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Welcome

Cats and Poems is a micro redesigner studio located at Folkestone, UK.

We create unique jeans, dungarees (or overalls), and cute pinafore denim dresses. Each pair of jeans is sourced from second hand or thrift shops (we don’t really need to make more jeans with the absulute humongous amount of clothing produced every day). The sourced jeans are washed and deconstructed before the creation process begins.

Each pair of jeans contains pieces of denim skirts, other pair of jeans, new fresh denim, cool fabric, at least one phone pocket, and hand painted cat and a poem written by a local artist.

Sustainability and Community, these are the two values we embrace very deeply. We aim to make the world a better place by helping others.

The Story Behind

Cats and Poems

It all started with buying the wrong size of jeans… I really liked them, but they were too small, so, I did what anyone with a sewing machine and good pair of scissors would do: alter them. I ended up creating an early design of what my daughter calls jivans (Ivan’s Jeans).

I used that lovely Dia de Los Muertos fabric, and between the fabric, the pockets and the other additions to patch the jeans, I ended up creating a very nice pair of jeans.

While wearing my jeans or jivans, people used to praise them: an old lady came to me while walking to the dog to tell me she really loved my jeans 💜 which I really appreciate. Friends kept telling me that I had to sell my jeans, so, here we are, my humble attempt to sell nice jeans with cats and poems.