Does this sound familiar? You’re riding your bike, doing the “Downward-Facing Dog” pose in yoga class, or reaching up to grab something from the top shelf at the supermarket… and suddenly your shirt rides up to an unwanted height, exposing parts of your body you’d rather not reveal in public. With this extra-long style, that’s a thing of the past. It extends past the hips, tucks comfortably into pants or a skirt, and its form-fitting cut creates a feminine silhouette without feeling restrictive. Elemente Clemente The long-sleeve shirt is made from a skin-friendly single jersey of certified organic cotton that feels pleasantly light and soft against the skin. The cuffs and hem are neatly folded over and finished with flatlock seams, while the crew neck is edged with a finely ribbed collar. A simply beautiful and comfortable long-sleeve shirt that looks just as good worn on its own as it does under a slipover, a vest, or a blazer.

The Munich-based fashion label Elemente Clemente, founded in 2002 by Clemens Dörr, focuses on minimalist and urban fashion characterized by high-quality materials and superior craftsmanship. The collections are manufactured—from the fiber to the finished garment—at partner companies in Poland and Tunisia. The label’s primary goal is the thoughtful use of resources. Every single garment is crafted with great attention to detail—using natural fibers such as linen, hemp, virgin wool from certified organic livestock farming, and cotton from certified organic cultivation. Innovative fibers such as Lyocell (TENCEL™) and recycled materials are also used. Elemente Clemente stands for timeless, forward-thinking fashion—far removed from fleeting trends—that can be worn with a clear conscience.

The linen fibers used by Elemente Clemente come exclusively from Europe and are harvested there using the traditional field retting process. In this process, the cut and scutched stems of the flax plant are laid out in a field. During the retting process, which lasts several weeks, the pectins in the plant stems dissolve naturally with the help of microorganisms, and the solid woody components separate from the fibers. The separated components serve as natural fertilizer for the soil. The long fibers are then extracted through mechanical breaking, beating, and scutching. Field retting is a resource-efficient process that alternatives such as water retting or chemical retting cannot match. This is because these methods require large amounts of water and energy and place an additional burden on the environment with chemicals.

Staining of light-coloured clothing, furniture and other objects is possible.