Everyone knows it: You get caught on something or the washing machine’s spin cycle is set too high, and suddenly there’s a hole in your shirt. Sometimes it’s simply the moths to blame. Other times, we ...

Amid a fast-fashion landscape in which so much can be easily produced, some consumers long for something special — merchandise personalized by human hands.

Rather than the sound of Bow bells, I was born to the whirring of sewing machines in my ear. Throughout most of my childhood, my mother did piecework while my father worked in a sweatshop opposite the ...