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T-shirt or not t-shirt
What’s funny — and not funny-ha-ha so much as funny-huh — about the t-shirt here at the workshop is that, well, it isn’t really a t-shirt at all. Or rather,... More
Herdwick on the grapevine
It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t so nice. But then, if they weren’t so nice, it wouldn’t be so good. The pleasure-pressure paradox, that, of working alongside acquaintances... More
Factory record
Consider the bumblebee. A ludicrous little fella: oblivious entirely to the impossibility of his fuzzy and rotund form being able to fly. One might wonder, if he stopped to think... More
But why epaulettes?
Vestiges — they’re all around us. What's more, the more you have them on your mind, the more you see them. Nowhere is this true more than in men’s clothes,... More
Shirt shrift
Sacrilege though it seems to say, wearing a shirt every day — it can get a bit much, sometimes, can't it? One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven, then... More
Like tweed used to be
If you've ever set foot in a factory that makes shirts or jackets or coats, even a small one, you'll be quickly acquainted with the hard fact that there's no... More
Perspiring to greatness
Three weeks in and it's starting to look how it's meant to look, the greatcoat. "Third week" is misleading, true, as while correct in a time-passing sense, only one day... More
Match of the day
The machinist versus the sample. 10:15 kick-off. The style is the newest iteration of the car coat. To guide him, the machinist has to hand only the pattern — annotated... More
Drafts, cuts, and leaves
If making it look easy is a tell-tale sign of mastery, then there's no argument: the pattern-cutter is a master. The evidence for this is endless and is all over... More
The advent of spring
It has been an annus horribilis to end all annusses horribilis, but it seems to be coming to a close with shoots here and there of hope and of optimism.... More
Scantily glad
It’s a trend which can no longer be ignored. There’s a span of several days every year — and of which today is right in the middle — when it... More
Career change
You just have to admit, sometimes, that things have run their course. It's time for a change, you think, even though it's not clear at first quite why. Now, on... More