About Zavery

Made to be the finest thing in her wardrobe.

Occasion wear for girls — designed, cut and stitched in our own Mumbai atelier since 1996.

Since1996

Cutting fabric by hand in our Mumbai atelier

Every pattern is drafted and cut in our own atelier.

Who we are

The Zaveri family began making ethnic wear for girls in Mumbai in 1996. Thirty years on, that family has grown into a team of more than fifty, and the clothes reach over three hundred stores in fifty cities.

Now we bring it to you.

Same patterns, same cutting table, same hands at the machines. What changes is that the piece arrives at your door, and that we finally get to tell you how it was made.

Thirty years. One floor. The same hands.

What we believe

Every pattern begins with her.

A girl has her own proportions. Most occasion wear for children starts as an adult design and gets made smaller — the same neckline, the same weight, the same silhouette, on a child it was never drawn for.

So we draw it for her. Every block in our library is drafted for a girl's shoulders, waist and length. The silhouettes are chosen to look celebratory on a child, not grown-up on a small one.

And we build it to be worn. She will sit on the floor, run through a mandap and eat two plates of dinner in it. The inside of the garment gets the same attention as the outside.

How it's made

Slowly, and in one place.

Every piece begins with our own patterns. We have been drafting and correcting them since 1996 — a library of blocks built for a girl's shoulders, waist and length, and revised season after season as we watched how they fell on real children. Every line in them is our own.

Fabric is inspected metre by metre as it arrives. Patterns are drafted and graded, markers are laid, and every piece is cut, embroidered, stitched, hand-finished, pressed and checked under one roof. Nothing but the finished garment leaves our premises.

Keeping all of it in-house lets us build the way we want to, rather than the way an outside unit would quote for. Our pieces are constructed, not assembled — panelled bodices, lined skirts, embroidery set into the garment rather than stuck onto it. It is slower, and it is the whole reason the clothes look the way they do.

Everyone who works on a Zavery piece is an adult, employed and paid directly. No child has a place in how these clothes are made, and nothing we make uses animal-derived materials.

30+Years in kidswear

4+Hours spent on every piece

300+Stores that stock us

50+Cities across India

What we make