Sheep, who knew, go grey. The proof is right here in the new SB2, which is made with cloth from the Inner Hebrides — from a mill which rears and shears its own sheep, before weaving the organic, and often grey, yarn on a clunking Victorian power loom.   Read more

"Hand-framed" is what the new cardigan is — that and a half-dozen other terms from the lexicon of knitted luxury. But, then, who better to entrust with cashmere-cotton as fine as this, but the knitwear maker who coined half those phrases in the first place?  Read more

The car coat in Ventile cotton, this — a rear view of. It has a traditional one-piece sleeve to accommodate if not encourage arms-up manoeuvres, a single vent, and a curtain which runs all around its middle and shelters two foolscap-size pockets at the front.   Read more

The opticals department is now open for business — with frames for spectacles made in London, by a place which opened in 1930, and has cut, bumped, bent, twirled, and polished face-furniture for the great and good with the same contraptions ever since.   Read more

It stands to reason that the balmacaan, being colloquial in places high and remote in Scotland for "walking coat", wouldn't look out of place in the Highlands: heavy tweed, deep welt pockets, and a collar which climbs to the top of the neck and keeps going.  Read more

The peacoat is an annual exercise in finding the best heavy wool from across Britain. Birdseye tweed, this time, from the Inner Hebrides: a mix of brown yarn from Hebridean sheep in the flush of youth, and silver yarn from pension-collecting ones.   Read more

The new lead-grey overshirt is made with knit-woollen twill, which is woven wool with the handle and drape of fine knitwear. Close your eyes, indeed, and run it over your palm, and you may you were fondling a soft sweater, rather than a Yorkshire-woven twill.   Read more

There are many things you can make with five yards of heavy worsted duffle cloth, four handmade horn toggles, and a few feet of natural jute rope. But very few of them, arguably, would be as pleasing to wear as the new split-sleeve, peak hood, duffle coat.   Read more

The new gloves, if they could talk, would be rather well-spoken. They are, after all, made by hand in the centuries-old crucible of English glove-making — a place which has cut and sewn luxury-spec deerskin into finger-shaped form since George III were a lad.   Read more

This is a man of many hats; a man of many same but different hats. Though each hat appears identical, the one second from top is a trilby. Below that is a homburg. At the top, a bowler. This is a versatile hat, handmade by the finest hat-maker in England.   Read more

Summer's not summer without a heavy hydrophobic jacket. Especially one with a hood. This is Ventile Canvas: another first in the world of high-performance cotton, and a cloth so commanding that, if you're not careful, wears you, not the other way round.   Read more

Back again, with a new lapel and new pockets, comes the good old SB3. There's a navy one and a charcoal one, this time around, and the cloth — a twilly blend of lambswool and merino — must surely be the most agreeable woven in all of West Yorkshire.   Read more

The opticals department is now open for business — with frames for spectacles made in London, by a place which opened in 1930, and has cut, bumped, bent, twirled, and polished face-furniture for the great and good with the same contraptions ever since.   Read more

The new raglan shirt is made with an angora-lambswool material from south-west Wales. Down into the valley of the old mill have gone local sheep-rearing sorts with their fleeces for over two centuries — all in the name of woollens of knee-buckling softness.   Read more

The short jacket is, in short, a short jacket. But — what with its hand-framed knitted rib cuffs, its tortoiseshell horn buttons, and its corduroy found deadstock in the back-room of a cotton mill in east Lancashire — there are considerable lengths about it, too.   Read more

Knitwear this spring is, once again, hand-loomed by the finest makers in these isles or most others. This time, though, it is made from linen — making it light you wonder why, when not worn, these new cardigans and crewnecks don't just float off, up, and away.   Read more