By Katherine Martinko / Source: Treehugger

This new California-based company is run by two entrepreneurial moms who understand the value of local production, quality fabrics, and reducing one’s environmental impact.

When two mothers from Marin County, California, set out to buy clothes for their young children in early 2014, they were disappointed by the lack of high quality options. Most clothes for babies and kids are made of thin, cheap fabrics, feature garish logos, and lack real style.

The best solution, they quickly realized, was to make their own. Rachel got out her sewing machine and, using one of her husband’s old dress shirts, made a few items that so impressed her friend Melina that the two of them decided to turn it into a business. That is how Petite Marin Children’s Eco Couture Clothing was born.

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