Sustainability

The most sustainable garment is the one you wear for ten years instead of one. That’s the principle behind every NORTHFIELD piece.

Materials

We choose materials that hold up: long-staple cotton that resists pilling, wool from heritage Italian mills, leather from Tuscan tanneries that have been operating for generations. We don’t use polyester blends in our knitwear or natural-fiber pieces because synthetics shed microplastics every wash.

Manufacturing

Our factory partners are certified for fair labor (BSCI, SA8000) or are family-run operations we visit twice a year. We pay our suppliers on time and at full agreed prices — no last-minute pressure to cut costs by cutting corners on workers.

Production scale

We produce in small batches — typically 200 to 500 units of each style. We re-order based on what sells, rather than placing massive speculative orders that end up at outlet malls or in landfill. Roughly 90% of our inventory sells through at full price, compared to industry averages closer to 40%.

Packaging

We ship in 100% recycled cardboard, recyclable kraft mailers, and tissue paper made from FSC-certified pulp. No plastic poly bags. The hangtags on our garments are seeded paper — plant them and they grow into wildflowers.

What we don’t claim

We’re not carbon-neutral, we don’t have B-Corp certification, and we don’t run an in-house recycling program. We make clothing for a living and we’re trying to do it as honestly as we can. The most meaningful thing we do for sustainability is make pieces that last — so you buy one, and you don’t need to buy another.