OSSE°
OF SOIL, SEA, EVERGREEN
000
Five garments. No clutter.· Zero plastic — in product and packaging· Vancouver, British Columbia· No logos outside — one woven label inside· Free shipping across Canada over C$120· Five garments. No clutter.· Zero plastic — in product and packaging· Vancouver, British Columbia· No logos outside — one woven label inside· Free shipping across Canada over C$120·
OSSE — Of soil, sea, evergreen · Vancouver, BC

Five garments, done right.

A tee, a shirt, a sweatshirt, a hoodie, a sweatpant. Thick natural fabric, cut clean, built to outlast trends. No prints, no outside logos — just a tonal degree mark you'll notice and the room won't.

5garments only
0%plastic
480gsmheaviest fleece
1label — inside
Fog moving through a coastal British Columbia conifer forest
Coastal range, BC — where the colour system comes from
The TeeThe ShirtThe SweatshirtThe HoodieThe Sweatpant The TeeThe ShirtThe SweatshirtThe HoodieThe Sweatpant

Thick fabric is the design.

Fig. 01 — House spec
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Jersey weight
Most tees are 140–180gsm. Ours drapes heavy and holds its collar.
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Fleece weight
Sweats and hoodies in dense brushed loopback that breaks in, not down.
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Plastic, ever
No polyester, no nylon, no poly bags. Fiber, paper, and nothing else.
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Coast-to-alpine tested
Every piece worn through two full BC seasons — rain and alpine — before release.

The five. Nothing else.

Catalogue No. 01 — drawn in-house

Small goods. Same standard.

Fig. 02 — Rituals & add-ons

Natural-health pieces that round out a basket — most under C$45, so it's easy to reach free shipping at C$120, add a gift, or go deeper into the daily ritual. Zero plastic, same as the five. The numbered pieces are the other direction: small-batch heirlooms for when you want the best version we can make.

Six colours. Each one is a place.

Fig. 03 — The BC colour system

Field notes.

Fig. 04 — Shot candid, on the coast
Sea-washed day on the Pacific shore
FN-01 Sea-washed days — Tofino, BC
Sunlight through old-growth forest
FN-02 Old growth — the Cedar colourway
Alpine range above the clouds in British Columbia
FN-03 Alpine test range — season 02

"Clothing from a place that still has wilderness in it."

— The OSSE field journal, British Columbia
Fig. 05 — The land we make on

Made on unceded Coast Salish territories.

OSSE designs and sews in Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations — peoples who have stewarded these forests, rivers and coastlines since time immemorial, and whose weaving traditions in cedar bark and mountain-goat wool are among the oldest textile practices on this coast.

You won't find borrowed motifs anywhere in our catalogue. Indigenous art appears on an OSSE garment only when an Indigenous artist puts it there — named, credited and paid on every unit. Appreciation, never appropriation.

The Artist Series — annual

One capsule a year, led by a Coast Salish artist.

Each year we hand one garment from the five to an Indigenous artist as a canvas. The artist keeps creative control; we keep the sewing machines running.

  • 01Artist's name on the garment, the page and the label.
  • 02Royalties paid on every unit, published openly.
  • 03A share of series revenue to Indigenous youth art programs in BC.

Four laws. No exceptions.

Fig. 06 — The OSSE standard
LAW 01

No plastic, ever.

Not in the fiber, not in the thread, not in the button, not in the mailer. If it can't return to soil or be remade, it doesn't ship.

LAW 02

Five garments only.

A tee, a shirt, a sweatshirt, a hoodie, a sweatpant. Refined every season, never multiplied. Depth over clutter.

LAW 03

Priced fairly, always.

Best-grade material at honest margins. No luxury markup theatre, no race-to-the-bottom discounting. The price is the price.

LAW 04

No logos outside.

One woven label inside and a tonal degree mark at the hem. If people ask where it's from, that's the marketing.

Soft Pacific coastline at dusk
Built for skinnot for show
Fig. 07 — Why natural-only

You wear it sixteen hours a day. It should be on your side.

Synthetic fleece sheds microplastics into your air, your wash and your skin. Ours can't — there's nothing synthetic in it. Dense natural fiber breathes, regulates heat and gets softer with every wash, not balder.

Seed to seam,
on the record.

Fig. 08 — Supply chain
01 — Farm

Regenerative fiber

Grown by named co-ops using rain-fed, rotation farming. Soil first.

02 — Mill

Low-impact spinning

Solar-run mills spin long-staple fiber into compact, durable yarn.

03 — Make

Sewn in Vancouver

Cut and finished in audited Vancouver workrooms paying a living wage.

04 — You

Scan the tag

Every garment carries a batch code — trace its full journey before you buy.

O · S · S · E

of soil, sea, evergreen.
MEANING 01 — THE MATERIALS

Of Soil, Sea, Evergreen

Cotton and flax out of the soil. Salt air and the Pacific that tempers every test piece. Wool and cedar from the evergreen coast — and "evergreen" is the promise: never in fashion, never out of it.

MEANING 02 — THE LATIN

Os — bone

The structure under everything. A wardrobe cut down to what holds you up: five garments, thick fabric, nothing decorative. Down to the bone.

MEANING 03 — THE CANADIAN

/oss·eh/

Say it like a Canadian. The mark reads the same way — a sun over the sea over the soil: the coast we make on, drawn in three strokes.

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