DOUBLE CUFF MANDOLIN POCKETSHIRT / RED OCHRE

TYPE 453 DOUBLE CUFF MANDOLIN POCKET SHIRT

The Mandolin Pocket Shirt is cut with seams along the front body and sleeve,and the back body and sleeve,with a single very long narrow strip that runs from the cuff,up the sleeve, down the side of the body,zigzagging back on itself to form a side hand pocket.This panel piece makes good use of the narrow rolls of fabric, and creates a minimalist pocket, similar to 2018´s Tesseract Shirt,and reminiscent of the traditional mandolin vegetable slicing tool.

The seam ends at the cuffs and hem are split open,so the shirt has a double cuff, with two buttons and two sets of pleats on each hand,and four side splits.

Shirts are sewn with ecru 100 % cotton thread and fastened with black melamine Savile Row tailor´s fly buttons.

100 % bleached weft stripe cotton canvas

Hand dyed

Color: RED OCHRE

Made in England

RED OCHRE

Red ochre is a naturally occurring earth pigment which gains its colour from hydrated iron oxide (rust). Other impurities give it tones ranging from yellows to purples. Ochre has a rich artistic history which goes back into prehistory: Blombos Cave outside Cape Town in South Africa has designs drawn on its walls in red ochre which date back around 75000 years.The cave paintings at Lascaux, France, are largely executed in ochre.

More recently, in the 18th Century, English fishing boats had their sails ‘barked’ with a mixture of tar, oak bark liquor, fat, and ochre, in order to protect the fabric from sea water.This had the side effect of staining them a deep red- the same colour as these garments.