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Our Quality
Our mission is to provide you with long-lasting shirts that not only make you look great but also create a positive impact on the environment and the people who craft them. Discover what makes CARPASUS quality truly unique.
Organic & low-impact raw materials
We craft our shirts from natural materials like cotton and linen, primarily sourced from organic farming. This means no genetically modified seeds, no pesticides, no herbicides, and no synthetic fertilizers—just natural fertilizers and sustainable crop rotation to maintain soil fertility and protect farmers' health. In fact, all the cotton we use is either organically grown or recycled, ensuring a lower environmental impact.
Quality that you feel on your skin
We work with the best weaving mills in World. They process our raw materials into high-quality fabrics and shirts. Our partners are Portuguese, Belgium, Italian and German weavers that are specialised in the production of shirt fabrics. You can feel the quality of these fabrics on your skin.
We pay attention to environmentally friendly processing in the production of our fabrics. Strong environmental standards must be adhered when dyeing, weaving and finishing the fabrics.
Specialised manufacturers
When processing the fabrics, we work together with European manufacturers who are specialised in shirt production. They purely focus on the production of shirts. Thus, they have all the machinery, the know-how, the experience, the supplier network and the skills to produce high-quality shirts. Our shirts are sewn by our selected partners in Portugal and Bosnia. Find out more about our partners here.
Timeless design
When it comes to choosing fabrics, patterns and cuts we don’t run after every trend but focus on timeless designs. This way you can wear our collections and look great for a very long time!
It's in the details.
No Shrinkage
Our shirts are pre-washed when they leave our manufacturing partners. This means that you will have no bad suprises when you wash your shirts at home for the first time. The shirts keep their shape and their size after the first washing. However, we ask you to you wash the shirts according to our washing instructions and do not dry-tumble them. For more information on how to take care of your shirts, please read our blog post.
Easy-to-care shirts
Our shirts are very easy to care for. They are easy-to-iron and most of them can be washed at 40° C. Our dress shirts are made of light fabrics that underwent a special finishing treatment that guarantees a particular easy ironing expierience.
If you want to know how to best care for your shirts, check out our blog post for recommendations on how to wash, iron and store your shirts.
Mallard duck embroidery
On the left sleeve of our shirts you will find a little mallard duck embroidery. The mallard (French: canard col vert) is the symbol of CARPASUS. The mallard duck lives in harmony with nature on land, in the water and in the air and symbolizes the elegance, spirit, flexibility it needs for working together and living with different cultures.
Corozo Buttons
We do not use mother-of-pearl or plastic buttons. Instead, our buttons are mainly made from Corozo, a natural material derived from the seeds of tagua palms, often known as tagua nuts. For a few of our shirts we use buttons made from bioresin. This is a material made from renewable, plant-based sources instead.
Our buttons are made in Portugal. The white buttons used in most of our shirts showcase Corozo's natural color without dyeing.
Hemline & button whole
The seams of the CARPASUS shirts are very closely sewn and the hemline of the shirts have a gusset on both sides for better durability.
Every last button hole of the CARPASUS shirt is horizontally embroidered in green. This prevents the button from opening while being tucked into the pant. The green color is supposed to remind you of wearing a very special shirt.