Mots

Male pattern boldness, pt. 1
The peacoat. By 'eck it’s a full-blooded thing. Anyone with even passing familiarity of its origins in the lore of menswear will find it hard to separate the style from... Lire plus...
Straw hat argument
Okay. Fair cop. Panama isn't a suburb in Luton. It isn't the posh part of Stockport. Panama, hands up, isn't even in Britain. It is, rather, a sovereign entity in... Lire plus...
Of middling quality
Mankind has been placing one garment on top of another — starting with the one nearest the body, and working step-by-step outwards — since just after the concept of wearing... Lire plus...
Caan-do
There’s no such word as “balmacaan’t.” There is, though, a word “balmacaan.” It is one which originates from the Balmacaan Forest, which is a place very popular with people, usually... Lire plus...
SEHK-SH-01 revisited
Change, whether we want it or not, comes to us all. It has come even to that most under-radar of garments, the shirt — which until now had gone about... Lire plus...
Fur heads
The question is enough to keep you up at night. How does a hat come into being? A proper hat, that is, made with felt. Because it seems a thing... Lire plus...
Relapelling
New lapels have abounded this year, but what are they all about? Ask well you might: after all, so long as there’s a front, a back, and a couple of sleeves,... Lire plus...
Some Ventiles, pt. 4
Some Ventiles are thicker than others. Okay — you may have heard that before. But, really, some Ventiles are really, really thicker than others; so much thicker they teeter, at... Lire plus...
A spectacle frame, pt. 2
It turns out that developing a spectacle frame, a new one, from scratch, takes much longer than you think to get right. You can get it mostly right in no... Lire plus...
Eilean hopping, pt. 3
One thing you get with linen woven in the land of tweed — the Outer Hebrides, that is — is character. This is very apt, because it surely takes great... Lire plus...
The shirt line
The thinking with the shirt here has always been that the shirt should be a simple thing, an unassuming thing; should be the base on which other things — more... Lire plus...
Some Ventiles, pt. 3
It is with pride that north-western wünder-cloth Ventile has been a staple here since even before its mid-War Manchester conception. It is with even more pride to introduce a new... Lire plus...