Dress - Long Sleeve

A long sleeve dress with a build your own difference.  All our dresses come with side seam pockets as standard but if you prefer not then just let us know in your checkout notes and we can keep these out for you.  Available in 3 lengths, with 4 neck style options, 2 arm style options and if you want to, add on a swag style hood.  We are pretty sure you have never seen anything like this before, freedom to make it like you love it!

Available in the four iconic Element colours and available in all three of our unique fabric qualities which have woven by us in our mill in Scotland.  We give you more, with access to the full range of options direct from our planet and people first design archives.  These are our bad-ass books of how to always wear your values and look amazing!  See full details below.

What It's Made Of

• Made with 100% finest natural merino wool
• Spun and dyed in Scotland
• Woven into tartan fabrics by us at our Highland mill
• All labels made from hand cut and laser etched Scottish leather

Who It's Made By

• Made by bad-ass womxn and men of the Scottish Highlands 
• Proudly preserving century old textile skills and machinery
• Also proudly disrupting the world of future clothing, we have seen the past and it works!

• Size – Made to Measure, please specify your preferred dress length, your maximum bust size and note down the widest hip circumference. These sizes are so that we can make you the best fitting dress you have ever owned. Your dress will be made to order, then despatched within 2 weeks of the fabric being woven during the 4 X A Year batch period.

• Length – you can select from our three dress lengths. The length in inches listed is from the top of the dress to the bottom of the hem. We have a short at 33”, a standard at 38” and a long length of 43”

• Max Bust & Widest Hips – we ask this to make sure that this dress follows all your form comfortably. As this dress is made from woven wool there is a little give but we would not want it to be too tight. So, where your hips are larger than your bust then we would use your hip size to guide us for the overall dress width.

• Neck Style & Opening – you can select from any of our neck heights in the drop down, all of which have a maximum of 24” head circumference opening

• Sleeve Sizes & Length – with our dress you can either go for the skinny style arm which is 19” in length from the arm top to cuff. It has a tapered fit and this is where we need your bicep size in inches to make sure we have one that gives you the look you are looking for. Or you can select the batwing style arm which is 17.5” from the arm top to the cuff

• Fabric Design - The Elements of Endurance Tartan, designed by us!

• Weave Design - repeated throughout the fabric is the alchemy element symbols, earth, air, water and fire, represented in triangle form.

• Fabric Repeat – all fabric has been cut by hand from the cloth roll woven at our mill, therefore aspects of the repeat will be unique to each item, which is pretty cool as it makes them all unique!

• Colour Options - Earth (brown), Air (grey), Water (blue) and Fire (red), each element tartan features four colours from the colour family it represents.

• Fabric Weight Options - Medium (compact and cosy), Heavy (dense and structured), Light (open and delicate)

If you need any help with working out your sizes, then check out our Measure Me Size Guide

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