Our first fully new product for Spring/Summer season launches at present: the Ramie shirt.
Final summer season I discovered I used to be carrying my linen shirts fairly a bit in informal or casual-chic outfits, however they usually felt somewhat dressy. Advantageous linens are made to be somewhat sharper, notably with a tie and a jacket, however meaning they do get a variety of little, sharp folds simply.
Seeking another, we labored with 100 Palms on a summer season shirt that was made out of a cotton/ramie mix. Ramie is a comparatively underused fibre, partly as a result of the availability isn’t that large and so costs might be excessive. However it has a variety of the identical properties as linen, plus an additional softness that offers it a extra informal really feel.
Ramie has excessive absorbency, like linen and in contrast to cotton, which makes it good for heat climate. It’s additionally sturdy, once more like linen, and really breathable. It’s solely drawback in comparison with linen is it isn’t fairly as cool to the contact.
Mixing the fibre with cotton brings out extra of that softer really feel. Most of us have worn cotton/linen shirts, and so they’re an ideal different to linen for sensible appears. However they’re fairly sharp, and never the sort of factor you’re going to put on casually. With Ramie, the mixture is sort of completely different.
I feel most readers will assume this shirt is made out of a pleasant, white linen once they first put it on. However once they put on it for a bit they’ll really feel the distinction, and extra so through the day because it creases and softens.
We had somewhat expertise of this already truly, as readers who got here to the final pop-up store had an opportunity to strive them on. The store is a superb testing floor, and it was good to see how individuals had been, in addition to how a lot their reactions mapped with my very own.
The shirts are made by 100 Palms, like the selvedge chambray, however whoever makes the PS shirts, they’ve the identical match so when you’re a medium in a single, you’ll be a medium in one other*.
That match I’d describe as reasonably slim, although so many readers have one of many PS shirts now that I feel they know what they’re like and what dimension they’re. There’s additionally extra steerage within the latest dimension information article.
The collar is new for the PS vary, nevertheless it’s most likely additionally probably the most normal of them – a really simple semi-spread. With a tie it sits neatly and conservatively across the knot, and with out one the frivolously lined development means it kinds a pleasant S-shape, folding beneath the lapel of the jacket. The purpose is 7.5cm lengthy.
The shirt has no entrance placket, which implies you may see all of the hand-sewing work from 100 Palms simply up both facet of the buttons. The buttons are white mother-of-pearl and it has the identical curved single cuff as the opposite shirts.
I feel this ought to be a reasonably simple one to grasp among the many varied issues within the PS assortment, but when not please do ask within the feedback. The shirts value £230 plus VAT and can be found now, in sizes S to XL. In the event that they show in style we’ll restock with some XXL as nicely.
The opposite new factor on the store this week is the PS Shorts, which maybe surprisingly had been the quickest promoting factor final 12 months, and one of many few to fully promote out.
They continue to be unchanged this 12 months, besides the inexperienced has been changed with a brand new darkish olive. That inexperienced was discontinued sadly, however we took the chance so as to add a extremely darkish shade that works nicely with extra cold-colour items.
As proven beneath, the darkish olive is sort of darkish however not black, and works equally good with black and brown leathers (at all times an indicator of versatility). These are two braided leather-based belts of mine, one from Rubato and one an outdated piece from E Tautz.
The shorts are comparatively mainstream in comparison with some PS gadgets: they sit on the hip with a reasonably straight leg. The product was designed to be a straightforward, on a regular basis piece and regardless of the occasional tweak over time, that’s what they continue to be.
Extra particulars on the shorts might be present in the 2021 article right here.
The opposite garments proven with the brand new dark-olive shorts are:
- Ralph Lauren cream popover (2023)
- Classic Ralph Lauren cap
- Buddy Optical sun shades
- Castaner espadrilles
- Classic Japanese gold bracelet
With the Ramie shirt the garments are:
- Bespoke trousers from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury in W Invoice linen
- Brown suede belt from Rubato
- Silk jacket from Sartoria Pirozzi
- Yellow-gold Reverso watch on black alligator strap
- Sun shades as above
*PS Oxford shirts are reduce somewhat larger to begin with, as they’ve somewhat shrinkage. After a few washes they’re the identical dimension as the opposite shirts, as the scale charts point out.
