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Dedicated to slow fashion: Canadian made, sustainable and custom work
The future of fashion
Creating and designing garments with materials that keep you comfortable in a wider variety of conditions is the goal. Adding functional features that let you push a little harder and smile a little longer on the journey is a result we hope to share.
The future today for Pillar Heights is to continue on a path of of providing good and services that compliment you, society and every other level from macro-cosmo to the totality.
Made In Canada
We work from our studio or with one seamstress and her home based studio on her terms (she calls the shots for hourly wage and hours worked). With her 50+ years of experience and her assortment of tools, we are able to combine our talents to provide something new every time.
Approximately $45 cad from ever jersey sold goes towards our seamstress.
Sustainable fibers
that complement your body
Before Pillar Height there was Lucid Lifestyle, a boutique I (Andrew Gonzalez) used to own. That shop sold a majority of sustainable goods and apparel for 8 years where I was able to gain a wealth of experience on what fabrics and designs worked for the cliente in real world.
Hemp became one of the fibers that stood out after all those years. Amazing in the summer heat and sun, UV protective and durable were just some of the properties just to name a few. I knew just who to contact. A company in China who was well spoken about and already sold quality finished good in my shop with all the right certifications we were looking for. We also use local fabric suoppliers and once in a while dead stock from Fabcycle.ca
Dead Stock fabrics
Sustainable fabrics
Local fabrics
France for enhanced synthetics
Some have said we are ahead of our time with the hemp fabrics. But we're also ahead of our time using the highest quality synthetics polyamides made in France. Price is no barrier for us when seeking the right fabrics while other brands are looking at cutting cost for higher profits and margins they seek generic low quality polyester and nylons. No other cycling brand would use $40/meter fibers but we do and absorb the cost saving you money.
I mean it when I say I'm here to deliver a reasonable priced high quality jersey.
Check out our French toile woven and light weight jerseys for more details.
Thank you for slowing down.
It's a fast world out there, content keeps coming at us faster than it has ever before and unfortunately so do products. Products that are made by raw resources that have an impact. Lot of these products are made by oil based synthetics like polyester and nylon with impacts before, during and after their use with humans. Made by people in factories or home studio who don't always work in the best conditions.
We're here to help, not just you but some of the issues above.
Andrew Gonzalez :)
Shipping, returns and warranties
the friendship POLICY
Shipping
You supported us and we appreciate that and want to take Bare of thiI relationship. As long as things are done in a friendly manner we're here to take care of any issues that arise with quality, damage and any other unforeseen hiccups.
Shipping is free. Plenty of our customers prefer to have things sent the cheapest way. They understand we're small and on a budget.
Returns
We'd appreciate if we split the cost of returns. But no ones in the financial position to just burn money. We'd honestly just be more bummed out that what we made you didn't end up working. We focus on working to make and improving any future items for you through tailoring and and other advice needed to enhance your experience with the final use of our designs. Face mask are not returnable due to their nature of use. We make these at a low price and have designed them to be very versatile and customazable, so we hope you figure out what works for you if you run into any problems with the,. Feel free to shoot us an email.
Warranties
If you're in the Vancouver area it's free fixes and adjustments. Not in the area? We'll pitch in financially for the repairs and send you extra fabric for any repairs you do through your own local tailoring shop.