We have analyzed the pricing of natural fiber sweaters made by known Lithuanian brands.
Ten or fifteen years ago, many upcoming Lithuanian fashion labels emphasized their origin and received extra support partly because of the implied national pride attached to domestic production. Today, the locus of attention has shifted substantially towards other qualitative aspects.
As late as the early twentieth century, in the interwar period, there were about 1,5 million sheep in Lithuania.
A single, Kaunas-based textile factory, Drobe was acquiring around 3 mln kg of wool from the local farmers a year.
Today, there are less than 200 thousand sheep in Lithuania, most of which are grown for meat, and total wool production isn't reaching 500 000 kg a year.
We decided to start a new project and enable our customers to buy and sell their preloved clothes and accessories made by Lithuanian brands at Baltas Miskas boutique in Vilnius.