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About UsAt Savvy Slings, we know a good product when we see them -- which is why are offering exclusively the Hotslings adjustable baby pouch.
About Hotslings
Hotslings.com was founded in March ’03 by Kristen DeRocha – a high school teacher with a sewing machine. She saw a pouch style sling in use at a La Leche League meeting and decided that she had to have one. She had used adjustable slings with rings and tails up until that point and was never comfortable with the tail, and her daughter was an excessive ‘leaner’ in the sling and the rings were constantly having to be re-adjusted. Kristen looked around at pouches and found nothing she liked. So she sewed herself one out of some funky fabric she had around the house. This became her sling of choice. People began seeing her with this groovy pouch around town and wanted her to make them. So she set up a small website and named her designs “Hotslings” to make people think of something fun, easy and hip. Kristen then developed a sizing concept after much trial and error. This concept was something new to the market because there were 7 sizes – which made for a much better pouch fit. Then she added a small section of padding after a customer said, “What can we do about the leg marks in slings?” Kristen remembered how her heavily padded adjustable sling never marked her daughter’s legs. So she figured a little padding in the leg area only would preserve the sleek look of the pouch, but create a cushion for the baby’s knee area. Kristen’s ideas took off and eventually she was able to quit teaching and hire out sewing to create a constant supply of Hotslings. The Hotsling is a copyrighted, original design.
Social Responsibility
Hotslings will always be sweatshop free. Hotslings are manufactured in the USA in Texas and Kansas. The people who make Hotslings are American and paid a fair wage. Much of the fabric used in our products is also made in the USA, and much of our foreign-made fabric is manufactured under fair labor conditions. Most of our scrap fabric is donated to charity.