Despite the challenges of 2020, Easy Living Hats experienced a spike in online sales. Whether it was because more people were shopping online during the pandemic, or more folks were venturing outside and needed a good hat: our product sales grew faster than we could make them!
At the end of 2020 Easy Living Hats secured the perfect workspace in the Fall Creek Neighborhood where we can expand our production and distribution space! And we can now offer contactless, local pick up.
By opening a workspace, our local team of artisans now have a place to work and we can produce hats at a larger scale. We hope that a professional facility will serve not only as a place to produce hats but also lead to creating more job opportunities at our business!
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Easy Living Hats is a sustainable hat company based in Ithaca NY. I started this business as a self-employed maker and up until 2019 I was making each and every hat myself.
I have always been a big hat lover. When I was in my 20’s I lived on the sunny West Coast and I was always crushing my favorite straw hats. So I decided to use my skills of crocheting and make a sun hat that would be more flexible and packable.
Years of research and testing has gone into designing Easy Living Packable hats, as it had to meet 3 important factors:
* Sustainably made,
* Affordable,
* And wearable for all women.
Oh and it had to be packable!
This design is not only innovative, but practical: it will stretch to fit any size & it can be worn in any season!
Easy Living Hats now partners with a textile developer in Peru to provide naturally-dyed, organic cotton fiber. And we have expanded our local team to include other crocheters who help make the hats! Each hat purchase not only protects the wearer, but it also brings joy and financial freedom to the lives and women who create them.
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To continue to produce hats and provide a safe workplace for our employees we are trying to raise $15,000 for a small facility build-out.
Your contribution will start the development of our workplace: repairing the floors, repainting the space, building custom shelving for storage & organization, creating workstations and offices for our team, and a community space with displays for local shopping which are all necessary for our business to successfully expand.
As a single mother, I am thankful for the #HatFam and all the support that I have received for Easy Living Hats. Easy Living Hats are designed to help protect the adventure seeker from the elements. That way, all you should worry about is enjoying the moment and environment that you are in. Easy Living Hats is at the cusp of an exciting new adventure and like any other journey it is better when shared.
We hope you will consider donating to our Campaign to help this woman-owned, sustainable hat company grow and take business to the next level.
I need you #HatFam!
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As of February 2020, Olivia was announced the winner of Tompkins County FAB 5 Young Professionals Entrepreneur of the Year Award, modeling how hard work and innovative thinking during a Pandemic not only brought potential growth to this small business but also shows how qualified Olivia is to grow her hat brand. Our community supports Olivia's small business and we hope you will too!
