Eugène Le Moult adapted a late 19th Century office shirt as our original LONG-NIGHT-SHIRT for his weekend house, on the edge of the Champagne
(We found the LONG-NIGHT-SHIRT in the wardrobe of dad's grand-dad, the WORLDS's №1 butterfly hunter)
STYLE : The naturalist E.Le Moult was for decades the sole scientific explorer of the iconic blue Morpho butterfly in its habitat on the Amazon delta
FABRIC : 100%ᴾᵁᴿᴱ Southern-Indian COTTON
• from fields SUSTAINABLY growing cotton for the Roman Empire since 35AD
• woven as Popeline 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
You can also buy this at YAGI TSUSHO : URBAN RESEARCH DEPT-S1 / PUTERA
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