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The alright outdoors
You get those outdoors coats, don't you, like Swiss Army knives. Features on top of features, pockets inside pockets, and zips to who-knows-where lurking in places most coats don't even... Mehr lesen …
Donkey work
The word workmanlike was used to describe the duffle coat last month, but its prosaic chops are as nothing next to that of the donkey jacket — a garment whose... Mehr lesen …
Synthetic serendipity
When you have a clutch of world-beating suppliers at your doorstep, there's really no excuse not to visit them from time to time. Not only does it seem lazy not... Mehr lesen …
Duffle debut, overdue
The duffle coat, can you believe it, has been around for two years, and as yet hasn’t had a proper introduction. What is this place coming to? Especially egregious, this,... Mehr lesen …
The Kelly imposition
Classics — they’re very in this year, aren’t they? You can’t go anywhere without bumping into balmacaans, Ulsters, trench coats, Lodens, Chesterfields, polo coats, and assorted other golden oldies. And... Mehr lesen …
Ready when it's ready
This time last year, you might remember, there were murmurings here and there about a parka — in development and progressing at great clip. It had the novel idea, this... Mehr lesen …
Male pattern boldness, pt. 4
"Thing is, a parka [let's say] is always going to be a parka. There's only so much you can do with it," a passerby flicking through the garments at the... Mehr lesen …
Some Ventiles, pt. 5
The people at Ventile: they can't see to stop pulling rabbits from that tightly woven long-staple cotton hat of theirs. Take the stuff you see here. It is the latest... Mehr lesen …
Male pattern boldness, pt. 3
There no escaping the pressure that comes with giving a garment a name like "topcoat". There's an expectancy to be, at the absolute base-level, good — and ideally much more... Mehr lesen …
Hemp the aged
The textile industry over here has, over the last half-century, shrunk more than a dry-clean-only on a boil wash. No great news in that. But if you look hard enough,... Mehr lesen …
Male pattern boldness, pt. 2
It doesn’t always look it on the surface, but things change a lot around here. It is in fact very much the spirit of the place. Progress and all that.... Mehr lesen …
A short fluffy tale
One of these cloths — here on the cutting table today — is not like the others. It looks like the others, smells like the others, drapes like the others,... Mehr lesen …