About Us
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Derby and I moved to San Diego in 2016 and what a change it was! We moved from land locked Atlanta and suddenly we were living at the beach. Derby and I even began sporting the same sunglasses and we both got matching blue mohawks!
Life was good - in fact it was “all good, all the time” which became a motto we live by.
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There was something missing though. For anyone living here in Southern California you know that when the sun goes down we all - people and dogs alike- can use a good hoodie! Finding a hoodie for me was pretty easy, but getting one for Derby was difficult with only limited choices.
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Inspiration for the Derby California brand started one night at our local Ocean Beach Farmers market. We met a guy who runs his own small business and he specializes in tie dye. Now, this isn’t the tie dye you think of from summer camp. His patterns have a way of marbling color to create sophisticated patterns and unique one-of-a-kind pieces. I commissioned a dog hoodie and everyone loved it.
Now, 4 years later and after making sure to come up with colors and styles that are “all good, all the time,” our Derby California Brand Tie Dye hoodies have become a reality.
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Now your pup can have an original handmade tie dyed Derby California hoodie!
We’ve got 5 unique and distinct color styles and we’ve got sizes ranging from XS for your little lap dogs all the way up to 7XL for your really big four-legged pals.
You can get a matching hoodie for yourself so you can show everyone that you and your pup are the two best friends that anyone can have.
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Derby and I love surfing and we started participating in dog surfing competitions, We’ve made lots of great two-legged and four-legged friends and it’s been a great way that we can give back to our community. We’ve been fortunate enough to meet and work with the amazing humans behind the Helen Woodward Animal Center - a non-profit organization that provides education and therapeutic programs for people and humane care and adoption for homeless animals. Help us help them - For every hoodie that we sell $1 will go to the Helen Woodward Animal Center! You can check them out at animalcenter.org