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P.Le Moult

8959 PRINCE-SHIRT OFFWHITE with WHITE-Coffee piping 100% COTTON Hand-weave

8959 PRINCE-SHIRT OFFWHITE with WHITE-Coffee piping 100% COTTON Hand-weave

Regular price €212,00 EUR
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SIZE

Our PRINCE's SHIRT is a voluminous night-shirt¹ with romantic details: a small shawl-collar, and gathers at the cuffs, underlined by thin piping and more gather in the center-back, one mother-of-pearl button

¹ a painter’s blouse seems to have inspired Eugène Le Moult here

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 HAND-WEAVE 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

PROJET LE MOULT
⸰ cuts from 1900-1950
⸰ originally designed for the adventurer Eugène Le Moult
⸰ rereleased in contemporary motives
⸰ by his great-grand-daughter
⸰ genderfree for ladies and gents
⸰ in the original fabric and weaves from before 1947: 100% South-Indian cotton

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

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