1330 S Santa Fe Ave, Suite 102
Los Angeles, CA 90021
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Your Friends Tee × Essentials Made
Your Friends Tee is Brittanie Malkin's private label collection — garment-dyed 100% cotton hoodies, sets, and tees developed exclusively for boutiques. Essentials Made manufactures the collection in Los Angeles. The collection, the curation, and the boutique relationships are entirely Brittanie's.
If you are a boutique owner looking to carry this collection — reach out to Brittanie directly. Essentials Made is the manufacturer behind the scenes. Your Friends Tee is your contact, your partner, and the face of this program.
Are You a Boutique Looking for This Collection?
This is Your Friends Tee's private label collection — developed by Brittanie Malkin exclusively for boutiques. Essentials Made manufactures it in Los Angeles. All boutique inquiries, availability, minimums, and terms go directly through Brittanie.
Become a StockistThe Collection — Built by Brittanie Malkin, Manufactured in Los Angeles
Brittanie Malkin spent years running a showroom in Los Angeles — building direct relationships with boutique buyers across the country. She knows what boutiques want before they do. When she created Your Friends Tee, she built it around one conviction: boutiques deserve a private label collection that feels as premium as a major label but tells a cleaner, more personal story. Garment-dyed. Made in California. Built for the boutique customer who shops with intention.
Your Friends Tee is not a logo brand. It is a quality brand. Every drop is built around the same premise — garment-dyed essentials in muted, tonal colorways that feel personal from the first wear. Navy, sage, slate, cream, mocha. Colors that do not compete for attention. Colors that boutique customers reach for again and again — and come back to reorder.
"Shopping small brands is a vibe. Garment dyed. Made in California."
— Your Friends Tee, @yourfriendstee
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The Collection — What Essentials Made Produces for Your Friends Tee
Your Friends Tee runs a tight, cohesive private label collection — no excess styles, no throwaway pieces. Every garment has a reason to exist. Essentials Made manufactures every piece in Los Angeles to the standard that makes boutique customers keep coming back for the next drop.
Silhouettes
Cropped hoodies · Matching shorts · Tees · Sweatpants · Full sets
Fabric
100% cotton fleece and jersey — PFD prepared for dyeing
Colorways
Mocha · Cream · Navy · Sage · Slate — garment-dyed to Pantone TCX
Production
Cut, sewn, and garment-dyed in Los Angeles — reorder by reorder
Compliance
SB62 compliant — fully ethical LA manufacturing
Program Type
Ongoing private label production — multiple drops per year
The signature piece of the Your Friends Tee collection is the cropped garment-dyed hoodie — developed from a fit Brittanie already loved, replicated and engineered for 100% cotton garment-dyed production in Los Angeles. The mocha colorway became a signature — rich, warm, and dimensional in a way that only garment dyeing on 100% cotton fleece produces. The cropped hoodie and matching shorts set defined the brand's visual identity and drove its earliest boutique sell-outs.
Two Lanes — Boutiques Through Your Friends Tee, Independent Brands Through Essentials Made
Essentials Made and Your Friends Tee operate as a clear partnership with distinct lanes. Understanding which lane you are in tells you exactly where to go next.
For Boutiques
Access to the Your Friends Tee private label collection is managed entirely by Brittanie Malkin.
Become a Stockist →
For Independent Brands
Building your own brand on garment-dyed 100% cotton essentials? That is what Essentials Made does directly.
See how we work →Made in California is not a footnote for Your Friends Tee — it is a core part of how Brittanie talks about the brand to boutique buyers. Every piece is cut, sewn, and garment-dyed in Los Angeles. SB62 compliant. Ethically produced. The story of where the garment was made is as much a part of the product as the fabric itself.
This Is Your Friends Tee's Collection — Not Ours
Brittanie Malkin built this private label program. She owns the boutique relationships, the curation, and the brand. Essentials Made manufactures the garments in Los Angeles. If you are a boutique owner — Brittanie is your contact. Apply directly to become a stockist.
Become a StockistThe Manufacturing — Private Label Production in Los Angeles
Every Your Friends Tee piece goes through the full Essentials Made development and production process. Pattern drafted from a reference garment. Shrinkage compensation engineered into every panel. A garment-dyed pre-production sample approved before bulk production begins. Then cut and sew in Los Angeles, garment-dyed to the exact Pantone TCX target, enzyme and silicone washed, and delivered.
This is what private label clothing manufacturing in Los Angeles looks like when it is done correctly — a product the boutique buyer picks up, feels, and immediately understands why it costs what it costs.
Essentials Made manufactures for independent brands across the USA.
Boutique access to the Your Friends Tee collection is exclusively through Your Friends Tee.
Two different lanes. Two different contacts.
Are You an Independent Brand — Not a Boutique?
If you are building your own brand on garment-dyed 100% cotton essentials — hoodies, crewnecks, sets, sweatpants, or tees — Essentials Made works with you directly. Your Friends Tee is proof of what that looks like. The same manufacturing. The same process. Your brand, your label, your audience.