There’s something quietly reassuring about a good stripe. Crisp, clean and timeless, Seasalt Cornwall’s Sailor Stripeshave become a familiar part of the brand’s collections.
But there is more to some of these stripes than their distinctive Cornish style: qualifying Sailor Stripe products carry GOTS certification.
At Global Standard, we work with brands around the world that choose independent certification against defined requirements for textile processing. Seasalt Cornwall is one of those brands, with GOTS-certified products forming part of its collections.
Seasalt’s first shop sold workwear to Cornwall’s fishermen and artists. Over the years, stripes have become closely associated with the brand’s approach to practical, distinctive design.
The Breton stripe itself has an even longer history. The striped shirt was introduced as part of the French naval uniform in the nineteenth century before finding its way into civilian clothing and, over time, becoming a familiar feature of fashion well beyond the French coast.
For qualifying Seasalt Sailor Stripe products, GOTS certification adds specific information about the materials and textile processing behind the garment.
GOTS-labelled products must meet the applicable requirements for certified fibre content according to their label grade. GOTS then applies defined environmental and social requirements across textile processing after raw fibre production, including first processing, manufacturing and trading.
For Seasalt’s qualifying GOTS-certified Sailor Stripes, certification therefore provides more specific information about the requirements applying to the textile processing behind the finished garment.
A classic stripe may look simple. Behind it are fibres, textile processing stages, manufacturing and certification requirements — all part of the story behind the finished Sailor Stripe.
And that gives us another way to look behind the stripes.
