Mei learned bathrobe construction from her mother.
Mei's mother ran a small textile workshop in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, through the 1980s. Hotel orders mostly. Bathrobes for harbour-front properties that needed weight. Mei worked her shop floor between the ages of 9 and 14, learning where the seams sit and why the belt-loop placement matters.
The Robe is the piece she'd been waiting to make. She built three prototypes over the spring of 2025 before she found the right terry, a 480 gsm long-loop cotton woven by a mill in Guimarães, Portugal.
480 gsm is what you find in suites at the Connaught and Soho House. The 280 gsm robe Amazon sells you is half the cloth and twice as wet after a shower. The jump from 280 to 480 isn't double the weight, it's roughly four times the absorption.
What's on it: shawl collar that holds under the chin without slipping, two patch pockets both lined in matching cotton, a 200 cm belt that ties cleanly, and inside belt loops set so the robe sits closed even untied. Mei french-seams the side panels because terry loops fray fast if you leave the edges raw.
Two colors. Three sizes.
What you give up: it takes longer to dry. Hang it in the bathroom or the airing cupboard overnight, line dries in 6 hours, tumble dries low in 90 minutes. The trade is the weight that makes you want to put it on in the first place.
- Casa Hush