About Monocore

The everyday t-shirt, rebuilt in bamboo.

I have the kind of skin that argues with most fabrics. Cotton is fine until it's wet. Polyester is a non-starter. Linen is a luxury, not a daily option. A friend, half-joking, handed me a bamboo t-shirt and said "try this and stop complaining." It was the first thing in years I genuinely forgot I was wearing. Softer than any cotton I'd owned. Didn't itch when I sweated. Didn't smell when I worked out. I went looking for more in India and found nothing built the way I wanted to wear it.

Monocore is what I wanted to buy, and couldn't.

The fabric does the work

Bamboo is 3× softer than cotton, naturally antibacterial, and holds its shape past 40 washes. We didn't engineer these properties — the fiber already has them. Monocore just builds bamboo t-shirts that let those properties show.

What we promise

Lab-tested fabric. Made in India by a small team in Delhi. Free shipping over Rs. 999. Seven days to return anything that doesn't feel the way we say it does.

Try one. Wash it. Wear it. Then decide.

— Nitin Makkar, CEO, Monocore

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