S.E.H Kelly

[ppk]

The cloth from which the field trousers are made is certainly more coarse than the dress trousers.

The former is hardy Shetland wool and the latter is merino (mmmmmmerino).

You will at least find that the most ticklesome of the fibres on the Shetland, the ones which stick out from the surface of the cloth and tease your skin, are smoothed away with wear.

Ah. Thanks for the explanation. Regardless, I'm looking forward to more trousers. They are so flattering and functional.

 

[sehkelly]

We finished off a bunch of new knitwear at the end of the week — new scarves, watch caps, and ganseys.

The scarf design is the same as last year, being a blend of cashmere and cotton, and some verbose swine last year described it as "a small but deceptively warm little scarf. It is designed to wrap around the neck twice, or once if looped into a cow hitch. It is a single layer of tuck-stitch for much of its length, but its end are a double layer of rib, which help the scarf hang tidily at the front."

One of the two colours is a repeat of what went before (the warm red-brown below) and the second is a mix of dark navy and grey (a "north sea" sort of colour if ever there was). The former is online now, and the latter will join it in a few days, along with the caps and the ganseys.

 

[PacoPico]

Ooh, that’s a beautiful color for the scarf.

Do you have anything planned in waxed cotton this winter, Paul? I missed the jacket last year and am always curious what’s coming next.

 

[sehkelly]

Ooh, that’s a beautiful color for the scarf.

Do you have anything planned in waxed cotton this winter, Paul? I missed the jacket last year and am always curious what’s coming next.

We tend not to use (properly waxed) waxed cotton. I'm not a fan of how it feels. We do use cotton stay-wax which is a cotton with a treatment (basically a wax solid at room temperature if memory serves) that helps it perform like waxed cotton but without the stickiness that yours truly so loathes. Last year we used it for the work jacket, and while we don't plan to make the work jacket again any time soon — not for a year or more — we might use the same cloth for other items. But no plans.

Lightweight cotton jackets we *do* plan to make include the fishing jacket, anorak, and field jacket (which isn't so light, but still squeaks into the categorisation because I like it so much).

 

[ojaw]

We tend not to use (properly waxed) waxed cotton. I'm not a fan of how it feels. We do use cotton stay-wax which is a cotton with a treatment (basically a wax solid at room temperature if memory serves) that helps it perform like waxed cotton but without the stickiness that yours truly so loathes. Last year we used it for the work jacket, and while we don't plan to make the work jacket again any time soon — not for a year or more — we might use the same cloth for other items. But no plans.

Lightweight cotton jackets we *do* plan to make include the fishing jacket, anorak, and field jacket (which isn't so light, but still squeaks into the categorisation because I like it so much).

I’ve always loved the waxed cotton that Carradice used on their traditional saddle bags, the newer stuff is shinier and doesn’t have that wonderful paper scrape feel that it used to.
If you could find a cache of the old cloth and make something out of that…

 

[sehkelly]

And here's the donkey jacket — the jacket saddled (pun intended) with the awful name, and yet as sleekly tailored as we've ever been able to muster — hopefully to resurface on the website later this week.

It's been a long time, old buddy!

 

[Csus2]

well, your prodigal son is in fine form. Is it still the classic 27oz melton and sail cloth?

 

[sehkelly]

well, your prodigal son is in fine form. Is it still the classic 27oz melton and sail cloth?

That's the one, yes — the woollen part is the same as the peacoat or greatcoat.

 

[sehkelly]

A few new items from the folder with the "spectacularly overdue but nevertheless quite handy at this time of year in most parts of the world and indeed not so overbearingly warm that you can't wear them a good rest of the time, too" label on it.

 

[sussi]

A few new items from the folder with the "spectacularly overdue but nevertheless quite handy at this time of year in most parts of the world and indeed not so overbearingly warm that you can't wear them a good rest of the time, too" label on it.

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that short beanie looks great!

 

[sehkelly]

that short beanie looks great!

Cheers!

It is actually quite a full beanie, as the rib is quite deep (but not especially thick) so can be rolled once (long beanie) or twice (short beanie).

 

[sehkelly]

Here — a few photographs more of the newly available (though in scant supply) donkey jacket in heavy melton from West Yorkshire and also rather heavy sail-cloth from Northern Ireland.

I tend to think the contrast of the materials showcases better than most other styles the one-piece Dolman sleeve, in particular the apparent absence of armholes!

 

[Csus2]

Paul, the recently posted photo of the cardigan being worn over the crewneck (I think) probably should come with some sort of safety warning.

*The clothing shown here is either worn by professionals or worn under the supervision of professionals. We insist that you do not try this at home*

Type of thing.

I dunno if the human body can deal with that level of plush heat retention.

Re: the donkey jacket, I was somewhat disappointed that the XS had already sold out, but it is probably for the best. I don’t reeeeeeeeaaaaaaally need any more clothes. I’m already overwhelmed by my current wardrobe.

 

[sehkelly]

I dunno if the human body can deal with that level of plush heat retention.

It is a good point.

Reminds me of this from a few years ago, which was equally irresponsible example-setting.



I once heard of monks practicing advanced meditation techniques, whereby they can sit in a freezing cold room covered wet blankets, but enter a deep meditative state that causes their internal body temperature to rise upwards of 10-degrees Celsius (and eventually drying the blankets out).

Perhaps tweed / knitwear aficionados are capable of same but in reverse?

 

[Jnarcane]

A boon enjoyed by the SEHK flock: one does not want for durable shopping bags.