Our Autumn/Winter 24 collection of shirting underlines Oli's approach to textural fabrics and superior cloths. We can all recognise the importance of the shirt in a modern menswear wardrobe, and in the colder months, texture becomes ever more style defining. Gone are the lightweight cottons and linens of the summer months, and in their place are midweight cottons, Oxford cloths, corduroys, and brushed cottons, all used to add that little extra warmth and to deliver a subtle textural shift. We've highlighted five fabrics that are essential for elevating your cold-weather outfits, each embracing a rich autumnal colour palette for a cosy look and feel.
Mersey Cord
Corduroy has become such a key autumn and winter fabric, after spending many years in fashion's graveyard! Unfairly maligned, corduroy is a brilliant cloth for introducing texture and tactility to your outfits. Our Mersey cord is constructed from a fine wale cotton corduroy so from a distance you can't really see the wales, it's only when you get up close that you realise it's corduroy. The fabric is incredibly soft, and the micro wales to a great job of reacting to the light, creating a palpable sense of depth in the fabric.
Westwick
Constructed from a premium cotton, the Westwick fabric is a stunning olive green and aubergine check that we have used to craft both our preppy button-down Brook shirt as well as our Treviscoe overshirt. Were as other shirts might focus more on the texture, the Westwick lets the check pattern do all the heavy lifting. The combination of the autumnal tones give a real sense of warmth, and are surprising easy to style with other deep tones as well as a light palette of cream or white.
Wyatt
The Wyatt is one of our key winter shirting fabrics this season, constructed from 100% cotton with a subtle herringbone weave that gives the cloth the slightest hint of a raised nap. It's beautifully soft, with a very natural drape across the shoulders. We've used it to create a three colour variations of our New York Special shirt, which was influenced by a shirt David Byrne wore in the seminal 1984 concert film 'Stop Making Sense.'
Indigo
