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Treen

A sustainable clothes shop over two floors on St Stephen Street, founded by Cat Anderson in 2018, for women's and men's clothes made with care.

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Welcome

On a corner of St Stephen Street, the shop's windows show dresses and jumpers on rails, with a sign by the door inviting you in and cyclists passing on the cobbles outside.

Visited and photographed by Simon Hird

Inside, it is bright and uncluttered. Rails of shirts, jackets, dresses and trousers circle a curved white counter and white plinths of folded knitwear, and floating wooden shelves carry backpacks, caps, trainers, jeans, socks and a handbag or two. Candles and skincare line a plastered wall. A black spiral staircase winds down to the floor below, and a curtained fitting room with rough stone walls opens through a doorway framed in reclaimed wood. The staff are glad to help with sizes and styling. Have a look downstairs before you go.

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Clothes, shoes and accessories for women and men, and lifestyle goods, from brands that favour natural fibres and fair manufacturing.

Open seven days a week, with the staff on hand for styling advice.

Where
12 St Stephen Street, Stockbridge.

Opening hours

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Monday
10am–6pm
Tuesday
10am–6pm
Wednesday
10am–6pm
Thursday
10am–6pm
Friday
10am–6pm
Saturday
10am–6pm
Sunday
10am–6pm

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Treen's window reads a killer wardrobe without killing the planet in gold lettering, with jumpers hanging on a rail behind the glass.
Did you know

A killer wardrobe.

Its motto, lettered in gold on the window, is a killer wardrobe without killing the planet.

The treen shopfront window reads shoptreen.com above a rail of clothes and the words a killer wardrobe without killing the planet.
Did you know

An idea from Hong Kong.

Cat Anderson first thought of treen while working for a fashion brand in Hong Kong, a market that loved cashmere and leather, and found her values did not match her job.

A pale patterned dress hangs in treen's corner shopfront window beside a rail of folded clothing and the shoptreen.com lettering.
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From the plate to the wardrobe.

Going vegan in 2015, after a lifetime as a vegetarian, made her rethink what she wore as well as what she ate.

A black spiral staircase descends beside a rail of shirts and jeans, with shelves of caps and accessories in treen's boutique.
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Three months to begin.

It started as a three-month pop-up a few doors along St Stephen Street, while it looked for a permanent home.

Two backpacks, folded clothing, a cap, trainers and jumpers are arranged across floating wooden shelves beside a rack of checked coats.
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Opened on World Vegan Day.

The permanent shop at number 12 opened its doors on the first of November, World Vegan Day.

Two backpacks, folded clothing, a cap, trainers and jumpers line floating shelves beside a checked coat on a rail.
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On St Stephen Street in Stockbridge.

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