppliers who are accredited by Ethical Clothing Australia - which provides us with the confidence that these issues have been addressed independently.

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Fish are friends! These divers are saving a friend from some ghost netting. Ghost nets are lost or discarded from the fishing industry. There are efforts all over the world to help educate about why throwing waste into the ocean isn’t responsible.

In the meantime, we also need to clean things up!

Recycling the materials from end-of-life nets provides a valuable incentive to not throw them away, and a source of nylon for products like Everett!

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Our vision is to provide the most sustainable swimwear in the world. Let’s be honest - there are lots of brands already making an effort. However, most, if not all, of these take a big ticket item in the supply chain and use that to claim the entire garment is sustainable.

While we’re sure they have good intentions, it can lead to confusion and greenwashing, which is a huge problem across industries and especially in fashion.

Everett on the other hand takes the opposite approach. We care about the details, and every tiny component of our supply chain, and the raw ingredients that went into each product. Even if there are environmental compromises, we want to be able to transparently communicate that to you, and over time, improve our buying power which helps us leverage more sustainable decision-making.

Additionally we want to be certain that everyone involved in the supply chain is being paid fairly and is working under ethical and non-toxic conditions.

We hope you enjoy understanding more about how and where your clothes came from, and who was involved along the way.

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“Smoulder” - an homage to charred landscapes. Wispy smoke from eucalyptus oils, and scorched earth.
Super hot fires aren’t desirable, but certainly we need the slower, cooler, perfectly timed fire and smoke to manage Australian ecosystems.

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Moments of greenery in urban landscapes are always welcome. In the future, perhaps it will instead be moments of concrete amongst greenery?

📸 by S Taylor

The fires started two years ago. How long will they burn the inevitable next time?
As the world lurches from crisis to crisis, ‘resilience’ has become a buzzword.
But too often, the need for resilience is applied only to human communities.
The environment also needs resilience, but as an increasing number of human-caused threats chip away at that resilience, it’s likely the next big shock will wipe out areas of the environment for good.
That’s why it’s not enough to address climate change; it’s also important to fix plastic pollution and air particulate pollution, deforestation and habitat destruction, clearing for houses and also greenwashed resource extraction. All of these chip away at the ability of the ecosystem to absorb shocks.

Our swimwear is not going to save the planet, we get it. But by showing that it is possible to take a details-driven no-compromises approach to sustainability, and raise funds for real restorative and regenerative projects, we can make a big difference.

📸 of the Blue Mountains, used under licence.