About Tessel
Basics, in the weights and fits you’ll wear every day.
Tessel is a small design studio in Los Angeles. We make thirty-odd basics for women and men, in a few colors each, and bring them back every season in the same cuts. When you find your size in a tee, it stays your size.
01
The same cuts every season
We change a pattern only when a fit is wrong, not to have something new. A reorder fits like the first one.
02
Numbers on every product
Fabric weight in gsm and oz, composition in percent, measurements in inches and cm, and the model’s height and size.
03
Free size exchanges
Not sure between two sizes? Order one. If it’s wrong, we send the other free within 30 days.
Fabric
We start with the weight
Every product begins with a cloth and a number: 180 gsm jersey for a tee that drapes, 240 for one that holds its shape, 400 gsm loopback for sweats. We wash every new cloth five times in the studio and measure how much it moves before it becomes a pattern.
Fit
Fitted on real people
Sam cuts every pattern in the studio and fits each size, XS to XXL, on people of that size before we order a run. If the shoulder sits wrong on a large, we change the large, not only the sample size.
Making
Sewn by partners, checked by us
Our garments are sewn by partner factories abroad, so the label says Imported. Before a run ships, we check samples from it against the pattern: measurements, seams, color against our swatches. A run that is off goes back.
2020
Studio opened in Los Angeles
36
Products, women’s, men’s and accessories
3
Weights of cotton jersey and loopback
30
Days for free size exchanges
“We would rather make the same tee better every year than a new tee every season.”
Dana Reyes · head of product
