Full Traceability

Full Traceability is our transparency standard, requiring us to identify and break out every unique process in the creation of our garments and the exact location of the farms, plants, factories and facilities at which these processes are carried out. We trace our garments by traveling and visiting manufacturers, mills and farms across the world or by issuing questionnaires and collecting verified certificates. Manufacturing and Milling facilities are always visited personally and you can explore them on our Factory Pages here as well as on every product page where we list all documented factories involved in the product. No matter how far we’ve traced a garment, we provide everything we know - and everything we don’t - right here at asket.com and on the Full Traceability label sewn into every garment.

To track our progress, we’ve developed a traceability score, tracking the garments’ major components across the three main tiers of their creation: Manufacturing, Milling and Raw Materials. All minor components (buttons, hardware, sewing thread) are grouped in a fourth tier: Trims. Each garment and its components is then split into the individual sub-processes within these four tiers. For instance a fabric’s milling tier can consist of yarn twisting, spinning, dying, fabric weaving and finishing. Up to six processes, per component and tier, that are traced and rated according to how much we know of the subprocess. Finally, we weight and sum it all up to arrive at our traceability score.

With about 40 unique garments in our permanent collection, there are close to 1000 processes and locations, spread across the whole world, that we’re tracking down - a nearly impossible task. To put our work and knowledge into perspective, a 2018 study found that 30% of brands don’t know where their clothes are manufactured, 82% don’t know where their fabrics are milled and 93% don’t know where their raw materials come from. With our scoring system, that puts the industry at just 28% traceability.