We buy four fabrics every year and cut the same short collection from them: a wool coating from Yorkshire, a Portuguese jersey, an Irish linen, and a Japanese denim we have used since the shop opened. Nothing is seasonal, which is the whole point — a size that fits this year still fits next year, because we restock rather than replace.
Made in runs of a few hundred
Everything is made in two workshops, one in Porto and one forty minutes from here. Small runs cost more per piece than a container does, and they buy two things worth more than the difference: we can correct a fit between runs, and we are not left with three thousand of something nobody wanted.
The trade-off is honest and worth stating plainly. Pieces sell out, and a restock takes six to ten weeks. If something has gone in your size, ask — we keep a list and write to the people on it before the stock goes live.
Repaired rather than replaced
Every seam we sell is one we can open again. Repairs on anything bought here are free for the first two years and charged at cost afterwards: a relined pocket, a re-set button, a coat re-hemmed after it has been shortened once already. Bring it in on a Saturday, or post it and we will post it back.
A garment that can be repaired is worth buying once. One that cannot is rented, at a price that only looks like a purchase.
Where the price goes
We publish what a piece costs to make on each product page, because a price without one is a claim rather than a fact. It covers cloth, cutting, sewing, trims and the workshop own margin. It does not cover our rent, which is where the rest of the price goes.