Everything Mom Shorts sells is made by one person, at one table, on one machine she has had since 1998. Her name is Lesley and she is my mother.
"I've been sewing since I was eleven. I just never charged anybody for it before."
Lesley JollyShe made my school clothes. She made her neighbour's curtains. She made a wedding dress in nine days once because somebody asked nicely. For forty years the answer to "could you make me one of those" was yes, and the answer to "what do I owe you" was nothing.
I run the business side because otherwise she would still be charging nothing. She makes the clothes. I do the spreadsheets, the emails, and the arguing about price.
It is genuinely the best job I've ever had.
— Alex, her son
Batched in runs of twenty, because cutting twenty at once takes a third off every pair.
Twice, hot, before a single cut. If it's going to shrink, it shrinks on her time, not yours.
Pattern pieces stacked and cut in one go on the big table. This is the part that makes the price work.
Flat-felled seams inside, so there's nothing raw touching you. About an hour per pair once she's moving.
Pressed, labelled, numbered by hand, and wrapped with a note. She signs every one.
Vintage & deadstock. Estate sales, thrift bins, design-house leftovers. Nineteen yards of 1974 towel terry. A box of Japanese cotton she's been saving for six years.
Small American mills. Hemp and organic cotton woven in Bedford, Pennsylvania. When the fabric is American we say exactly where — that beats a flag icon.
Japanese cotton. Bought from US stockists so nothing sits in customs. Every product page names its fabric and where it came from. If we can't document it, we don't claim it.
Your pair will have a number on the tag — number 7 of 24, or whichever one is yours.
See the shorts — $165The list gets in two hours before everyone else. That is the whole perk, and it is the only one worth having when there are 24 pairs.
No discount codes, no spam. An email when a drop is coming, and one when it sells out.
