Sustainability

We don't order big batches of stock up front and hope it sells. We print in small runs, close to when things are actually bought.

That's not a marketing position, it's just how a small shop works. But it does mean the single biggest source of waste in this industry — clothes that get made and never sold — mostly isn't ours to create.

Our printing is done in the Coachella Valley, by Snake Drive Screen Printing. Not overseas, not across the country.

Same reason as everything else on this site: we live here. A shirt that gets printed twenty minutes from where it ships doesn't spend two weeks in a container first.

Plenty of brands put a page like this up and fill it with words that don't mean anything. We'd rather tell you where the gaps are.

We haven't audited our blank garment supply chain. We're not making claims about our inks, our packaging, or our power. We hold no certifications. If we start doing any of that properly, it'll show up on this page with specifics — supplier names, ink types, actual numbers.

Until then, the two things above are what we can stand behind, so they're the only things written here.

If you want to know something specific about how a particular item was made, ask — hello@desertcities.cc. If we don't know, we'll say so.