Eugène Le Moult had our original PYJAMA made to sleep in his tent in the Amazonian jungle¹. The waist of the trousers has elastic on both sides, but none in the front, for comfort whilst sleeping. The buttons are mother of pearl.
¹ he'd be here hunting butterflies with the aid of convicts, both revolutionaries and cut-throats
(We found the PYJAMA in the wardrobe of dad's grand-dad, the WORLDS's №1 butterfly hunter)
STYLE : The « Belle Époque » was France's era of optimism and affluence around the 1900s, when art and culture - including a culture of light-hearted, public entertainment - were able to develop particularly intensively and diversely
FABRIC : 100%ᴾᵁᴿᴱ Southern-Indian COTTON
• from fields SUSTAINABLY growing cotton for the Roman Empire since 35AD
• woven as Herringbone-light to P.Le Moult designs in nearby villages¹
• sewn up the coast in cosmopolitan Bombay²
¹ by English-speaking unionized weavers, in a state that has been alternating between soft-Left and hard-Left coalitions since 1957...
² in the also English-speaking workshop of close friends that we've been producing with since the early 1970s, conveniently easy-to-inspect on the main highway, a 20 minutes drive North of the international airport
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