S.E.H Kelly

[Spicycurry]

Paul, I missed out on the black barleycorn balmacaan you ended up making a few years ago. Do you still have photos of that? It's one of my biggest regrets and it would be fantastic if we could add that to the discussion.

 

[sehkelly]

Paul, can you post orders "Delivered Duty Paid" to EU addresses? To avoid the annoyance of dealing with customs clearance.

We're always happy to dispatch orders by whichever service the customer so wishes.

From what I have seen, which I must caveat is limited, DDP is quite expensive -- at least £80 to somewhere in Europe, and up to £400 for heavier items to further afield (and more, depending on value) -- so there would be a surcharge on the order.

As you know, shipping is (and will be) always completely free on our website, and since the policy was "baked" into the website when I made it, it (or rather me) isn't clever enough to allow the user to choose a different shipping service like DDP at checkout. More than happy to accommodate, though, if it is preferable!

Last month we also made all prices on the website completely free from VAT, so now, all customers outside the UK pay no sales tax (currently 20%) to our friends in Westminster.

 

[sehkelly]

Paul, I missed out on the black barleycorn balmacaan you ended up making a few years ago. Do you still have photos of that? It's one of my biggest regrets and it would be fantastic if we could add that to the discussion.

Which one was that, sorry?

(getting old)

 

[sehkelly]

I'd love to see some green-greys, those can be very wearable and a nice changeup from what is typically seen. Alternatively, a rich olive-khaki color like Old Joe had last season in some of its coats.

Nice!

I haven't seen Donegal yarns as bright / saturated as that, but I'll investigate.

I wonder if they tend on the whole to be more muted so the trademarks flecks of colour can shine through. (Such was the origins of the flecks in the first place: to add colour to plain woollens, with dyeing being very expensive back in the day.)

 

[WizardVigilante]

Nice!

I haven't seen Donegal yarns as bright / saturated as that, but I'll investigate.

I wonder if they tend on the whole to be more muted so the trademarks flecks of colour can shine through. (Such was the origins of the flecks in the first place: to add colour to plain woollens, with dyeing being very expensive back in the day.)

Probably about as much flamboyance as you could get away with in the west of Ireland, without being burned as a suspected changeling. We've relaxed a lot in the intervening centuries.

 

[Spicycurry]

Which one was that, sorry?

(getting old)

I guess it wasn't quite black. Regardless, the hopsack is a grail of mine at this point.

 

[sehkelly]

I guess it wasn't quite black. Regardless, the hopsack is a grail of mine at this point.

Gotcha!

I don't have any photographs to hand right now, but here are some links ...



... and the brown version:



This cloth was made with a mix of Donegal tweed and black cotton and was woven in Northern Ireland with quite different contraptions to our usual Donegal tweed (which is woven in Donegal).

 

[sehkelly]

We also made a balmacaan with the same cloth in another colour a few years back:





Talk about bobbly.

 

[Spicycurry]

Looks amazing

Dare I ask what would it take to get one

 

[sehkelly]

Looks amazing

Dare I ask what would it take to get one

Sorry! You'll have to hunt for that one. We no longer have any of the cloth, and it was made to order at the time.

 

[Spicycurry]

Sorry! You'll have to hunt for that one. We no longer have any of the cloth, and it was made to order at the time.

The navy version will have to do

 

[Miles R.]

Any chance of a belt on the coat?

 

[sehkelly]

Any chance of a belt on the coat?

It's not out of the question!

But at least in part because we have several coats already with belts in our line-up, in the interests of balance the balmacaan doesn't have one. (I also prefer balmacaans without belts.)

One idea I had is to send some belt loops and a belt along with the Styleforum coat, and if anyone wished to attach the loops (and thus belt the coat) they could sew them on themselves or have them done quickly at a local tailor. Sort of like how outfitters did in London a few decades ago.

 

[himichael]

Yes: the reds, greens, and browns.
No: the greys, blacks, and blues. look warm while keeping warm.

 

[pyunghwa]

In addition to a longer length (i would prefer just below the knee so it doesn't get dirty getting in and out of the car) other details that would be interesting:
- inverted box pleat
- turn up cuffs
- longer belt option
- removable throat latch that can be attached inside the coat when not in use

I've included some images as examples.