After a dayLinen Relaxed
$84
Away from the body.
160 g/m² · Plain weave
Airflow5 of 5
Creasing5 of 5
Woven summer shirts/Linen · Linen-cotton · Fine cotton
The same shirt,
twice a day.
At noon you can see how much light gets through the cloth. At dusk you can see how it falls. We photograph both, and we do not press it in between.
Change the light. The whole shop changes with it.
- Hour
- 12:40
- Sun angle
- 78°
- Through the cloth
- High
- What you see
- Weave
130 g/m² pure linen · one breeze · no wind machine
01 / Why airflow
A shirt is a
filter you wear.
Two things decide whether you are comfortable at three in the afternoon: how much air gets through the cloth, and whether the cloth is touching you when it does. Weight and weave settle the first. Cut and structure settle the second. Everything in this shop is described in those terms.
02
How we grade
Two numbers,
and what they are not.
We rate every shirt from one to five on how much air moves through it and on how readily it holds a fold. Both are relative positions inside this catalogue — a five for airflow means the most open thing we weave, not a figure from a laboratory.
Airflow
Driven by weight and by how open the structure is. A 130 g/m² plain-weave linen sits at five. A 175 g/m² oxford sits at two.
Linen Classic 1305 of 5
Blend 55/454 of 5
Blend Oxford2 of 5
Creasing
Driven by fibre. Flax folds and stays folded; cotton recovers; a puckered structure never looked flat to begin with.
Linen Classic 1305 of 5
Cotton Twill2 of 5
Cotton Seersucker1 of 5
PressedAfter a day
03 / After a day
We photograph
the worn one.
Linen creases. It creases more in humidity and less after the third wash. The industry answer is to press the shirt, shoot it in ninety seconds and let you find out at a wedding.
On every shirt here that contains flax, the first photograph you see is the one taken at the end of a day of wear. The pressed frame is still there, second, if you want it.
Read the fabric notes04
Eight cloths
Light, at the same distance.
Each of these was shot on the same wall, at the same distance, under the same lamp. The only difference between the frames is the cloth.
Pure linen 130130 g/m²Light floods straight through. The most open thing we weave.
Pure linen 200200 g/m²Same light, same distance. Almost nothing gets past it.
Cotton voile85 g/m²Cotton spun fine enough to behave like flax under a lamp.
Linen-cotton 55/45150 g/m²Irregular flax against round cotton, in the same cloth.
Slub blend160 g/m²Yarn that thickens and thins on purpose, so folds land in the texture.
Poplin 120110 g/m²Flat, closed, regular. Drape instead of body.
Seersucker130 g/m²Woven at two tensions so only the ridges touch you.
Oxford175 g/m²Paired threads in a basket. The one with enough body for a jacket.
05
Six lines
Sorted by what
they are made of.
06 / Airflow Finder
It asks what you
cannot put up with.
Not your style, not your colour. Three questions about where you are, what would stop you wearing a shirt again, and what the day is. If you say you cannot stand creasing, the entire pure linen line disappears and the results tell you so.
Open the finder- Dry heat, or humid?
- Sweat, creases, or seeing through it?
- Ordinary day, or a wedding?
07
Six of forty-two
Where most people start.
Prices run from $54 to $398 in US Dollar (USD), tax included. Every shirt is a one-time purchase; there is no membership and nothing recurring.
After a day
Cotton Seersucker
$92
The structure holds it off you.
130 g/m² · Seersucker
Airflow4 of 5
Creasing1 of 5
After a dayCamp Linen
$78
The holiday default.
140 g/m² · Plain weave
Airflow5 of 5
Creasing5 of 5
After a dayBlend Chambray
$78
Dark without going opaque.
155 g/m² · Chambray
Airflow3 of 5
Creasing2 of 5
After a dayWedding Guest Linen
$128
The outdoor ceremony.
140 g/m² · Plain weave
Airflow5 of 5
Creasing4 of 5
After a dayLinen Heavy 200
$118
Opaque, wears alone.
200 g/m² · Plain weave
Airflow3 of 5
Creasing4 of 5
08
Sets
Packed by trip.
Three or four shirts chosen for a specific stretch of the year. Each set costs less than buying the same shirts one at a time, and the saving is shown on the page.
After a dayHeat Wave Set
$188
The two hottest weeks.
3 shirts
Airflow5 of 5
Creasing5 of 5
After a dayOffice Summer Set
$178
Summer commuting.
3 shirts
Airflow3 of 5
Creasing2 of 5
After a dayFabric Trial Set
$138
Three cloths, one order.
3 shirts
Airflow5 of 5
Creasing4 of 5
09
Plainly
Four things we will not tell you.
Where it is actually made
Every shirt states two countries: where the cloth was woven and where the garment was cut and sewn. They are often different, and we print both rather than the more flattering one.
Nothing here is wrinkle-free
We make no easy-care claim on any product. Linen creases; the blends crease less; the twill and the seersucker barely crease at all. The rating on each shirt is the whole of what we will say about it.
The ratings are ours
Airflow and creasing are our own relative ratings across this catalogue, not laboratory measurements.
No health or environmental claims
These are shirts. They are not antibacterial, they do not protect you from ultraviolet light, and we will not describe a cotton field as sustainable in order to sell you one.