Our point of difference is fabric. And it always has been. Our designs are very carefully considered but ultimately they're quite straightforward. Which puts rather a lot of responsibility on the fabric. We hunt around - sometimes at painstaking length - for fabrics with something about them. Usually, it's weight, texture, provenance and character. We want fabrics that get noticed, but only after a little while. Like the dinner guest who doesn’t need to make himself heard, but invariably has something interesting to say. The unusual weight of a linen, the sumptuous handle of a corduroy, the particular-shade-of-blue wool twill. The common thread is fairly simple. We want to make clothes you still like to wear ten years from now. Designs straightforward enough to stick around in fabrics interesting enough to get better while they do.
Explore our latest fabrics here.
Unusually heavy linens
The category that started it all. The premise that originally inspired the brand was a simple one: linen should be something we wear all year round. That premise has always been embodied in our heavy linen jackets and shirts. The fabrics - 15oz for jackets and 7oz for shirts - age even more gracefully than good summer linens. The patina of time is heavy linen's best friend.
Browse Heavy Linens here.
Sumptuously-handled corduroys
Corduroy belongs to a family of durable cotton fabrics known as fustians, which Britain became extraordinarily good at making during the Industrial Revolution. So, we made an easy decision to source ours from Brisbane Moss, one of Britain’s great corduroy specialists, based just up the road in Yorkshire. They’ve been at it for 168 years.
Explore Sumptuous Corduroys here.
That particular-shade-of-blue wool twill
Nine ounces. Three seasons. The ubiquity of the navy suit makes it a surprisingly complex thing to take on. If you want to do it the OF way, anyway. The precise cloth choice becomes very important. In this case, we chose a 100% British 9oz wool twill in a navy that’s just fractionally more blue than classic city navy. Formal enough when it needs to be, but no danger of looking like an intern at the Lloyd's building.
Browse Wool Twill here.
