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Can't shut up
Self-isolation wouldn’t be a bad way of summing up how things have gone down at the workshop the past ten years. A few visitors, sure, but the general long-exposure representation... Leer más...
Impersonation of shopkeepers
"A nation of shopkeepers," is how one wag once described England, musing in not the nicest way that we’d all be too busy stacking shelves and taking stock to put... Leer más...
Single-breasted vision
The single-breasted coat. The SB. Is there anything more respectable, more right and proper and upstanding, in all that is men's clothing? Why, it was often once said that a... Leer más...
That summer feeling
What you picture when you picture “summer wardrobe” is probably light and loose; nature-embracingly neutral or pastel, perhaps. What it isn’t, by any stretch of the reasonable imagination, is textured.... Leer más...
Sleeve preservation society
Didn’t you know? We live in the Age of the Set-in Sleeve. Look around you: you’re lucky if one in ten of the sleeves you see are anything other than... Leer más...
Parka the problem
Ask a hundred people what makes a good parka and you’ll get a hundred different answers. Maybe more. A parka, after all, to most people, is surely just a coat... Leer más...
No more second trenches
This is what happens when a company very fond of trench coats finds itself having already developed a trench coat. Where on earth to go next? Why, to the history... Leer más...
Topical, tropical, topographical
This cloth really puts the local into locally made two-ply tropical worsted. It puts all the other words in there, too, but local is the important one. It is a... Leer más...
Walking a fine line
Trousers, here, of the slim variety. This time they're made with a high-count cotton poplin from sunny Scotland — all crisp and sharp and dry. Typically, this sort of material... Leer más...
Digging trenches again
Work is not ongoing with the trench, because the trench hasn’t changed — save splitting apart its belt — since making its debut five years ago. This is the finished... Leer más...
Mad dogs and Englishmen
There are better times to be in the coat business than in the middle of Mother Nature's most concerted baking of the British Isles since 1976. And while only mad... Leer más...
Fastenating development
These new buttons — they are quite like the old buttons, which have been in constant and almost exclusive circulation here for nearly a decade. And that’s part of the... Leer más...