FAQs

social upcycles and reworks a wide range of vintage clothing. sometimes our upcycling processes create the need for your piece of social clothing to be taken care of in particular ways in order to preserve the artwork. for vintage clothing with hand painted artwork directly on the garment, turn the piece inside out and hand wash or cold wash the garment, then hang the piece to dry. for vintage outerwear or shirts with removable artwork attached, simply remove the artwork, wash the garment cold, hang to dry and reattach the artwork after drying. for vintage shirts that have no additional artwork directly on the clothing, it is likely safe to wash as you would your other clothes, if the garment still has its original tag you may follow the instructions as described, but we always recommend washing your clothes cold and using little to no heat to dry them as the most environmentally sustainable option.  

we are currently stocked at Citizen Supply in Atlanta, and online at The Canvas. we are always looking for more opportunities to share our work with more communities, so if you know of any shops you think we would be a good fit in, send us an email or message us on Instagram 🥰

Social Clothing finds opportunities to donate to nonprofits that are aligned with upcycled collections we have created. For our first two collections we donated 20-40% of profits from our collections to the following nonprofits:   East Yard Communities For Environmental Justice - a Los Angeles based nonprofit focused on environmental justice for black and brown communities in LA. (collection one - a conversation re: environmental justice, told stories about environmental racism through infrastructure and health policy.) 20% of the collection’s profits were donated to EYCEJ.   Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative - an Atlanta based nonprofit “working to build a Black Trans Futurist Framework for practical abolition as the way to liberation”. (collection two: Social Studies, focused broadly on Black Lives Matter, discussing issues such as health policy, environmental racism, etc. that impact Black lives on a daily basis.)   collection three: Audi Alteram Partem, began a new chapter in narrative storytelling for social clothing. We transitioned from primarily hand-painted vintage jackets to our new removable and interchangeable artwork attached to the back of our upcycled pieces.   While this collection is not connected to a nonprofit organization, it has proven a successful test-run for this system which allows increased sustainability for vintage garments that can be updated and customized over time. This gives our clothing a new element of longevity that we feel is innovative within our brand and sustainable wear as a whole.   Our upcoming collection will continue to utilize this new interchangeable system, while also donating a portion of profits to a nonprofit organization as we have before.

social clothing is a team of two; Yssa Mei Panganiban and Cooper Barrett. We have been together for two years, and are both artists. (Yssa Mei is an actor, I can’t say much but, you’ll see her soon on a number of big shows this fall!)