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Overshirts in sideways chalk-stripe wool
Comes into its own in autumn and winter, the overshirt: an easy outer layer on mildly bracing days, and a snug, private, fortifying affair on colder ones. Right on cue,... Lire plus...
Revisiting the moss-stitch
Makes for a deceptively steadying type of knitwear, the moss stitch. Capably keeps the heat in and the cold out — but never gets too bulky. Take the button-up cardigan, which... Lire plus...
Hopsack tweed autumn jackets
The neat jacket: on the face of it, a very simple garment. On closer inspection, though, both the jacket and the cloth it's made from — stouthearted hopsack tweed sourced from... Lire plus...
Wool-cashmere and cord vests
On one side, it's either a luxury flecked wool-cashmere from the Cotswolds or cord from Lancashire. On the other, warm wool-melton. And, sandwiched between, a sensible amount of quilting. It’s... Lire plus...
Lambswool stitched three ways
Some soft but steadying Yorkshire-spun lambswool and three fit-for-purpose stitches make up the three-stitch rollneck. So, moss-stitch on the chest, plain most other places, and a strategically deployed rib-stitch, all... Lire plus...
Making things better
It was never meant to take this long. But sometimes these things can't be helped. After a six-month hiatus, production is back on track, wheels are in motion — insert your... Lire plus...
Introducing the Kelly collar
Take one penny collar, neaten its points, and add a tab fastening to brings said points closer together — do that and you get a Kelly collar. First to feature the... Lire plus...
Midlands-made horn buttons
Horn button makers in the British Isles weren't always so tricky to come by, but now, for one well-trod reason or another, this is only one. Moving as it has... Lire plus...
From the Heavy Woollen District, pt. 1
The first of a two-parter. Words and pictures from a world-beating mill at the heart of the Heavy Woollen District in the north of England. Read the first half of... Lire plus...
Panama stowaway overshirts
Sturdy cotton-panama sees the stowaway overshirt take up position at the light-jacket end of the overshirt continuum. Not surprisingly, then, it's happiest worn over shirt and t-shirt: an easy spring-time... Lire plus...
Half-hidden placket raglan shirts
Not for nothing do raglan shirts fit so well with better weather — scrap the yoke and the shoulder seams and things get immediately airier. This raglan shirt is made... Lire plus...
Cotton-drill tour jacket
This is the tour jacket: a four-buttoned, work jacket-shaped garment, made from an uncommonly crisp and comfortable cotton-drill. You might not know to look at it, but there's more than... Lire plus...