S.E.H Kelly

[mebro2]

For the ones who are hesitating to purchase the Ulster, do fear as it is as beautiful - perhaps more - as what you see on the website.
While the coat is heavy with its 28oz yet it does not feel like you are carrying a bag of stone on your back, and it really keeps you warm. The pockets for the hands is a really good shout too.
The temperature is dropping in London and this beauty kept me warm on my way back, with just a jacket on today.
In terms of aesthetics, the green is stunning from afar and it is not 'too green'. I spent a couple of minutes, in awe, looking at the different yarns.

If I did not already have a balmacaan that I feel would make the Ulster redundant, I would pick up the Ulster in green in a New York minute. Just stunning. I am, however, open to persuasion that I need both a balmacaan and ulster!

 

[Satmoche]

Oh, which colour did you opt for with the balmacaan? I got the 'grouse brown' and it is an absolute beauty.
I am glad that I got both as I feel like the balmacaan oscillates more towards the casual whereas the Ulster could be worn with jeans as well as with a suit - heavier wools, tweed and flannels. Those turn-back cuffs will make you drool too.

 

[mebro2]

Oh, which colour did you opt for with the balmacaan? I got the 'grouse brown' and it is an absolute beauty.
I am glad that I got both as I feel like the balmacaan oscillates more towards the casual whereas the Ulster could be worn with jeans as well as with a suit - heavier wools, tweed and flannels. Those turn-back cuffs will make you drool too.

I too have the balmacaan in grouse brown, and love it. Nice try--I am rarely in suits these days! But I do admit to lusting after the green Ulster, a real gem among gems.

 

[sehkelly]

Oh, which colour did you opt for with the balmacaan? I got the 'grouse brown' and it is an absolute beauty.
I am glad that I got both as I feel like the balmacaan oscillates more towards the casual whereas the Ulster could be worn with jeans as well as with a suit - heavier wools, tweed and flannels. Those turn-back cuffs will make you drool too.

That's interesting to hear!

A large part of the design process for me is steering the garment between the casual and the formal, or between the relaxed and the (for want of a better word) fancy.

We wanted our Ulster to be a hardier, more earthy Ulster than some of the more tailored ones that you see — redolent of its Belfast dockyards origins and all that.

But after last year, when it had sleeve tabs akin to the balmacaan, I wanted to nudge it very gently into marginally more refined territory, and hence we revived the turn-back cuffs (fixed into the seam on one side) from the original tielocken.

 

[Satmoche]

In my opinion, the lapels, the back belt and the cuffs give it a more 'tailored look' but the colour and the cloth still allow room for casual attire. It is more dressed than the Balmaacan though, distinctively. It is all personal preference too, at the end of the day.
I would say that the trench coat is probably the piece that I would choose if I wanted to wear a full suit with dressed shoes.

It is quite fantastic to wear pieces which unfailingly procure a special feeling. My three SEH Kelly always do that when I put them on.

 

[Csus2]

The hardier nature of the Ulster precisely what I love about your interpretation. My other ulster, altho nice, doesn’t have the practical functions: it is a 6x2 db coat (like the British warm), the lapels don’t really like being folded over to protect my chest if it is colder (Which is irritating: It seems like you missed the point of notched lapels on a coat if you don’t allow for them to fasten under the collar), and the collar is a dainty little thing. I think the ulster’s front, the 6x3 button enclosure; the massive foldable lapels; the strong collar; and, last but not least, the incredible material; all come together to make the coat “insist upon itself” (to borrow from the meme); or rather “insist upon its hardier nature,” regardless of the half belt and the cuffs. This coat can bully every other coat in my closet. Not that it would, mind. But it could, and everyone knows it.

The one downside to this coat is it needs the massive pockets of the balmacaan. No - even BIGGER pockets.

 

[elfreeman]

Hey Paul I know it’s a little early to be asking but any chance there’s An Ulster in black or charcoal in the horizon?