Stine Jørgensen: Creating Kit for Cold Weather Photography
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In this inspiring episode of the SheClicks Women in Photography Podcast, host Angela Nicholson chats with Stine Jørgensen, the co-founder of Vallerret Photography Gloves. Born from a deep love of snow, adventure and photography, Vallerret is a small, family-run business that has made a big name for itself in the world of cold-weather gear for photographers.
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Stine shares the story of how she and her partner Karl turned their Arctic experiences into a product idea. From their early days working with sled dogs in Alaska and Sweden to spotting a gap in the market during Northern Lights tours, they realised that photographers needed gloves that combined warmth, function and style. With a design background, a passion for winter and a lot of determination, they created their first prototype at home and launched it through Kickstarter. That first glove sparked a growing collection that now includes everything from slim liners to heavy-duty mitts.
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Throughout the episode, Stine talks candidly about the realities of running a small business. She explains how being part of a five-person team means wearing many hats, from marketing to product testing. She also highlights the importance of community feedback and why they field test their gear not only in the snowy hills of Norway but also through a network of ambassadors around the world.
Angela and Stine also discuss the difficulty of producing women-specific gloves in a small-scale operation, and the excitement around the reintroduction of a glove designed for women in the Vallerret range. Stine offers thoughtful advice about how activity levels and location affect glove choice, and why there’s no one-size-fits-all solution in winter photography.
Listeners will hear about Vallerret’s expanding vision, including new insulated vests, outdoor shirts and merino socks, all designed with photographers in mind. Even as the brand grows, Stine is clear that their heart lies in serving the creative community with purpose-built kit that genuinely solves problems.
This episode is an engaging look at how passion and practicality can come together to form a successful business. Whether you're heading to Iceland in the depths of winter or just enjoy a chilly morning shoot, Stine’s story will make you appreciate the gear that keeps your fingers working and your creativity flowing.
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Episode Transcript
Stine Jørgensen 0:05
I don't know if people realise that we're such a small family based company, that we are five people, and the three of us started 10 years ago. It's cool to make things that you are excited about yourself personally to go use.
Angela Nicholson 0:22
Welcome to the SheClicks Women in Photography Podcast. I'm Angela Nicholson, and I'm the founder of SheClicks, which is a community for female photographers. In these podcasts, I talk with women in the photographic industry to hear about their experiences, what drives them and how they got to where they are now. Today, I'm chatting with Stine Jorgenson, the co founder of Vallerret Photography Gloves, a company born from her love of Arctic winters, adventure and photography. Hi, Stine, thank you so much for joining me today on the SheClicks Women in Photography Podcast.
Stine Jørgensen 0:52
Hi, Angela, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.
Angela Nicholson 0:56
Oh, thank you, and you're very welcome. So we first met quite a few years back, actually, at the Photography Show, and at that point, I think you had maybe one line of photography gloves in a range of sizes. And I wonder, I mean, Vallerret has expanded way beyond that now. But how did you get to that point where you were at the Photography Show, selling photography gloves? And why photography gloves?
Stine Jørgensen 1:21
Yeah, I guess that is a big question. Maybe I just jump into it right at the beginning, like, go way back. This year is actually Vallerret's 10 year anniversary. We've been in business for 10 years now, so it's quite like, yeah, for us, it's a big milestone. So I started odd 10 years ago where Carl and I are, my partner and co founder. We've always loved winter. We're like winter geeks. We're not we're chasing the winter the snow and also adventures. So we work with sled dogs and Alaska. And then we went to the Arctic of Sweden for another winter season, also working with dogs. And and up there we started taking tours with tourists. And obviously, when you're in the Arctic, there's the Northern Lights, there's the beautiful sunlight and the snowflakes. We just love it. It's just, yeah, we just always chase winters. It's so magical to us. We're just so happy in winter environments. So up there in Sweden, there was a lot of tourists coming for to do Northern Lights tours. So we would take, like, small teams of dogs out, and we'll go to a cabin, and then everyone takes their cameras out and starts shooting the northern lights we would as well. And we just, we really experienced how difficult it is to stay warm and take beautiful photos in the cold. So there we really saw that challenge. We had our friend Lukas up to visit us as a photographer, videographer. He works with us now our collab manager, so he also told us about and showed us this issue he had, and also told us about the struggle he had to find some good gloves that could do that for him, that could keep him warm and also look kind of cool to fit, you know, his creative edge. And so there was just like, an idea of, Why doesn't anyone do that better, or why isn't anyone making a glove that Lukas, the type of his personality we want to buy, so that it just sparked an idea. And we we were in a in a place in our lives where we were looking for a new challenge, maybe setting up, setting up a business for ourselves, so just kind of looking for opportunities. And this idea just stuck with us, for for for a bit like gloves for photographers that are functional gloves that you can you can wear them in the cold, but you can still use your camera and like and it also would look in a way that it fits creative people's style. There was a lot of fisherman's gloves in the market, and we found that there was, if you take the design vibe from the ski industry, and transfer that to a functional glove that that could be a market, yeah. And so, yeah. So we took that idea with us back to Copenhagen. I'm I'm Danish. Karl is from New Zealand, and we had a base in Copenhagen for for a while. So took that back to Copenhagen and started just, you know, just playing out the idea a bit more as I saw so I made a prototype, just made it in on the sewing machine in my living room. And just, you know, figuring it out. Karl has a design background. I have a marketing background. So we're just like, What can we make happen? And and then I made that prototype, and it was like, this could be something try to started finding manufacturers, and then by that time, we had decided to move to Norway. So we moved to Norway in a even better location to make this product or use this product, and it just kind of went from there when we started getting. Some samples from the manufacturers we found, and we launched the Kickstarter campaign for the one glove, and we saw that there was, was a great response from it. And there was, we said to ourselves, why don't we just do this, make one glove and see where we where we go. And then we quickly realised that different people have different needs. There's so many different types of conditions. Sometimes you only want a thin glove. Sometimes you want a really thick glove. So it just expanded year by year, and also with our own creative juices, like I really want to see that glove out there, and that glove and some likes mittens and a thinner one and a liner. So we've been trying out a lot of different ideas over the years, and then we found now a range that is, I guess, that people like and have, there's enough different choices to for a lot of different people. And still, but we can still, you can always develop even more. Every year we get new ideas that we could do this, this material, this colorway, this kind of blend, but yeah, so that's how it evolved. And all of a sudden we were in in the UK. The UK is a big market for us. So when the photography show reached out to us and asked if we wanted to come, I was like, Yeah, that could be great. And yeah, we love being there, because you get to talk to so many of our customers, that first hand feedback from what they love, what could be improved, and really like, yeah, just talk to our customers. Really. We don't get that experience of that often, other than email back and forth, but like that, in person, response is so great.
Angela Nicholson 6:37
You're gonna be at the Photography Show again for 2026
Stine Jørgensen 6:41
We are, we are. We're coming to Birmingham. Yeah, it's not me. personally, unfortunately, I have to stay home with the kiddos this time. But Karl, my partner and co-founder, and Lukas, our collab manager, will be there to greet everyone, and one of our ambassadors, Lee Gale, is going to join us, to join our store or our stand. Yeah.
Angela Nicholson 7:00
That'll be a really good opportunity for people to try your gloves, because, like you said, you have quite a wide range now, and there's lots of different sizes. And I think one of the issues when you're buying something like that is you really want to try them on.
Stine Jørgensen 7:11
Yeah, yeah, for sure, it's a it is difficult. It's that balance, that too much choice is not great, but you also, there is also a lot of different needs in, um, yeah, in photography and in winter conditions. So, yeah, come check us out in Birmingham. It would be a it'd be amazing to come. Yeah, come see what we have.
Angela Nicholson 7:32
I think maybe, maybe photography gloves are a bit like camera bags. You know, you need a different one for every situation. I cannot tell you how many camera bags I've got, but there's just a ...kind of days, there's slightly cold days, and then those days when you or when you're maybe going to Iceland or somewhere, you know, a big trip, and you really need something nice and warm.
Stine Jørgensen 7:49
Yeah. And then there's activity levels as well, right? So even if it's very cold, but if you're out on active hikes and stuff, you don't need a big, bulky glove. So there's also that you need a match. And, yeah, you should see my glove box. So, like, upstairs, it's massive. I just have so much choice. But yeah, I like it, though.
Angela Nicholson 8:10
Yeah, good. I must admit, I really like your over-mitts. I use those. I used those when I went to Iceland. I'll be using them again in February for an Iceland trip. And yeah, I often if it's really cold or, you know, bit wet, when I'm skiing, I tend to wear those because they're just so convenient. They keep you warm. They're waterproof, and you can just shake them off if you if you need to go hands-free, oh, sorry, get your fingers out, basically. So they're good. But do you think you will reach a point where you think we have enough gloves now, or are you sort of continually trying to evolve them?
Stine Jørgensen 8:42
We take models in and out every year. So this year we have two new gloves coming. There's a woman's glove is coming back in our range. We're so excited about that. And then there's a different like a new mitt that's similar to the over mitt. It's just slightly smaller, so it's more designed for a liner in instead of a glove. So that's coming. The Senja mitt is launched, launching soon, so, and then all the gloves are taking out, like I've been like the Urbex we don't no longer produce, and the Hatchet goes out of production. So we do have that kind of turnaround. We feel like around 10 gloves is a is enough in our range, including liners and so, yeah, so, but yeah for sure. And this year, we are also bringing out some exciting apparel. We have a mountain shirt coming like a very nice shirt for the outdoors with a lot of pockets for your gear, and also a puffer and insulated vest with a lot of pockets, so we're trying to expand in that apparel. And, we have amazing Merino socks as well if you're checking us out. But yeah, so we're trying to still stay within that realm of keeping photographers warm and comfortable in any condition. So we expand. In that way, but it is. There's a small market still, so we're trying to figure out what makes sense. And we tried Merino apparel, like Merino thermal layers for a while, and we love to wear Merino ourselves, but it's a, it's a very expensive material, and and it's, it's hard to get off, get out there, it's hard to sell. So trying to find that balance. And, yeah.
Angela Nicholson 10:22
Yeah, there's some big brands associated with Merino thermal layers. So if you're trying to break into that,
Stine Jørgensen 10:29
Yeah, exactly.
Angela Nicholson 10:29
it's very tricky with the shirts and the was it the gilets, you said the insulated jackets? Will you be? Will you be producing those in women's sizes and shapes as well, or soley men?
Stine Jørgensen 10:41
Yeah, for now, it's just men. Again, as a we struggle a bit. It is a we see firsthand that, well, it's unisex, right? I wear the size small, and just like most of our gloves are unisex sizes. But we do see that some of us females, we have a bit of a slimmer silhouette with hands as well as a figure. It works, but it's not like fitted perfectly to women. Yeah, so we have to start small. We're a small company. We're, yeah, yeah. We're family based company. I like to say there's only five of us working and but we're happy. And, yeah, I think we've, we've found a great little niche that provides for us and great a great lifestyle for us, and we help a lot of photographers out there keeping warm and comfortable. So yeah, we have to find that balance producing small volumes and seeing what works. And we also strongly believe in not just producing to produce, we want to make sure that this vest has a purpose in the world, and that it's not just there among 1000 other vests. So finding that balance of some, yeah, we're just trying.
Angela Nicholson 11:53
And you're sticking with the photography channel, so you're trying to make them useful to photographers, not to the general public, necessarily.
Stine Jørgensen 12:01
Yeah, well, we, we feel that that's where we solve the biggest problems. Like we are softening up our our brain voice to involve more, like all camera users. So try to, to not talk of ourselves as only photography gloves, but camera gloves, including The Videography sphere, the broadcasting world, even mobile phone photography and but still within the creators out there like that love to work on the camera, we feel like that's our niche and where we belong as it is, even though more people like, I use my gloves just skiing as well, and just like using my phone, but we feel like there's so many other people also doing phone photography or touch screen gloves, and then we're competing with North Face on on their regular gloves. And we find that this is our niche. This is our people. This is who we want to talk to and make a difference for and and we include ourselves in that pool. It's called to make things that you are excited about yourself personally to go use, yeah, and then we just enjoy working with this niche, like working with photographers and like minded creators and and we're also starting a podcast this year. Actually, Lukas and Carl is talking to first many of our ambassadors, and just talking about, you know, stories from out there in the cold and what, how, like different takes on, what makes us thrive in this winter environment. And I think that's really what drives us, yeah, yeah. We love what we do in that sense, like working with winter product and creative people around us that that's where we at.
Angela Nicholson 13:42
Given what you said about the different requirements of gloves. And, you know, different fits, different sized hands, how do you actually field test your gloves?
Stine Jørgensen 13:50
Well, a lot as done here in Voss Norway, we take the gloves out and we really use them like we put them to good use for different kinds of of, yeah, all from snowboarding to chopping wood to everything, if we have some like wear and tear tests and that just is done here. But we also have a quite broad network of ambassadors and collaborators that are gifted gloves, often the year before we sell them, to give us feedback so that we can with that they can have their own experiences in different environments. And so we have, yeah, so we test it like that with our own experience, using them a lot like every day through our winter up in Europe, in Norway, but then also through our network and collaborations. So, so that's how we get feedback and on the sizing, and also the, yeah, the function, the functionality.
Angela Nicholson 14:49
And now, if somebody was going to Iceland, say, in the depths of winter, in February, what which glove would you recommend a photographer takes with them? Or would you say, Oh, well, it'd be good to take the. Is three or something?
Stine Jørgensen 15:01
All of them, no. For Iceland, we often have Markov and Tinden, I would say, unless you prefer a mitt, then I would say the Skadi mitt instead of the Tinden. Or our new glove, the Senja mitt is a great one for a deep winter. But most people take the Markov because when they're in Iceland, they go for hikes, and they are they're active. And unless you're standing still to to catch, yeah, the Northern Lights, or the sun, sunrise or something, then I would recommend a deep winter glove. It's really important to think about your activity level when you when you choose your glove, because that has a lot to say with how, how bulk, or, like, how much insulation you need in a glove to stay warm. Because I find that it's a bit annoying to have two big gloves on if you actually could do with less. Because even though you can flip open everything, it's just nice to have something that's only just what you need. No extra bulk, yeah. So, yeah, I'll say a Tinden or Markov.
Angela Nicholson 16:04
Okay, thanks for that. And I'm quite a mitt convert, because the mitts are generally a lot warmer, because all your fingers being together,
Stine Jørgensen 16:12
Yeah.
Angela Nicholson 16:12
really helps you have you have two mitts, I think now in the in your range. Does that reflect the demand for them? Is it that most people want gloves?
Stine Jørgensen 16:21
Most people want gloves. Yeah, they do, yeah. So the Senja. We're gonna keep two mitts in our range, but the Arctic mitt is umm, is going out, and then our new Senja mitt is coming in, so we'll stay with the Skadi mitt is a, is kind of a thinner mitt, and then we have our big mitt, that is the Arctic mitt or the senior mitt that's coming out to replace it, and I think you're gonna love that one, Angela, you should get yourself pair.
Angela Nicholson 16:48
Okay, I'll look out for them. Thank you. Yeah. Do you still get time to go out and take photographs as well as run the company?
Stine Jørgensen 16:57
Do we? It's often a combination nowadays, though, like Karl, just when we we need some content to launch a glove. And this time, we didn't have enough time to to have the final, the last approved sample in perfect condition. We didn't have it timely enough. So it was like to do it last winter. So we had to go out and find some final waterfall, not a couple weeks ago, and take some photos and get the drone out. So that was a really fun day. And so we do a lot of those things where we combine it, where we wait for this. We need some photos of this glove. Let's go to a cool location and do things like that. Or we need some content for this and that. But it's often work related when we're out doing landscape photography. Now, well, for me, personally, what I do for myself is more like travel or family photography, but, yeah, but we do get out a lot. It's beautiful here. It's always when you just turn around the corner and you kind of forget, like, how cool it is. We're we're so stoked. And we had a drone shot. We were not the most experienced drone flyers or drone pilots, so we just got this amazing shot from, from going out, I was standing on the top of the waterfall and and we took the drone out, and just like, just got the perfect, nice shot that really emphasised the size of the waterfall, and we're just so happy. It's nice to get that, you know, excitement, and you come and see something you did afterwards, you're like, Whoa, that was cool, showing your family and your colleagues and yeah, so we do
Angela Nicholson 18:32
And exploring different technologies like drones rather than handheld cameras, to help you get that impact?
Stine Jørgensen 18:41
Yeah, for sure, it's always, it's fun to learn, isn't it? Like there's always new things to to figure out, and what if I do this, and what if I do that? And even I've, I've also tried to get more into being creative, just with my mobile phone camera as well. Just like, you know, there's always a new angles, new compositions to explore, and the best camera is often the one you have all new, right?
Angela Nicholson 19:04
Oh yes, oh yes, yeah, but yeah, drones aren't too keen on the cold either. Their batteries tend to be a bit short lived in very cold weather.
Stine Jørgensen 19:12
Yeah, that's true. I I couldn't tell you too much about it, because I am not so experienced, but so far, we've had a lot of backup batteries, and then it works out, yeah, where I don't, I wouldn't know too much about it, to be honest. But as in the cold with all batteries, yeah, it's an issue, isn't it? Yeah, tend to keep the batteries close to our body and inside our jackets or vest and keep them warm, and then change them when needed.
Angela Nicholson 19:42
Okay, well, let's go to Six From SheClicks. I've got 10 questions from SheClickers, and I'd like you to answer six questions please by picking numbers from one to 10. So could I have your first number, please?
Stine Jørgensen 19:52
Four.
Angela Nicholson 19:55
What thing do you think people would find most surprising about your job? And that question is from Liz.
Stine Jørgensen 20:03
Most surprising, I don't know if people realise that we're such a small family based company that we are five people, and three of us started 10 years ago, and yeah, that we have a couple more who joined us, but I don't know if people realise that.
Angela Nicholson 20:24
No, I don't think so. And the fact that you're featuring in the in the marketing, as well as organising the marketing,
Stine Jørgensen 20:31
Yeah.
Angela Nicholson 20:32
and making your first prototype.
Stine Jørgensen 20:34
We are small. We're a small company wearing many hats and but we like that because it keeps us quite grounded, and we're, like, just an eye level with our customers, and that's a value that we would, that we stick to, that we want to, like, really learn, get to know our customers, know what they want, and be responsive and all that. And, um,
Angela Nicholson 20:56
All right, fair enough. Could I have your second number please?
Stine Jørgensen 20:59
Yeah, seven.
Angela Nicholson 21:00
Number seven, what is it about winter that makes you want to photograph in such cold conditions? That question is from Janina.
Stine Jørgensen 21:09
Oh gosh. To me, winter is just magical, like as soon as the snow falls, it's like there's a quiet that you don't get anywhere else, I think. And the fresh air, the way that the air just fills your lungs in a different way, like even just when the snow first. Snow falls. Here I'm the first one take the shovel out, just out there, just shovelling and just being in it. And then with the light that comes in winter, the gold now is it in winter time. It's just magical. And when you're up here in Norway, we are fortunate to get cold temperatures. So you know, you get the hoar frost on all the small branches of the trees. It's just nothing more magical to me. So the sun reflecting in like a tree that's full of frost, and I don't know what, because it's as long as you dress properly, the right way, the cold is not an issue, then it's just being out there and enjoying it. To me, it's truly magical, like there's nothing I I'd rather surround myself in. I'm not a beach person. I'm a snow person. So I think it's like, either you get that magic or you don't. I have friends that totally don't understand why snow is so magical. But to me, just it fills my body out. I think it's also like, quite it has a reaction to my body being out in the fresh air and the cold that it just makes me feel good at my core. And then in top of that, all the beautiful landscapes you can see, and like all the beautiful surroundings, so that you get it. You get it.
Angela Nicholson 22:51
I get it. Yeah, I was thinking, you know, when I was about 10 or 11, you know, we had a drift in our drift of snow in our front garden. I remember burrowing into it to make an igloo. And I kind of that every time I see snow, that's what comes back to me. You know, it wouldn't make a snowman. Yeah? I love it. I love it.
Stine Jørgensen 23:08
Yeah.
Angela Nicholson 23:09
Okay, so, could we have your third number please?
Stine Jørgensen 23:12
Number nine.
Angela Nicholson 23:12
What modifications do you need to make to your kit in order to photograph in such cold conditions. Well, how should you look after it? I guess?
Stine Jørgensen 23:24
Well, you need, I guess she's talking mostly about her equipment, her camera equipment. So you need to make sure that your cameras, your equipment, stays dry and, like always, close your camera back when you're out in the snow and for instance. And then you need to watch your batteries. Keep your batteries close to your to your body. Often, in like, if you have equipment with small pockets on things like, just like the phone dies quickly, all your batteries will die, like, a lot faster. But in general, with just with the equipment, you also need to make sure, when you take them from inside the hot out into the cold. There's a bit of transition, especially when you go the other way again, so it doesn't fog up. So make sure that you what do you do? Angela, do you, do you take it gradually in? Or do you just,
Angela Nicholson 24:14
I would probably just leave it in my bag and let it acclimatise in my bag before actually taking it out when I go in. It does depend. I mean, for example, in the UK, I've had that experience where we, you know, you go into a glass house, you know, where they're growing plants, and it's really warm and humid. You just have to walk around and wait until that sort of humidity or the camera has got to the same temperature as the building you're in.
Stine Jørgensen 24:39
Yeah, yeah.
Angela Nicholson 24:40
But are you fastidious about keeping your camera? Well, putting your camera back in the bag after you know, you take your shots and say you're going to walk for five or 10 minutes, would you put it back in the bag, or do you leave it out?
Stine Jørgensen 24:52
It kind of depends on what you like. I like to keep it better. Like to put it in as much as I can, especially if the snow is a bit weird. It or like, but it's all about what you're doing as well. Because if you're like, need it instantly after it's always a bit of a balance with, do I have time to put my camera back or like, or is it like? Will it ruin the next moment if I, if I fiddle around too much with that? Yeah, it's hard to balance a find but yeah, and when I can, I put it back and make sure that it stays for me, it's more like it stays dry and like, yeah.
Angela Nicholson 25:27
Okay, all right, so could I have your next number, please? 10. Where has been the coldest place you've ever photographed?
Stine Jørgensen 25:39
Well, that is in don't know if it was colder in Alaska or if it was colder in Kyrgyz in Sweden, but it was around minus 25 or around that where you literally, like you get your your eyelashes, they're completely frozen and and all that that...
Angela Nicholson 25:59
And that was just the base temperature., that's not taking wind chill into account.
Stine Jørgensen 26:04
Yeah, that's true. That's true. Wind chill on top of that, that's a that's brutal. That's really what makes a big difference,
Angela Nicholson 26:10
Yeah.
Stine Jørgensen 26:12
if there's wind chill or not. And just like, Yeah, that. And then you also find that, I find that when you go go more than minus 20, then things start to break. Like, the frost makes things break. Like, if you have clip ons or something, we were working a lot with the dogs, and all of a sudden those didn't work. And, like, that's when you get into different challenges as well, just with general gear and moving around.
Angela Nicholson 26:36
Yeah, so plastic starts to get brittle. So like, the you need to be careful with your bag clips and things.
Stine Jørgensen 26:41
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All clips, really. And umm.
Angela Nicholson 26:45
Okay, so, can I have your fifth number please?
Stine Jørgensen 26:48
One.
Angela Nicholson 26:49
Number one. Oh, this question is from Eileen. She says a lot of women photographers struggle to find gloves that fit properly, especially if their hands are smaller than average. How much demand is for the different sizes of photography gloves. And how do you decide which ranges to produce or which size ranges to produce?
Stine Jørgensen 27:07
Yeah, so we that is absolutely true. It's hard for us to find the sizes that work like I've usually just been in our unisex models. I usually just wear the smaller size we have. But they do have a bit they're a bit wider because they are unisex. So that's why we now this year, brought out the saga women's club. Yeah, and just to accommodate for slimmer hands and yeah, that female fit. But it is a struggle, because every year, what's left on our shelves is a size extra small. So it's small and extra small. It's like the sizes that go last. So it's always we want to not produce more than what we need, but we also want to provide gloves for people with smaller hands. So it's hard, it's really hard, to figure out, where do we land? Because we just you have to order x amount to produce a size and, and yeah, and then we're still stuck with a lot so, but we've so far prioritised to have the extra small in our line, and now we have a separate female glove so that we hope can accommodate More so we are not left as much with the with the extra small sizes, but it really is a struggle to us. We'd love to make, like, female apparel and all that, but we just don't have the demand for it, like, there aren't that many people who buy it. Just like, we would love to have more colours in our range, but people want the black glove, and we're not going to produce, just to produce, yeah, so.
Angela Nicholson 28:43
Okay, someone once told me a few years back now that, you know, saying, we're not far away from, we got print on demand for a lot of things, but sew on demand. So, you know, literally, could put in what size you are and that piece of equipment, or that that clothing is made for you. But I guess gloves are so quite I mean, they're quite difficult to sew, aren't they, and they're quite so specific that I guess we're probably a long way off from getting those sewn on demand.
Stine Jørgensen 29:11
I think so. It is very it's, it's quite a complicated little piece of clothing. Actually, when you think about a hand, you have to have so many moving parts. You have to basically have completely free movement, but also complete coverage. And I don't see that it's something that we would be able to provide with our current setup. They will be have to be very customised and very expensive. So I don't know if that is a route, okay, that will be, come in the future. It will have to be, you know, personal tailors during it, I guess,
Angela Nicholson 29:49
Yeah.
Stine Jørgensen 29:50
it's a yeah for us, it's far, quite Yeah, a while away.
Angela Nicholson 29:55
So you might, I mean, Mittens must be easier to make. You must like people like me who want mittens?
Stine Jørgensen 30:00
Um, yeah, there, there's, yeah, there's less size exchanges with mittens. So that's a that's something that's actually a good statistic in terms of it, because there's less fiddling and um, but, um, but, yeah, but most people want gloves. They want to have that five fingers dexterity, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, but yeah, right mitten people.
Angela Nicholson 30:30
Okay, so your fifth no, your sixth number.
Stine Jørgensen 30:34
What do I have left, eight.
Angela Nicholson 30:35
Now your fingers are warm. How do you keep your toes warm? That question was from Rachel. Now, you did touch on that because you've introduced a range of of socks.
Stine Jørgensen 30:45
Yeah, yeah, we have Merino socks in our line. Now, I like good winter socks, so that's how we keep the feet warm, is like wearing good, I like a good thickness of merino wool socks, like we found that the Merino well, it doesn't get itchy, it's just super soft and and then, yeah, so that's how we so we're really happy with those socks, actually, like they're then definitely our go to in winter. And they are, hands down, some of the best I've tried, because they have that good they're not 100% Merino. They're 75% if I remember correctly, and has a little bit of elastics in there, so they're just so snug on your feet. And yeah, so that's what we do. Good socks.
Angela Nicholson 31:30
A bit of a stretch, to say, photography socks, though?
Stine Jørgensen 31:33
it's a bit of a stretch. We just call them socks, just socks, just regular socks, but great for winter conditions, and then, of course, great boots. You have to invest in some good footwear to stay. It's warm. It's all about the layering, but you need the inner layer to be great to keep warm.
Angela Nicholson 31:53
Yeah? I mean, if when you get wet, things change dramatically, don't they? You want to stay dry.
Stine Jørgensen 31:58
Yeah? For sure, for sure.
Angela Nicholson 32:01
Well, Stine, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast. It's been really interesting chatting with you.
Stine Jørgensen 32:06
Yeah, you're welcome. It's been very nice to chat to you and yeah, and it's so cool to see what you are doing with SheClicks. I've seen that evolve over the years as well. So congratulations on that achievement. Yeah.
Angela Nicholson 32:18
Thanks very much.
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