Japan Registration

It has taken sometime but now the brand is registered in Japan - there is something very professional, proud and old school about the way the Japanese send you confirmation of the registration versus European registration.

S/S11 Looks - preview of the styles we are selling in now

1950"s Hunting Jacket - Game or Poachers Pocket Detail from the Archives

Traditional Pattern Cutting

Friday afternoon time for some old school pattern cutting

Rolex Edmund Hillary

Rolex warn by Edmund Hillary when ascending Everest

The start - Inspiration Sir Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary led the New Zealand component of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) in 1955-58, under the overall command of the British explorer Dr Vivian Fuchs. The Commonwealth-sponsored expedition successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole, on 2 March 1958. The New Zealanders supported the expedition by setting up Scott Base, and laying food and fuel depots for the British crossing party. Then, against the instructions of the Ross Sea Committee, Hillary led a ‘dash to the pole'. On 4 January 1958 they became the first party to reach the South Pole overland since Scott in 1912, and the first to reach it in motor vehicles, in New Zealand the "dash for the pole"  reinforced his position as a national hero.