Size: 2/S

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, 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.

This plain weave mid-weight canvas is woven on an ecru cotton warp, with alternating weft stripes of the same ecru yarn and a corresponding yarn that has been bleached white. This creates a delicate horizontal tonal stripe visible on the rinsed cloth as a colour difference, and in dyed garments as a subtle tonal and textural variation.

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.

100% Cotton

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