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Pink muumuu dress with bold red hibiscus print and green leaves on mannequin
Margrethe Dress 1961 Sale price$490.00
Woman in a colorful modern mu'umu'u dress sitting indoors against a textured brown wall
Margrethe Dress Rainbow Sale price$490.00
Modern mu'umu'u dress with sunrise-inspired polka dot and geometric print on mannequin
Margrethe Dress Sunrise Sale price$490.00
Woman wearing denim muumuu dress, chunky knit cardigan, mint tights, and black boots
Margrethe Dress Tencel Denim Sale price$350.00

Scenes from our shoot at

The Charlot House in Honolulu

Woman in a red and white modern mu'umu'u dress sitting on a wooden ledge indoors

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Woman in a red and white polka dot modern mu'umu'u dress stands barefoot indoors with wood accents
Bib Dress Pareo Sale price$386.00
Woman in a modern Hawaiian print mu'umu'u dress with green and brown stripes, standing indoors.

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Woman in a colorful modern mu'umu'u dress sitting indoors against a textured brown wall
Margrethe Dress Rainbow Sale price$490.00
Woman in a colorful modern muumuu dress with Hawaiian print, standing in a cozy, book-filled room.

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Woman in a colorful modern muumuu dress with Hawaiian print, standing in a cozy, book-filled room.
Bib Dress Mango Sale price$386.00
Woman in a red and white modern mu'umu'u dress sitting on a wooden ledge indoors
Woman in a red and white polka dot modern mu'umu'u dress stands barefoot indoors with wood accents
Bib Dress Pareo Sale price$386.00
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Woman in a modern Hawaiian print mu'umu'u dress with green and brown stripes, standing indoors.
Woman in a colorful modern mu'umu'u dress sitting indoors against a textured brown wall
Margrethe Dress Rainbow Sale price$490.00
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Woman in a colorful modern muumuu dress with Hawaiian print, standing in a cozy, book-filled room.
Woman in a colorful modern muumuu dress with Hawaiian print, standing in a cozy, book-filled room.
Bib Dress Mango Sale price$386.00
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Customers are saying

Collage of women wearing colorful modern muumuu dresses and Hawaiian prints outdoors

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from our journal

Digging Through the Crates, Summer Studio Notes

Digging Through the Crates, Summer Studio Notes

I am in the midst of archiving of all our prints. I literally pulled out a print yesterday that I forgot I made.

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Art Direction, behind the scenes

Art Direction, behind the scenes

Behind the scenes from our Charlot House shoot in Honolulu. We made a whole deck. We described it at length. And then somehow, it actually looked exactly like what we imagined. Straight magic.

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Outdoor seating area with chairs and a disco ball, leading to a rack with hanging clothes.

more modern mu'umu'u

Language of the Birds makes print driven, ethical clothes. We were founded in Honolulu and our studio is now an unheated barn in Upstate NY. We design all our prints. We cut and sew our dresses in the US.

Colorful silk scarf with mosaic tile print draped on dress form, modern wearable art

our prints

We are concept driven and our development may span years. We love history and embrace a research heavy process. Our prints are held in a museum collection and our work has been recognized by Pantone.

our dresses

We tie our lineage back to the history of feminism and the “reform dress.”  We take the essence of historic Mu’umu’u forms and make them modern. Forms are suitable for all types of work and play.