S.E.H Kelly

sehkelly said:

... and in terms of what works best with our knitwear, I hope that they're all equally viable — they're not at all separate in my mind in that respect. I am sure we've photographed them in every combination over the years!

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Outstanding, I appreciate your thoughts and detailed feedback!

sehkelly said:

Here's one!

Finally.

More to come.

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More!

Very much in the spirit of "why not" and true to our mission statement that one can never develop too many coats, we've started work on a polo coat.

This one will likely be a buttonless style, going back to the days when people playing polo were much too tired to fasten their coats between games and relied instead on a belt (true historical fact).

In that respect, it is similar to the tielocken.

Big, anyway -- big coat, big cloth.

The back is the part that interests me most: it looks like an inversion of what we normally do on a coat, with the boxy part of a box pleat facing outwards. It's a little different from that, in execution, but it has that look and means that when you tighten the belt, you get some really satisfying folds at the rear.

I should add, if only to see off any further enquiries about my decision-making faculties, that it indeed does not yet have a collar, but it will: we are working on that this week.

It does at least have sleeves, which are the half-raglan variety we've used once or twice before, which have the shoulder seams not run into the neck circle as a full raglan, but stop someway short. You still get that nice soft line over the shoulder, however. The sleeve itself is three pieces, so there is a good tailored shape to them already, with nice pitch, which can be seen above with the very (very) straight line of the top sleeve seam.

It will probably have full turn-back cuffs, very big patch pockets, and, well, we'll see how it develops, but it is flowing quite nicely at this stage.

How long will the polo be compared to your other coats

Looks great. What are you thinking for cloth? I suspect camelhair would be too expensive and maybe not within your "palette" so to speak?

Spaghettimatt said:

Looks great. What are you thinking for cloth? I suspect camelhair would be too expensive and maybe not within your "palette" so to speak?

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I think the world needs fewer polo coats in camelhair, not more! *

Especially not from me.

There seem to be lots of natural woollens about the place at the moment, made with the wool of British sheep from a few of our regular mills. Similar to the Herdwick tweed that we use and varying in weights and qualities. Methinks the British Wool (tm) company has been at work!

Anyway, a few of them are really good, thick, buoyant, and more in keeping with our way of business than camelhair.

We'll see, though, as this isn't a coat that'll be released any time soon.

* I do like camelhair, but would rather use it for something unexpected, I guess, like a workwear style.

Csus2 said:

How long will the polo be compared to your other coats

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It will certainly be one of the longer ones.

This is being developed at the same time as the British Warm — albeit the British Warm is nearly complete — and being as they're both semi-tailored DB overcoats, we've been careful to give them their own lanes, so to speak, in which to function and specialise.

The British Warm will be the shorter and more formal of the two and has found its patch pockets pinched by the polo coat.

The polo coat will be a bigger coat overall, likely with wider lapels, longer, and made in a thicker cloth than the Warm. The nature of the back of the polo coat, with the military overcoat-style pleat setup, likely necessitates it being quite long anyway: at least as long as the greatcoat.

sehkelly said:

It will certainly be one of the longer ones.

This is being developed at the same time as the British Warm — albeit the British Warm is nearly complete — and being as they're both semi-tailored DB overcoats, we've been careful to give them their own lanes, so to speak, in which to function and specialise.

The British Warm will be the shorter and more formal of the two and has found its patch pockets pinched by the polo coat.

The polo coat will be a bigger coat overall, likely with wider lapels, longer, and made in a thicker cloth than the Warm. The nature of the back of the polo coat, with the military overcoat-style pleat setup, likely necessitates it being quite long anyway: at least as long as the greatcoat.

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Hi Paul,

Have your posted pictures of the British Warm? If not can you please? Thanks.

ppk said:

Have your posted pictures of the British Warm? If not can you please? Thanks.

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Yep -- a few weeks ago ... albeit they're characteristically oblique (but since quite a lot has changed in the lower half of the coat since they were taken, prophetically, in this instance).

It will probably have a chest pocket, too.

This one is on track for the autumn.