Every now and then I get an idea in my head about the sort of clothes I’d like to wear. First I look for existing sewing patterns, and then I think I might draft something for myself. And then I have another little look around the internet, and discover that somebody else has already done all the hard work for me.
This is Old Town.
They have a beautifully simple website, and beautifully simple clothes. They’re old-fashioned without being anachronistic, and I’d quite like one of everything, please.
Old Town are a small clothing manufacturer. They produce around 50 garments per week from their own workshop in Norfolk, and they use British cottons, woollens and linens wherever possible. Instead of a blog, they have a PDF newspaper, the Old Town Evening Star. I particularly like the “Trouser Forecast” in issue three, and their article onFabric, form and fictional pasts is exactly the sort of thing I wish I’d written myself. Lovely.