Italian basics,woven the old way.
TITTIMITTI® curates Italian luxury underwear, modal essentials, merino t-shirts, and GOTS organic socks — direct from EGI, MaRe, and the small mills of the Veneto.
Two hundred thirty-three pieces. Four mill lines. Eleven named colors. Modal slips, merino tank tops, brushed-cotton fleece long sleeves, organic combed-cotton socks. Italian quality, mid-tier prices ($10 to $73). For women, men, and kids.
Our mission is to revolutionize the luxury underwear market.
— TITTIMITTI® · in their own words
The named colors, in Italian.
Twelve colors from the TITTIMITTI® cartella. Mimosa is for spring; Italian Plum is for autumn; Noir is for every season. The names are not marketing — they are how the mills label the cones in Veneto.
Four fiber blends, four mill specialties.
What's actually in the garment, in the percentages we put on the label. Italian millcraft is unusually transparent — these are mill-published blend ratios, not marketing rounded estimates.
EGI Modal Essentials
Beechwood-pulp modal — softer than cotton, wicks better than silk. EGI's modal program is the brand's flagship; the slips and camisoles in this collection are what the brand built its reputation on. 92/8 modal/elastane is the standard recovery blend.
MaRe Cotton-Wool Blend
Brushed cotton on the inside, merino on the outside — the Italian mens-undershirt classic. MaRe weaves this blend at 180–200 gsm, weight enough for shoulder-season layering, light enough to wear year-round in temperate climates.
EGI Merino Wool Blend
Inverted blend — merino dominant, cotton supporting. Used for short-sleeve t-shirts and sleeveless muscle tanks designed to be worn against skin in cooler months without itch. IWTO-grade merino at 18.5–19.5 micron.
TITTIMITTI® GOTS Organic Combed Cotton
Sock and kidswear program. Combed-cotton sock yarn certified to GOTS organic standard — the world's most-rigorous organic-textile certification. Children's socks blended at 98/2; adult socks at 100% combed cotton with reinforced toe-and-heel. Made in Italy.
One curator, four Italian mills.
TITTIMITTI® is the curator and US importer of record. Every piece in the catalogue is woven, knit, and finished in one of four named Italian mill lines — sourced direct, not through wholesalers.
Twelve pieces from the catalogue.
EGI Luxury Cotton Women's Briefs (2-Pack)
$16
EGI Modal Spaghetti-Strap Camisole
$30
EGI Modal Lace-Trimmed Full Slip / Chemise
$50
EGI Modal Tulle Top — Long Sleeve
$40
EGI Merino Wool Blend Men's Short-Sleeve Tee
$50
MaRe Brushed-Cotton Fleece Long-Sleeve
$35
MaRe Cotton-Wool Blend Men's Tank
$20
MaRe Merino Wool Blend Men's Muscle Tank
$30
TITTIMITTI® Organic Combed-Cotton Women's Socks (3-Pack)
$30
TITTIMITTI® Organic Combed-Cotton Men's Socks (3-Pack)
$30
TITTIMITTI® Virgin Wool Toddler Thumbed Mittens
$30
Basic Cotton Free Spirit 100% Cotton Turtleneck
$25GOTS Organic Combed Cotton
The Global Organic Textile Standard is the world's most-rigorous organic-textile certification — covering both the fiber's organic-agriculture origin and the social/environmental criteria of the entire processing chain. The TITTIMITTI® sock and children's-mitten lines carry GOTS certification on the cotton fiber.
100% Made in Italy — woven, knit, finished
Italian Made-in-Italy law (Legge 166/2009 and Reg. EU 1169/2011) requires that all major manufacturing operations — spinning, weaving or knitting, dyeing, finishing — happen on Italian soil for the Made-in-Italy designation. Every TITTIMITTI® garment, regardless of mill line, meets this standard.
Atelier · Italia
A letter from the curator.
TITTIMITTI® is the work of a curator. We do not own a mill. We do not weave the fabric. We have spent the last decade traveling the small mill towns of the Veneto, Lombardia, and Emilia-Romagna — knocking on the family-owned doors of the people who actually make Italian luxury basics — and bringing the best four lines back to a single English-language storefront.
EGI we found through a sister-and-brother who run the modal program in northern Italy; they have been weaving the same beechwood-pulp modal slip for twenty years. MaRe came to us through a tip in a textile trade fair — a brushed-cotton-and-merino men's undershirt that the trade calls la canottiera classica. Basic Cotton and Free Spirit are siblings of the same Italian cotton mill. Our own house line — TITTIMITTI® GOTS organic socks — is knit at a small Veneto sock mill we worked with for two years before we put our own name on the toe.
Our mission is to revolutionize the luxury underwear market. Translated to plain English: we believe Italian-mill basics — modal slips, merino tank tops, organic combed-cotton socks — should be widely available in the United States at honest mid-tier prices, not as $200 designer markups. The catalogue you see is built to that thesis.
Three letters from Italy.
Primary-source guides on Italian textile mills, modal-vs-cotton fiber science, and how Italian luxury basics actually get made.
Modal Fiber, Explained: Lenzing's 1962 Patent and Why Italian Slips Are Still Made From It
Beechwood-pulp modal vs cotton vs silk vs viscose — the chemistry, the wash-durability data, and why EGI's 92/8 blend is the Italian-mill standard.
GEOGRAPHY OF MFGThe Italian Textile Mills That Make Luxury Basics: Veneto, Lombardia, Emilia-Romagna
Confindustria Moda, the Made-in-Italy law (Legge 166/2009), the Veneto knit-house tradition, and why curator-importers like TITTIMITTI® dominate the US market.
FIBER FRAMEWORKMerino vs Modal vs Cotton: A Base-Layer Fiber Decision Guide for Italian Underwear
Wicking rate, thermal mass, odor-resistance, care tolerance — the data and the decision tree for picking modal vs merino vs cotton in Italian-mill basics.
Le domande & the answers.
Things our customers actually ask — about the fiber, the country, the size, and the price.
Is everything actually made in Italy?
Yes. Every single garment in the TITTIMITTI® catalogue — EGI, MaRe, Basic Cotton, Free Spirit, and the TITTIMITTI® house line — is woven, knit, and finished in Italy. We do not carry "designed in Italy, made elsewhere" product. The standard is set by Italian Legge 166/2009 and EU Regulation 1169/2011, and we hold every line to it.
What is the difference between EGI and MaRe?
EGI is the women's-modal-essentials and men's merino-blend program — slips, camisoles, lace-trimmed underwear, merino t-shirts, wool/silk pieces. MaRe is a focused men's brushed-cotton-and-merino program — undershirts, tanks, long-sleeve fleece tees, the Italian canottiera classica. Same Italian-mill rigor, different fiber specialties.
What is GOTS, and why do you carry GOTS-certified socks?
GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) is the world's strictest textile certification — covering both organic-agriculture origin of the fiber and the environmental/social criteria of the entire processing chain. The TITTIMITTI® sock line carries GOTS certification because socks are the single garment most likely to be in skin-contact for hours per day, and the certification is meaningful for sensitivity-prone customers.
Are the modal slips comfortable in summer?
Yes — modal is a beechwood-pulp fiber with better moisture-wicking than cotton and a lower thermal mass than silk. The EGI modal slip and camisole program is designed as year-round wear in temperate climates, with the lace-trim variants reading as dressier-occasion pieces and the spaghetti-strap variants as everyday.
What sizes do you carry?
EGI women's pieces run XS–XXXL. MaRe men's pieces run S–XXL. TITTIMITTI® socks run by EU shoe-size band (EU 36/38, 39/41, 42/44, 45/47). The kids' lines run by age band. We deliberately keep an extended size range because the European mills traditionally cut narrower than the US standard — we order the broadest size grid the mills will produce.
Why are your prices lower than other Italian luxury underwear brands?
Two reasons. One: we buy direct from the mills rather than through European wholesalers — eliminating two markup steps. Two: we deliberately sell at honest mid-tier prices (most of the catalogue is $20–$50, with the most expensive piece at $73) because the thesis is "Italian-mill basics, widely available." Designer-tier markups would defeat the mission.
Italian basics — the old way, brought here.
Two hundred thirty-three pieces, four mill lines, twelve named colors, one English-language storefront. Modal, merino, organic combed cotton. Italian quality, mid-tier prices, full size grid. The catalogue is open.
Open the Cartella →Curated Sense · Volume XXXV · MMXXVI
