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What Shopify theme does Rothy's use?

Rothy's is running rothys\/production on Shopify 2.0. We identified it from inline window.Shopify.theme JSON plus signature-matched CSS class prefixes.

rothys\/product…

theme detected

Shopify 2.0 · 14 sections

Live result · refreshed 2026-05-29

rothys.com
Screenshot of Rothy's's Shopify storefront

About Rothy's

Founded 2012 · US

Roth Martin and Stephen Hawthornthwaite started Rothy's after Hawthornthwaite's wife asked why dressy flats had to come from petroleum. The brand built its own 3D-knitting facility in Dongguan, then expanded into bags — claiming to have diverted 175M+ recycled plastic bottles from oceans + landfills as of 2024. Alpargatas (Havaianas' parent) bought a 49% stake at a $1bn valuation in 2021.

Public scale markers

Disclosed in filings, acquisitions or named press reporting — not estimates.

  • 0149% sold to Alpargatas at $1bn valuation (2021)
  • 02B Corp certified since 2018
  • 03175M+ recycled plastic bottles repurposed (2024 disclosure)
  • 04Direct ownership of Dongguan manufacturing facility

Notable for the theme detector

Rothy's has been a Shopify Plus tenant since 2017 and is publicly cited in Shopify's enterprise case-study library. The PDP product-customisation flow is one of the more sophisticated examples of in-storefront product configurator work on Plus.

Theme identity

Theme name
rothys\/production
Theme ID
139501830238
Homepage template
index

Shopify 2.0 readiness

Online Store 2.0

Yes

Sections rendered

14

Theme app extensions

0

Customisation + performance

How heavily Rothy's's storefront has been modified on top of the base theme.

Inline scripts

151

HTML size

1122 KB

TTFB

254 ms

CMP

OneTrust

What this theme + customisation reveals

Rothy's's storefront declares "rothys\/production" via window.Shopify.theme JSON but the underlying CSS signatures don't match a commercial theme we track. That pattern is consistent with either (a) a fully-custom in-house theme that the team named after a project codename, or (b) a heavily-forked commercial theme where the original class prefixes have been stripped during customisation. Either way, the build effort here is meaningful.

The 14-section homepage is dense — most stores use 6-10 sections. Heavy section count usually means a content-led merchandising strategy. 151 inline scripts on the homepage suggests app-embed bloat — common in stacks that grew app-by-app over years. 254ms TTFB is fast — Shopify Plus + deliberate cache warming is doing its job.

Cross-check with the App Stack Detector to see how the apps installed interact with the theme — heavily-customised themes typically run thinner app stacks because custom code replaces app functionality.

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