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6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
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 for a second, might he drop from the sky and be forced to do something more probable with the rest of his days? We’re long past speculating h
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
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 is spent developing patterns each week, so the third week is more in truth only the third day -- about 20 hours, give or take. Which when building a ne
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
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 shortage of cloth in the world, and indeed there's really rather a lot of it, and while much of it is perfectly serviceable, there it just sits, gathering dust in
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
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. Nowhere is this true more than at the outerwear factory, where, in a dip in production capacity this month, not one but four new jackets have not only gone into work,
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
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 the place, but its most startling example is the ease with which he draws the first draft of a new sleeve (for example) by hand. The overall dimensions and pr
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
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 in the customarily laissez-faire manner of its author — and a toile, which is a rough mock-up, a proof of concept, with almost all the right body parts
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
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 that note, there is nothing wrong at all with the car coat. It is about the oldest coat in the collection, yes -- dating back to 2012, which in fashion years is
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
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 becomes so unbearably hot in the capital and much of the rest of the country that thinking about wearing clothes (let alone developing them and making them) is almost, well, unthi
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
The single-breasted coat. The SB. Is there anything more respectable, more right and proper and upstanding, in all that is men's clothing? Why, it was often once said that a man could wear one, and one alone, and still get by in life without anyone really raising much of an eyebrow. Which begs the question why it has t
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
"A nation of shopkeepers," is how one wag once described England, musing in not the nicest way that we’d all be too busy stacking shelves and taking stock to put up much fight if anyone had a mind to, say, pop across the Channel and introduce the king to Madame Guillotine. This isn’t a nation of shopkeepers, thank you
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
Self-isolation wouldn’t be a bad way of summing up how things have gone down at the workshop the past ten years. A few visitors, sure, but the general long-exposure representation of life at 1 Cleve Workshops is one of one person, two at best, sat in hunched fashion in a dark, cramped recess below the beams of a danger
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
Ask a hundred people what makes a good parka and you’ll get a hundred different answers. Maybe more. A parka, after all, to most people, is surely just a coat with a hood. But then, if every parka is a coat with a hood, then is every coat with a hood a parka? Surely not. Ubiquitous yet uncertain, then, the parka, the m
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
Didn’t you know? We live in the Age of the Set-in Sleeve. Look around you: you’re lucky if one in ten of the sleeves you see are anything other than that most simple and straightforward style of sleeve, with a sleeve in two or three pieces sewn onto to the body with a tidy circular seam. Ubiquity for good reason, no do
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
What you picture when you picture “summer wardrobe” is probably light and loose; nature-embracingly neutral or pastel, perhaps. What it isn’t, by any stretch of the reasonable imagination, is textured. Textured, that is, as in the superlative, describing the way a surface might dance in an endearing manner before or be
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
Trousers, here, of the slim variety. This time they're made with a high-count cotton poplin from sunny Scotland — all crisp and sharp and dry. Typically, this sort of material is used for making raincoats, which means it is much more substantial — and not a little more rigid — than you might expect from your leg-wear.
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
This cloth really puts the local into locally made two-ply tropical worsted. It puts all the other words in there, too, but local is the important one. It is a worsted — another of those words — made with wool from the flocks of Cheviot sheep across North Yorkshire, and is then combed, washed, and woven in textile faci
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
This is what happens when a company very fond of trench coats finds itself having already developed a trench coat. Where on earth to go next? Why, to the history books, of course: to those great and weighty annals of menswear past, when men were men and coats were coats. Turns out the trench coat, at the start of the F
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
You get those outdoors coats, don't you, like Swiss Army knives. Features on top of features, pockets inside pockets, and zips to who-knows-where lurking in places most coats don't even have places. The field coat tends instead toward traditional technical outerwear — which is to say, technical outerwear which has had
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
These new buttons — they are quite like the old buttons, which have been in constant and almost exclusive circulation here for nearly a decade. And that’s part of the plan: continuity is a serious business. They’re not better than the existing ones. Not at all. But they do have a few unique benefits. Most notable of th
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
There are better times to be in the coat business than in the middle of Mother Nature's most concerted baking of the British Isles since 1976. And while only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, sometimes they don’t have much say in the matter, and must while they’re at it attire themselves smartly. So, if
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
Work is not ongoing with the trench, because the trench hasn’t changed — save splitting apart its belt — since making its debut five years ago. This is the finished article. Just needs buttons and a bit of a clean-up. But while the trench is unchanged on the face of it, that doesn’t mean questions like “how can this be
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
When you have a clutch of world-beating suppliers at your doorstep, there's really no excuse not to visit them from time to time. Not only does it seem lazy not to, there are benefits galore in taking time out from the daily grind to go see what they're up to, how, who, where, and why. Take this one time last year, and
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
The word workmanlike was used to describe the duffle coat last month, but its prosaic chops are as nothing next to that of the donkey jacket — a garment whose very name, from middling 20th-century uniform association to hapless equine connotation, is so redolent of hard graft. Here, though, its grubbier-than-thou prete
6 December 2025S.E.H Kelly
Classics — they’re very in this year, aren’t they? You can’t go anywhere without bumping into balmacaans, Ulsters, trench coats, Lodens, Chesterfields, polo coats, and assorted other golden oldies. And like a stopped clock being right once a day, they’re must-haves this winter. Now, it is all very well paying lip-servi
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