joolee. Chicago.

Most clothing is made everywhere and nowhere — at scale, in factories whose names you will never learn. Joolee is the opposite of that.

She sews every piece herself, by hand, in Chicago — one of the independent makers still producing clothing in the United States. She works mostly in linen, in painterly prints she draws rather than borrows: loose florals, abstract shapes, the occasional nod to Matisse or Miró.

Her quilting jackets are pieced and finished one at a time, no two quite alike. What you're buying isn't only a linen dress or a jacket — it's a share of the finite hours of the one person who made it.