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Praline Le Moult

8928 GRANDDAD-LONGSHIRT BLACK-White-grey with WHITE piping 100% COTTON Herringbone-light Regimental-S-Stripes

8928 GRANDDAD-LONGSHIRT BLACK-White-grey with WHITE piping 100% COTTON Herringbone-light Regimental-S-Stripes

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SIZE

Our GRANDAD's LONGSHIRT¹ has a round flat collar, side-slits and gather in back, with small mother-of-pearl buttons. Good to sleep in or wear as a kaftan/dress in Summer.

¹ Eugène Le Moult had recycled a long formal shirt into our original LONGSHIRT for his weekend house, on the edge of the Champagne



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MATERIAL

100%ᴾᵁᴿᴱ  Southern-Indian COTTON (as in the authentic British home-wear before 1947)
• from fields SUSTAINABLY growing cotton since at least 35AD (according to Roman Empire trade records)
• woven as in the original HERRINGBONE-LIGHT weave to P.Le Moult designs in nearby villages by English-speaking unionized craftspeople, descendants of the original weavers (in a state that has been alternating between soft-Left and hard-Left coalitions since 1957...)

MANUFACTURE

sewn up the coast in cosmopolitan Bombay in the English-speaking unionised 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

HERITAGE

EUGÈNE LE MOULT, BUTTERFLY-HUNTER 1882-1965 : we inherited dad's grandad's shapes
LÉOPOLD LE MOULT, PIONEER OF FRENCH ORGANIC 1856-1926 : we inherited grandad's grandad's ideals

CREATOR

PRALINE  LE MOULT : A graduate of both CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS and Head Alumni at the ÉCOLE des BEAUX-ARTS de PARIS, winner of the 2005 LVMH Young Creatives Prize, Praline draws on her family history to create what she describes as ‘home-adventure-wear in retro cuts’.

STYLE

for long weekends, Eugène Le Moult would drive to his château in the Auvergne, France’s volcanic region ( rather than to the country house mid-way to the Champagne ). Here he’d be sequestered with his notable guests puffing on cigars and quaffing cognac

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