Eugène Le Moult had our original SMOKING-JACKET made to wear on the ocean-liner, and to avoid tobacco on his suit, or pyjama. Idle chatter wasn't for him, but smoking or drinking certainly were; we found the SMOKING-JACKET 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-Thick in nearby villages to P.Le Moult designs
• sewn up the coast in cosmopolitan Bombay
• in the workshop of close friends that our family has been producing with since the early 1970s : you can also buy this at MATCHES FASHION

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