We've turned our factory into a spa - a steam room to be exact. We are learning to love the often overlooked, but oh-so-necessary tools of the trade (and the inspection table) - the steam iron and the steamer. To be honest, I didn't really know we needed these things. I just thought product came off the sewing line looking super perfect and professional and went right into a bag. Nope! Here's how that's done. 

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"We need a language", Sarah so perfectly put it. And we sure did - a production language that everyone could understand. 

After unsuccessfully looking around the internet, it became clear we would have to develop our own factory language. The Youniverse doesn't have a single production manager, so we needed a language that empowered everyone in the factory be autonomous and directive of their own projects

Here's what happened this week while we created one. 

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Turns out the Ambition Anorak is aptly named, after spending a year developing it with three different factories. But in order for you to fully understand just how excited we are about it (and just how special it truly is) we have to take it back to 1996.

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For the last month our team has been putting in immeasurable effort to build our own production. It's been wild, chaotic, exciting, frustrating, and pretty magical.

And what we've realized is that this kind of stuff NEVER gets shared with the public. We live it every day so we think it pretty freakin' cool. So each week, we're gonna share a snippet of our journey with you.

Here's what happened this week at the Youniverse.

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