Makes for surprisingly steadying knitwear, the moss stitch. Take the button-up cardigan. It's a supremely soft Yorkshire-spun lambswool worked into a dense moss-stitch, and is about as insulating you can legally go without straying into chunky territory. Read more

Comes into its own in winter, the overshirt: an easy outer layer on mildly bracing days, and a snug, private, fortifying affair on colder ones. Bang on cue comes the chalk-stripe seam overshirt: the first fruits of partnership with a Yorkshire mohair mill. Read more

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 from a mill not far outside Manchester — reveal a few winter-improving peculiarities. Read more