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Nothing if not enveloping, the parka major. It has a big old hood, a very high neck, and a double-layered front — all of which serves to encase its wearer within the confines of several pounds of thick, heavy, and not even slightly pliant weatherproof cotton. More
It's a donkey jacket — but not as we know it. Respectful of the age-old workwear classic rather than deferent, this is a winter jacket with a whole-cut upper body, more pockets than one might expect, and a complementary combination of cloths warm and rainproof. More
It's a donkey jacket — but not as we know it. Respectful of the age-old workwear classic rather than deferent, this is a winter jacket with a whole-cut upper body, more pockets than one might expect, and a complementary combination of cloths warm and rainproof. More
Nothing if not enveloping, the parka major. It has a big old hood, a very high neck, and a double-layered front — all of which serves to encase its wearer within the confines of several pounds of thick, heavy, and not even slightly pliant weatherproof cotton. More
It's a good 20 miles from the workshop to the sea, so while the gansey here can't proclaim to be rooted in nautical lore and legend, it does carry on a proud tradition here of hand-framed knits made with merino lambswool and expressly suited to landlubbin' livelihoods. More
Nothing heralds the height of summer in this part of east London quite like a knee-length raincoat. It's all very well being an optimist, but even better is an optimist with this: the light, breathable, but all the while nigh-bulletproof car coat in weatherproof ripstop. More
Nothing heralds the height of summer in this part of east London quite like a knee-length raincoat. It's all very well being an optimist, but even better is an optimist with this: the light, breathable, but all the while nigh-bulletproof car coat in weatherproof ripstop. More
The watch cap this year is brought to you by the letters T, E, X, another T, U, R, and then another E. It is knitted in the south-west of the Isles with geelong lambswool, which is a particularly fine and fluffy breed of merino, as is likewise this here gansey pullover.  More
The peacoat and its preposterous collar are back once again, and once again in heavy woollen melton from the Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire. A reproduction of old military cloth, this — so faithful it's the very same mill making it, 200-plus years on.  More
There is too much talk given to what corduroy means — whether "cloth of the king" or something to do with "roi" or a reference to a man called Curdroy — and not nearly enough to what it means to wear, which is soft and hard-wearing at the very same time. More
There is too much talk given to what corduroy means — whether "cloth of the king" or something to do with "roi" or a reference to a man called Curdroy — and not nearly enough to what it means to wear, which is soft and hard-wearing at the very same time. More
The polo shirt is a knitwear lexicographer's wildest dream. It is fully-fashioned, hand-framed, hand-linked, and knitted with super-fine geelong selected for the roundness of its handle. To everyone else, it's a warm, comfortable, many-purpose-serving sweater.  More
More predictive of winter than the Gregorian Calendar and twice as wearable — yes, the heavy crewneck is back again in all its fluffy tuck-stitched lambswool glory. It is, as ever, ten-ply: barely a fraction below thermonuclear on the knitwear warmth-o-meter.  More
The cloth from which the balmacaan is made is, yes, okay, brown — but it's so much more than that. It's a barleycorn tweed from County Donegal, alive with numberless, numerous, and beyond number little plump nuggets of wool, from chalk to red to chestnut.  More
Greater than the sum of its parts, the duffle. Eight lengths of rope, four toggles — hand-turned horn ones, naturally — and about three metres of very heavy melton is all that goes into it. But that all-enveloping sense of wearing a blanket — can't measure that.  More
Greater than the sum of its parts, the duffle. Eight lengths of rope, four toggles — hand-turned horn ones, naturally — and about three metres of very heavy melton is all that goes into it. But that all-enveloping sense of wearing a blanket — can't measure that.  More
This is the parka minor. Its name is relative to its all-enveloping older brother, but is somewhat misleading all the same — what with it being a coat of considerable proportions and packed to the gills with all sorts of old-school technical features and functions. More
This is the parka minor. Its name is relative to its all-enveloping older brother, but is somewhat misleading all the same — what with it being a coat of considerable proportions and packed to the gills with all sorts of old-school technical features and functions. More
Mid-layers — they don't come any more onomatopoeic than the popover. One second you're there, your top half a little exposed, and the next — a pop! an over! — you're ensconced within a meter and a half of the very best linen in all the Belfast Metropolitan Area. More
Go on — try to think of the last time you encountered a shirt made with linen heftier than what's known in these parts as linen pinpoint. Not easy. And its weight comes in useful — not only in being durable, but in clinging less and so letting air circulate all the more. More
The v-neck is a knitwear lexicographer's wildest dream. It is fully-fashioned, hand-framed, and hand-linked with super-fine geelong lambswool selected for roundness of handle. To normal folks, though, it is a versatile sweater made to the very highest of standards.  More
The v-neck is a knitwear lexicographer's wildest dream. It is fully-fashioned, hand-framed, and hand-linked with super-fine geelong lambswool selected for roundness of handle. To normal folks, though, it is a versatile sweater made to the very highest of standards.  More
The three-ply cotton tuck-stitch of the new polo shirt, here, is so slinky it can travel down a flight of steps end-over-end, as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum. It is hand-framed in a bucolic south-west corner of the British Isles. More
The three-ply cotton tuck-stitch of the new polo shirt, here, is so slinky it can travel down a flight of steps end-over-end, as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum. It is hand-framed in a bucolic south-west corner of the British Isles. More
The three-ply cotton tuck-stitch of the new polo shirt, here, is so slinky it can travel down a flight of steps end-over-end, as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum. It is hand-framed in a bucolic south-west corner of the British Isles. More
There's no getting around the fact that the pyjama top isn't for bedtime at all, but rather a loose and louche wearable for when the sun comes out to play. No structure at all, see, and with an open collar and semi-raglan sleeve that couldn't be more relaxed if they tried. More
There's no getting around the fact that the pyjama top isn't for bedtime at all, but rather a loose and louche wearable for when the sun comes out to play. No structure at all, see, and with an open collar and semi-raglan sleeve that couldn't be more relaxed if they tried. More
There's no getting around the fact that the pyjama top isn't for bedtime at all, but rather a loose and louche wearable for when the sun comes out to play. No structure at all, see, and with an open collar and semi-raglan sleeve that couldn't be more relaxed if they tried. More
There's no getting around the fact that the pyjama top isn't for bedtime at all, but rather a loose and louche wearable for when the sun comes out to play. No structure at all, see, and with an open collar and semi-raglan sleeve that couldn't be more relaxed if they tried. More
The most obvious thing about the engineer jacket is the one thing it doesn't have: a collar. Rather, it has an open, curved front, like what you might see on old engineer or railroad jackets, and a back-to-front construction like what you see on nothing, really, ever. More
Never mind Cancer and Capricorn — the worsted cloth here is tropical by virtue of its springy high-twist yarn and breathable open weave. That, and the fact it is woven in Somerset, equidistant exactly between the Tropics of Cameley and Cannington. More
Never mind Cancer and Capricorn — the worsted cloth here is tropical by virtue of its springy high-twist yarn and breathable open weave. That, and the fact it is woven in Somerset, equidistant exactly between the Tropics of Cameley and Cannington. More
Never mind Cancer and Capricorn — the worsted cloth here is tropical by virtue of its springy high-twist yarn and breathable open weave. That, and the fact it is woven in Somerset, equidistant exactly between the Tropics of Cameley and Cannington. More
Despite specialising in a narrow palette of murky colours for the past decade, the workshop sometimes plays host to what in the trade is referred to as a pop of colour. The field shirt — celestially phosphorescent next to everything else in here — is a new case in point. More
The boatneck has, of all things, a boatneck — which is like a crewneck, but higher at the front and wider at the sides. Rolled edges here and there, too, plus a dropped shoulder, and a bunch of inverted seams. And it is cotton, so pretty good to wear all the year round. More
The boatneck has, of all things, a boatneck — which is like a crewneck, but higher at the front and wider at the sides. Rolled edges here and there, too, plus a dropped shoulder, and a bunch of inverted seams. And it is cotton, so pretty good to wear all the year round. More
Nothing heralds the height of summer in this part of east London quite like a knee-length raincoat. It's all very well being an optimist, but even better is an optimist with this: the light, breathable, but all the while nigh-bulletproof car coat in weatherproof ripstop. More
Nothing heralds the height of summer in this part of east London quite like a knee-length raincoat. It's all very well being an optimist, but even better is an optimist with this: the light, breathable, but all the while nigh-bulletproof car coat in weatherproof ripstop. More
Time to roll up those sleeves and no mistake. For one thing, a spring that's unseasonably warm finds the workshop yard also unseasonably warm. On top of that, though, it's the business end of the season at the factory, with linen shirts aplenty rolling off the line.  More
Time to roll up those sleeves and no mistake. For one thing, a spring that's unseasonably warm finds the workshop yard also unseasonably warm. On top of that, though, it's the business end of the season at the factory, with linen shirts aplenty rolling off the line.  More
Linen suiting is, almost by definition, and certainly without much strenuous deduction, linen for suits. But you can also use it for shirts. What you get is this sort of thing — a robust, elegant shirt, significantly less crease-prone than linen that's run of the mill.  More
Time to roll up those sleeves and no mistake. For one thing, a spring that's unseasonably warm finds the workshop yard also unseasonably warm. On top of that, though, it's the business end of the season at the factory, with linen shirts aplenty rolling off the line.  More

Words

Match of the day

12th February 2021
Pitch-side seats for the back-and-forth humdinger that is machinist versus first sample of the brand new car coat.  "Match of the day"More

Draws, cuts, and leaves

17th December 2020
If making it look easy is a tell-tale sign of mastery, then the pattern-cutter drafting a sleeve is a live demonstration of it.  "Draws, cuts, and leaves"More

The advent of spring

14th December 2020
The annus horribilis to end all annusses horribilis comes to a close with an uplifting run of new developments.  "The advent of spring"More

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Coats
If it's a classic type of garment and you can append to it the word "coat", it might very well be found here. Trench coats, car coats, peacoats, duffle coats — this way. More
Knitwear
Hand-framed and fully fashioned crewnecks, rollnecks, polo shirts, and cardigans — made variously with cashmere, wool, linen, and cotton. More
Mid-layers
More than a shirt, but not quite a jacket, and probably very good sandwiched between the two — that's the key parameter of this department. More
Jackets
They run the gamut, here, do jackets — from the casual type made from cotton or cord, and the more tailored type, made with wool, perhaps, or cashmere. More
Shirts
Some shirts are perennial, some shirts make short-run cameos. Cuffs, collars, sleeves, and yokes, made from cotton, corduroy, linen, wool, and so on. More
Trousers
Bottom-halves — mostly full-length, but also the occasional short — made from wool and cashmere, cotton and corduroy, and, from time to time, from linen. More
Accessories
Hats and gloves and sundry other extremity-ensconcing articles — most of them made in places established back when George III were a lad. More
Mid-layers
The "mid-layer" is that which sits typically between shirt and jacket, but which may also be an outer layer in warmer months. Overshirts, for instance, or vests. More

About

An enduring type of garment is the speciality at S.E.H Kelly. It has been since 2009. It is a garment which will stand the test of time by design, by quality, and by value. More

Workshop

The little workshop was built more than a century ago, and for the past decade has served competently and compactly as company headquarters. Garments aren't made on site, of course — that's the purview of makers all over the British Isles — but are all on display to peruse, try, and buy. More

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S.E.H Kelly
1 Cleve Workshops
Boundary Street

London
E2 7JD
020 3397 0449

Hours

Open more not than often, these days, the workshop. Still, look out for the first workshop in the row, and if the lights are on, please step on inside.

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