S.E.H Kelly

[sehkelly]

I don't think I could stand to look at myself in the mirror unless I gave everyone else a fair shot at the balaclava first.

You know I have high hopes for the balaclava. I know it sounds hopelessly romantic but I believe so long as there people out there who wish to hide their identity, and to do so in comfort, there is potential market for our balaclava.

 

[WizardVigilante]

Finally had a bit of a cold snap with weather in the low single digits. The cedar corduroy work jacket has been amazing. It's like walking around in heavy corduroy body armour. The lustre on the cord is hard to describe, would opalescent be over the top? It's such a gorgeous material. The build quality is equally impressive, it feels like it was carved from a block of solid corduroy rather than constructed. Very happy with the purchase.

 

[sehkelly]

Finally had a bit of a cold snap with weather in the low single digits. The cedar corduroy work jacket has been amazing. It's like walking around in heavy corduroy body armour. The lustre on the cord is hard to describe, would opalescent be over the top? It's such a gorgeous material. The build quality is equally impressive, it feels like it was carved from a block of solid corduroy rather than constructed. Very happy with the purchase.

Thanks very much for saying so.

The factory boss sometimes complains that they're a garment manufacturer and not a woodwork specialist, when we present them with some of our tougher materials, so a lot of what you say will ring true to him.

 

[RozenKristal]

Can you buy me a bigger workshop, please, first?

If i win the lotto, that is what i gonna do first.

 

[Thibault S]

If i win the lotto, that is what i gonna do first.

I think If I were you that I'd buy the whole collection and then the workshop would look bigger

 

[RozenKristal]

What is your opinion on hemming a pants with cuff Paul? I was seeing it relative to fabric types and weights. Asking because I have a pair of moleskin flat front chino that need hemming.

 

[sehkelly]

What is your opinion on hemming a pants with cuff Paul? I was seeing it relative to fabric types and weights. Asking because I have a pair of moleskin flat front chino that need hemming.

I'm all for it.

I don't do it myself as I fear shortening things too much or too little and living to regret it forevermore. Plus the heavy turned seams on both sides of the leg on own trousers make it trickier to do tidily than most.

But I like it. I think it's good to introduce some depth to proceedings down near the shoe. Personally, I always roll my trouser legs -- it's an old habit from when I was hip, trendy, and cool -- which achieves the same thing but in a sloppier way. But I have been of a mind to offer a pre-cuffed trouser, so I suppose that means I am innately and inherently pro-cuff.

Go for it, says I.

 

[sehkelly]

I've been busy putting online a few new knitted articles, by the way.

There's a new cashmere-cotton polo shirt, which is achingly soft and slinky. The yarn is spun in Scotland by a place that has specialised in cashmere for many a century, and they've clearly lost none of their skills.

And then the v-neck is back, with a tweak here and there, but otherwise unchanged from last year's eminently smart and serviceable saddle-shouldered mid-weight trans-seasonal mid-layer.

Paul

 

[sehkelly]

... and here's the Chesterfield, in the woollen Bedford cord — a favourite of mine — which ought to be online within a couple of days.

Paul

 

[Macryu]

The Chesterfield looks great. Do you plan to release it in any other fabrics this season?

 

[sehkelly]

The Chesterfield looks great. Do you plan to release it in any other fabrics this season?

No, sir — not this year.

I daresay it will appear in many other materials over the years to come — we tend to stick by a style once it arrives in the collection — but for now, just the one.

Glad you like the look of it.

 

[RozenKristal]

Finally had a bit of a cold snap with weather in the low single digits. The cedar corduroy work jacket has been amazing. It's like walking around in heavy corduroy body armour. The lustre on the cord is hard to describe, would opalescent be over the top? It's such a gorgeous material. The build quality is equally impressive, it feels like it was carved from a block of solid corduroy rather than constructed. Very happy with the purchase.

You gotta see the approval nod of my tailor when he was looking at the jacket to hem up the sleeves for my cord jackets haha.
Anyhow, i hope i can jump on the knitwear wagon next year, and some cord trousers, provided that my current beams plus cord wont make that krit krit sound when walking.

 

[sehkelly]

You gotta see the approval nod of my tailor when he was looking at the jacket to hem up the sleeves for my cord jackets haha.

We have a love-hate relationship with tailors and alterations specialists, at least here in London.

They usually detest the way we make trousers, because they're very tricky to alter, and now increasing so with jackets (again, because things like half-cuffs, semi-raglan shoulders, and open under-arm vents make sleeves quite difficult to shorten).

One man's meat is another man's poison ...

 

[TweedyProf]

I am happy to report that, as expected, the 27oz navy melton peacoat from this season stylishly kept me warm in inclement weather even against a sharp windchill while I stood outside in the cold for a couple of hours. In fact, it was the 18oz denim that I was wearing that was the weak point in keeping out the cold.

 

[vivalavie]

I am very intrigued by the corduroy trousers but am dismayed by the sizing, which jumps straight from 34' to 36'. I am used to trousers with an 88 cm waistband. I see there is a cinch designed into the trousers - would that make the 36' inch trousers wearable, or would they be far too big? Thanks for any help!