ORICLOTH / EVERY PATTERN CUT TWICE
Each Oricloth garment is drafted as two versions from one pattern: the piece you wear, and the piece built for someone living outdoors — reinforced, weatherproofed, and delivered through shelters, not sold. Buy one, and its counterpart ships the same week.
01 / THE MODEL
Donated clothing usually fails outdoors — it can’t be washed easily, it has nowhere to secure a phone or ID, it falls apart after a week of daily wear. So the give version isn’t a spare of the retail piece. It’s drafted from the same pattern but rebuilt for the conditions it will actually face.
RETAIL VERSION
GIVE VERSION
02 / CATALOG
The function is the story — a jacket that hides your documents, a base layer that fights hypothermia. Streetwear styling, technical purpose.
NO. 01
A canvas field jacket with a decoy-zip interior pocket sewn behind the lining, built to keep documents and a phone dry and out of sight.
WATER-RESISTANT · HIDDEN POCKET
NO. 02
A base layer using the same insulation approach as outdoor performance gear, cut and priced like streetwear rather than technical apparel.
INSULATED · LAYERABLE
NO. 03
A reflective-thread overshell designed for visibility after dark, without reading as a safety vest.
REFLECTIVE · PACKABLE
03 / BUILT WITH, NOT FOR
01
People with lived experience of homelessness review prototypes and flag what actually fails first — a seam, a zipper, a pocket placement — before a design goes to production.
02
A rotating cohort works paid roles in sample-making, quality control, and finishing, with mentorship built into the schedule rather than bolted on.
03
Shelters and outreach teams who already know their community set what sizes and seasonal items are actually needed, instead of a one-time donation dump.
04 / DISTRIBUTION
No warehouse drops, no one-off donation bins. Every give-version garment is handed to a shelter or outreach partner who distributes it directly and tells us what to make next.
Outreach partners
Shelter networks
Winter response teams
Community sewing cohort
05 / STAY IN THE LOOP
One email per release. We’ll tell you what shipped, and where its counterpart went.