Bobo Choses

The best childhood

Go back to the 70 – 80s with Bobo Cho­ses. Child­ren’s clot­hing with fun prints and a vin­ta­ge look. The Spa­nish brand aims to give the child com­fort and hap­pi­ness. In such a way that the child can deve­lop in com­ple­te freedom.

Eco

Bobo Cho­ses not only cares about the well-being of the child, but also the well-being of our pla­net. Tha­t’s why the brand does its best to be as sus­tainable as pos­si­ble. The coll­ec­tions have a vin­ta­ge look through ​‘gar­ment dye’. This means that they knit GOTS-cer­ti­fied white cot­ton, then cut and stitch in Por­tu­gal and after that the almost finis­hed gar­ment is colou­red in Oeko­Tex-cer­ti­fied ​‘dye hou­ses’ in Por­tu­gal. The brand is gra­du­al­ly repla­cing the mate­ri­als for the dura­ble ver­si­ons, such as orga­nic cot­ton and recy­cled poly­es­ter. For the SS20 coll­ec­tion 62% is made from GOTS-cer­ti­fied orga­nic cot­ton, for the baby coll­ec­tion this is 66%. 

58% of the cot­ton yarn of the SS21 is GOTS-cer­ti­fied cot­ton. Of the SS21 baby coll­ec­tion 92% of the cot­ton is GOTS-cer­ti­fied and for the kid’s coll­ec­tion it is 88%. The brand is slow­ly sub­sti­tu­ting its mate­ri­als for sus­tainable alter­na­ti­ves, like bio cot­ton, recy­cled cot­ton, recy­cled poly­es­ter, linen, cup­ro and LENZING™ Lyo­cell. Recy­cled cot­ton is used for the den­im pieces. 

The out­doors clo­thes are trea­ted with a water resistant pro­duct from BIO­NIC FINISH ECO and the poly­bags con­tain biode­gra­da­ble pla­s­tic. Even more, the clot­hing is eit­her GOTS or Oeko-tex cer­ti­fied. This way the garm­ents are com­ple­te­ly free of che­mi­cals and the­r­e­fo­re safe to wear. 

The past five years Bobo Cho­ses decreased their car­bon foot­print by 7.4% and the water con­sump­ti­on by 30%. The brand is con­stant­ly taking steps to make their eco­lo­gi­cal impact as litt­le as possible. 

Fair

The brand works with a Code of Con­duct that all the sup­pli­ers it works with must com­ply with. They regu­lar­ly visit their sup­pli­ers to check on this. 

Bobo Cho­ses also likes to work local­ly, as 98% of the SS21 coll­ec­tion is pro­du­ced in Spain and Por­tu­gal. Snea­k­ers are made in Slo­va­kia.

Bobo cho­ses works tog­e­ther with the Red Cross and some other social orga­ni­sa­ti­ons to help fami­lies and child­ren in need. They work for exam­p­le on sum­mer camps. 

Transparant?

Yes! Bobo Cho­ses ans­we­red our ques­ti­ons about the pro­duc­tion chain. For exam­p­le, we know that the tex­ti­le is GOTS-cer­ti­fied, but the final pro­duct does not pass the final gar­ment-dye step. We got all cer­ti­fi­ca­te num­bers through and could veri­fy each fac­to­ry. The brand gets 90% for Transparency.

Circulair?

Unin­ten­tio­nal­ly per­haps, but becau­se 66% of the ​‘gar­ment dye’ coll­ec­tion is made of GOTS orga­nic cot­ton, the brand also uses cot­ton sewing thread. Often the wax labels are made of Poly­es­ter so that they remain white in a dye bath. This means that, with the excep­ti­on of the labels, the gar­ment is almost made of one mate­ri­al and is the­r­e­fo­re easier to recy­cle after a series of wearings. 

The brand laun­ched their ​‘ico­nic’ coll­ec­tion in 2021, a line that is even more eco­lo­gi­cal­ly respon­si­ble pro­du­ced with upcy­cled mate­ri­als from pre­vious coll­ec­tions, recy­cled cot­ton, natu­ral dye and of which old designs and prints are reu­sed. The clot­hing of Bobo Cho­ses is so tim­e­l­ess that it can be pas­sed on from gene­ra­ti­on to generation.

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Com­for­ta­ble jump­suits, colourful socks, roman­tic dres­ses, prin­ted T‑shirts and so much more, Bobo Cho­ses has ever­y­thing your child loves. Look below whe­re you can find this cool brand.