Factory

Understanding the production process

This has been the biggest challenge of them all, as producing locally is a priority. This way we can engage with workers directly and understand the entire process.

Teaming up

Nightswim, never compromising its core values, sourced for the right factory in Los Angeles. The garment manufacturer located in the pinata district of downtown Los Angeles is a hidden gem that prides themselves in high-quality craftsmanship with a strong ethos built in sustainable and ethical practices. Their services reflect towards a progressive movement taking care of its operators, reducing waste and rejecting unhealthy working conditions, fighting low wages and unethical practices. 

For PAUSA. our second collection, we took matters home — back to our hometown in the southwest desert of Texas — where there was once a thriving manufacturing scene lead by well-known utilitarian brands and then abandoned. This shift within the industry decades back, left behind skilled garment workers. In 2020, our focus shifted to reconnect with our local home town. We are proud to scale back and produce solely on-demand basis. Our in-house sewers are very much hands-on with the entire development process of every Nightswim piece from start to finish. We take pride is paying our in-house sewers approximately 172% above legal minimum wage and 101% above living wage, taking into account the principles of accepted living wage calculation methodologies prepared by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning for 2020-2021. 

 ***Nightswim hereby publicly assures that all apparel, textile and footwear workers in our supply chain, who were paid to produce or handle goods at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, regardless of employment status, will be paid their legally mandated or regular wages and benefits, whichever is higher. This will be assured for the full period of the crisis and contingent on when country-specific government-imposed lockdown have ended entirely. This includes back pay and, where applicable, negotiated severance pay. We will contribute funds of a sufficient amount to ensure that, when combined with other support provided to workers by employers, local governments, and international institutions, workers have income, equal or greater than, the amount they received prior to the crisis. In doing so, we provide immediate much-needed relief for workers, and we act upon our responsibility to prevent and mitigate adverse human rights impacts in our supply chains, and to provide for or cooperate in the remediation of harm. Going forward, we will support stronger social protections for workers by committing to paying a price premium on future orders into a guarantee fund reserved for severance and outstanding wages in cases where employers in our supply chain have gone insolvent, or otherwise have terminated workers, through signing an enforceable agreement with garment worker unions, in line with ILO Recommendation 202, Convention 95 and Convention 76.