All of their products are made in Mitchell's plain and Cape Town so they are empowering local development.

We had Shona Mcdonald the founder of Thursdayz. Thursdayz designs and manufactures lingerie and swimwear for females 'C cup and up. It was launched in December 2018. They are also currently running a crowdfunding.

"Basically we make lingerie and swimwear for women" and she started the brand because she couldn't find any bra's or somewhere that fit her properly that made her feel beautiful. And when she did, it was really  affordable and she felt really bad about herself so she thought if she is feeling this way there must be so many women feeling the same. She studied entrepreneurship and she started working on the brand slowly and she is really pleased to say that they launched their first collection in December and it's going really well and she is super excited about it and it's really beautiful.

All of their products are made in Mitchell's plain and Cape Town so they are empowering local development.

It is a dying skills as well so it's really important that they keep it alive or used to have a booming lingerie industry and its really you can't find people to make a skill with the skills anymore so they had to actually take somebody who is 77 years old now and encourage her to teach their team and she's been phenomenal.

And they are now making really high-quality products that arguably on international standards and then they crowdfunding, because she had a lot of woman approached her really excited about the thought of a brand that caters for them, but at the moment they only make 16 sizes. They are crowd funding to extend the size range because it's not big enough if you look around so many women have so many big boobs mean if that makes sense, but it's really difficult to find is bigger sizes in stores so it's difficult to restart up to be doing so much all at once .That's why the crowdfunding they putting the control back into the hands of the woman who need the product so if you are a lady with big boobs you can go onto their page and purchase look for thunderbirds and you can pre-order your size you can get cool t-shirts that are made their of recycled plastic.

She collaborated with Kevin Brown as well so even if you're a guy even if you have small boobs you can still support the campaign with a really cool reward. And about reward-based crowdfunding is that you guaranteed to get something in return so it's not like you just giving a donation and  hoping for the best for the company as like you get something.




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