Why the collection is built around a shirt you pull on
The Popover is the first thing we made and the last thing we changed. A note on the half placket, and what it is for.
Every collection has one piece it argues from. Ours is a shirt you put on over your head.
The Popover has a camp collar and a half placket — a tonal zip on the olive, four corozo buttons on the ecru. That is a strange combination on paper — the collar says resort, the placket says work shirt — and it is exactly the tension we wanted. Closed to the top it holds a table at dinner. Left open with the sleeves rolled twice it is a Friday. Nothing about it changes except how you wear it.
The body is cut with a dropped shoulder and a longer, curved back hem, so it sits properly untucked without looking like a tunic. We went through eleven versions of that hem. Ten of them made the wearer look shorter.
The linen
It is a European linen at around 185 grams — heavier than the summer linen most brands use, and deliberately so. Light linen photographs beautifully and creases like paper by ten in the morning. This one has enough weight to fall in soft folds rather than sharp ones, and it gets better every wash. Ours is garment-washed once before it reaches you, so day one feels like month three.
The two colours
Olive first, because it is the colour of the collection and looks right against every stone, sand and plaster surface in the Kingdom. Ecru second, because you need a light one. There is no navy on purpose. Navy is what you buy when you have stopped deciding.
Buy the Popover in olive, the Wide Linen Trouser in ecru, and you have most of a summer.
Made for the in-between. This is the piece that phrase was written about.
