Hidden Stitch Supply Journal
The working lives of familiar clothes.
From exposed decks to factory floors, the clothes we love have stories to tell. Follow their origins through old photographs, practical details and the people who wore them.
By Mark
Pockets, Paperwork and the Laundry
A colour number became a menswear name. Follow OG-107 fatigue pants through the cotton sateen story, Army fabric tests, everyday jobs and a machine built to wash 400 garments an hour.
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By Mark
Pockets, Patents and Doing Your Own Thing
A tailor’s rivets, a courtroom dispute, shirt collars and patched-up road trips. Follow the useful, surprising details behind the jeans we wear today.
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By Mark
Pockets, Work and an Unlikely Parade
French factory jackets, beer-stained student clothes and a 1920 parade against expensive clothing. The surprisingly eventful history of the everyday chore coat.
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By Mark
From Oilskins to the Bedale and Beaufort
From fishermen’s oilskins to motorcycle trials and submarine deck suits: the surprising history behind waxed jackets, the Barbour Bedale and Beaufort, and today’s NON-STOCK hunting jacket.
Read the storyOld photographs, museum records and the jobs these clothes were made for.
Why a collar, pocket or cut became part of a familiar design.
How those ideas carry into the garments in the Hidden Stitch Supply range.