Our story
Made by people who work nights
OFFHOURS started in 2019 with 120 tees and a folding table. We still make clothes the same way: heavy, slow and in small numbers.
From Mara & Dee
We met on the night shift.
One of us was behind a bar on Ludlow, the other on a loading dock in Red Hook. We would finish around three, eat at the same diner, and complain about the same thing: nothing we could afford survived the job, and nothing that survived the job was something we wanted to be seen in.
So we started with the simplest thing we could think of — a t-shirt heavy enough to keep its shape after a hundred washes — and sold it to the people around us: cooks, drivers, door staff, DJs, nurses coming off lates.
Seven drops later the idea has not changed. We make a small number of things, we make them heavier than they need to be, and we fix them when they break. That is the whole business plan.
— Mara Okafor & Dee Laurent
2019
Founded in Bushwick
3
Partner factories
62k
Orders shipped
1.9k
Pieces repaired
What we care about
Four rules
Made for the late crowd
We design for twelve-hour shifts and what comes after. If it is not comfortable at hour eleven, it does not ship.
Small runs, no landfill
Four hundred pieces or fewer per style. We would rather sell out than mark down, and we never destroy stock.
Fix it, do not bin it
Seams are guaranteed for two years, and the repair bench will patch, re-hem or re-zip anything we have ever made.
People with names
Three factories, all visited every season. We publish who makes what and what they are paid relative to local living wage.
Timeline
Seven drops in
2019
One tee, one night market
Mara and Dee print 120 heavyweight tees in a borrowed unit in Bushwick and sell all of them from a folding table by 2am.
2020
The Last Train hoodie
A year of sampling to get a 480gsm fleece that does not twist in the wash. It sells out in nine minutes and is still our second best seller.
2022
Ludlow Row
The flagship opens on the Lower East Side with a coffee hatch and opening hours built around people who finish work at midnight.
2024
Repairs for life-ish
We start the two-year stitch guarantee and a repair bench at The Depot. 1,900 pieces fixed and counting.
2026
Drop 07 — Night Shift
Our biggest drop so far: eight pieces, first outerwear with recycled down, and reflective prints tested under actual headlights.
Where it is made
Porto, mostly
Our jersey and fleece are knitted, dyed and sewn within forty kilometres of each other in northern Portugal, by two family-run factories we have worked with since the second drop. Outerwear and bags come from a specialist partner outside Ho Chi Minh City.
Free shipping over $150
Worldwide, duties paid
60-day returns
Free in the US and UK
Two-year stitch guarantee
If a seam goes, we fix it
Small runs
Made in Portugal