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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... Lire plus...
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... Lire plus...
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... Lire plus...
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,... Lire plus...
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... Lire plus...
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... Lire plus...
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... Lire plus...
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... Lire plus...
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... Lire plus...
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,... Lire plus...
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.... Lire plus...
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,... Lire plus...