SASSAFRAS

Clothes designed for gardening, not for looking like it

Based in
Kyoto
Founded
2004
Category
Clothing
Makes
Workwear, Outerwear
Takashi Takagi started SASSAFRAS in 2004 after deciding the surplus military clothing he gardened in could be improved on. The result is garden wear built from work, military and outdoor patterns — apron pockets, tool loops, cuts that assume you are kneeling — which happens to work everywhere else too.

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