8977 SHIRT BLACK-Grey-white 100% COTTON Herringbone-light Regimental-M-Stripes fabric-dyed

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...)

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

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

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

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