A) a hot new women’s clothing line
B) a nineteen-year-old tabby cat
C) a Dublin street musician of yore
D) a place where people get together and watch old movies
E) New York’s source of Japanese Tenshi Neko and Minmie tote bags
F) New York’s source of Pomelo Press and Allyn Howard tees
G) a party spot
H) a place to get Japanese pajamas and Thai slips
I) a place where you could reasonably expect to see arial dancers or an umbrella woven of electrical wire
J) the latest in Alternative Apparel tee shirts
K) the place to find eccentrically beautiful board games designed by John tk
L) a dedication to the element of surprise or
L) a place to wait for a table at Buttermilk Channel
M) a shop that appears to vanish when it's closed, it's window displays giving way to fogged glass
N) all of the above.
Our dresses, skirts, kerchiefs, neckties, and jewelry are made by us either in the back of our Brooklyn storefront or within walking distance of it. We are a crew of five soulful craftspeople: a pattern maker, a grader, a cutter, and three seamstresses. Check out our slideshows to see how we make our clothing, how we wear our clothing, and what inspires us! We gift-wrap, and ship anywhere in the continental U.S.
- The Store
- The Clothes
- The Cat
- Ruby Moriarty Artisans
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Design: the Ruby Moriarty collections are designed by Jessica Dineen.
Fabric: we choose vintage or rare fabric. Our sources range from Manahattan to rural Maine to Bangkok. All of our dresses and skirts are limited-edition, and many are made in fewer than one piece per size in each fabric. Except for our pure silk dresses, all of our clothing can be gently machine-washed in cold water, line-dried, and cool-ironed if necessary. One-hundred-percent cotton clothing will shrink slightly.
Production: Our clothes are designed and made within walking distance of our Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn storefront. See our slideshow!
Ruby Moriarty is a nineteen-year-old tabby cat who hangs out on the sidewalk whenever the weather’s good. She was named after a nineteenth-century street musician in Dublin, Ireland, whose father was a concert pianist and whose little dog hung out in the shadow (or out of the way of a soft rain) under her stand-up base. The clothes were named after the cat.
Jessica Dineen (brief description tk)
Sergio and Mary Tk (brief description tk)
Connie Tk (brief description tk)
Maria TK (brief description tk)
Delores TK (brief description tk)
Allyn Howard (brief description tk)
Amy McNamara (brief description tk)
Joe Dorr (brief description tk)
Nicole Cherubini (brief description tk)
Rachel , Pomelo Press (brief description tk)
