Naked Cotton T-Shirts

Naked Cotton T-Shirts

Naked Cotton had its genesis when founder Brandon Levey had trouble finding organic apparel that was "trendy, artistic, and sexy." "It became apparent to me that the only options were dull and rather unattractive clothing that was marketed towards women in their 40s and above," he writes on his Web site. (Trendy, artistic, and sexy 40-plus women, excepted, of course. You know who you are.) Based in San Francisco, Calif., Naked Cotton is completely homegrown. Cotton that is grown on certified transitional and organic cotton farms in the San Joaquin Valley is processed and stitched into shirts in Los Angeles by American Apparel. In Livermore, only water-based inks and adhesives—not icky PVC-based plastisol that gets crusty and cracked—are used to manually hand-print every piece of clothing, so the inks saturate the actual fibers of each shirt. The result? Tees that are as lovely to behold as they are to wear. Check out some of Naked Cotton's designs below the fold. ::Naked Cotton