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Clothes made by hand, built to be handed down.
Autumn Winter 26 · First Hand

Clothes made by hand, built to be handed down.

Sixteen styles built around a hem that lets down, a patch held by four stitches, and a name tape ruled for three children.

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Gifting

Arrive already wrapped.

Tick one box in the bag and the order leaves us as a gift: in the green box, nested in paper, with your note written out by hand.

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Three lines inside every collar.
The second name

Three lines inside every collar.

Two hundred years ago Friedrich Froebel gave children wooden blocks he called gifts, and gave every child a square of garden to tend. We took the two ideas and built a collection on them.

Inside every collar is a tape ruled with three lines — one for each child who wears the garment. Write the first name. Leave the other two.

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Two lines, one collection

The Gifts and The Garden

One line built from blocks — grids, modules, things made and remade. One grown from a plot — plants, tending, things that change with time.

Every order can leave as a gift.
Gifting · order by 26 October

Every order can leave as a gift.

Tick one box in the bag. It goes in the green box, nested in paper, with the cotton bag and your note written out by hand. ₹499, whatever is in the order, and no prices in the parcel.

Sold on construction

Four things you can feel.

Nothing here is decoration. Every detail is doing a job — growing, repairing, or outlasting the child it was bought for.

Plant patches
01

Plant patches

Eleven plants, 45mm square, machine-embroidered and hand-applied with four corner tacks. Edges left free, so a patch lifts off and moves to the next garment.

Hand crochet
02

Hand crochet

Picot edging worked by hand at the collar and a filet mesh pocket. Not a trim bought in by the metre — a person sat and made it.

Corozo, not plastic
03

Corozo, not plastic

Buttons turned from the corozo nut, set against hand-worked buttonholes. They wear in rather than out, and they can be replaced.

The three-line name tape
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The three-line name tape

A tape ruled with three lines inside every collar — one for each child who wears the garment. Write the first name and leave the other two.

Built to grow

One size more, without buying again.

Every style in AW26 carries a growth mechanism, or it didn't go into the collection. Four of them, used in different combinations depending on the garment.

  • Hem60mm folded inside every trouser and skirt, hand slip-stitched. Unpick, press, and the garment is a size longer.
  • StrapsThree buttons on every pinafore and dungaree strap, so the strap climbs as the child does.
  • WaistInternal tape adjusts a full size either way without bunching the fit.
  • Name tapeThree ruled lines inside the collar. Write the first name and leave the other two.
Closed
Closed
Unpicked
Unpicked
Let down
Let down

Two hundred years later, a hand-me-down is still a gift.

On Froebel, and why this collection exists
The same clothes, one winter on.
December · Second Hand

The same clothes, one winter on.

The second drop is about what happens after. Hems let down, patches moved, sashiko where a knee gave way. Same children, grown.

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