Bitter Grace Story Blog

Our desire and commitment to do things differently, against garment-making norms, have proven to be a complex and challenging process. Here's why... Garment-making involves many variables that begins with the acquisition or creation of the material - raw or synthetic. Raw materials are your natural fibers like cotton, linen, and hemp to name a few. Synthetics include polyester, rayon, and some viscose (unless it's Oeko-Tex certified). The ability to trace the source of these materials has also proven to be difficult and rare. Asking textile mills the simple question - where is the cotton coming from? - has generally been...

Workwear Reimagined was born out of my desire to be able to leverage clothing for any occasion, whether for the office or everyday wear. I wanted to reimagine clothing that can easily be styled from elevated to casual. For us at Bitter Grace, this is sustainable fashion. It is the ability to leverage your clothing investments regularly throughout the week and for them to evolve with you through the years. It is wearability and longevity combined that makes a clothing piece sustainable not only for today, but into the future. For some of us, especially before the pandemic, we invested...

A Message from Anne Marie Some of us view clothing as superficial, materialistic, a waste of money, or disposable - depending on our conditioning. Some of us use it as a tool to overcompensate for the lack of confidence or emptiness we feel within or a mask to hide our insecurities and poor self-image in hopes that no one would find out or reveal the truth behind the mask. But at some point, our inner world eventually shows up in our external world in the most challenging and unfortunate ways that often lead us to change. Some call this "rock...