The Hand
Clothes made by hand, built to be handed down. Sixteen styles across two lines, two drops, and one idea.
Why the collection is called The Hand.
Not a nostalgia collection and not a heritage story. A collection about a garment outliving the child it was bought for.
Made by hand
Crochet worked stitch by stitch. Buttonholes cut and sewn, not punched. Hems slip-stitched so no machine line shows on the face of the cloth.
The hand of the cloth
You can feel how a garment is built before you read a label — the weight of a 10s twill, the nap of a 16-wale cord, the dry finish of peach twill.
The hand-me-down
Every style carries a way to grow, and a way to be repaired. The garment is designed to reach a second child in good condition.
Froebel gave children blocks, and a square of garden.
Friedrich Froebel invented the kindergarten. He gave every child a set of wooden blocks he called gifts, and a small plot of earth to tend. Two ideas: something given, and something grown.
We built the collection on both. One line made of blocks, one grown from the plot. Two hundred years later, a hand-me-down is still a gift.
The Gifts and The Garden
Eight styles each. Different language, same construction, same growth rules.
The same world, one winter apart.
We never restyle the world between drops. The same children return, grown, in the same place.
First Hand
New, given, first. Blocks new in the box, seedlings just planted, cloth clean and pressed.
Second Hand
Kept, mended, second. The tower built and knocked down, the plants grown in, the cloth worn and visibly repaired.
Five things that do a job.
Every style carries a growth mechanism, or it doesn't go in the collection.
Three-line name tape
Inside every collar, ruled for three children. Write the first name and leave the other two.
60mm turn-back hem
Folded inside every trouser and skirt, hand slip-stitched. Unpick and press to grow a size. The old crease stays as evidence a child grew.
Eleven plant patches
45mm squares, machine-embroidered and applied with four corner tacks. Edges free, so a patch moves to the next garment.
Buttonhole ladder
Three buttons on every pinafore and dungaree strap, so the strap climbs as the child does.
Corozo buttons
Turned from the nut, set against hand-worked buttonholes. Replaceable, and they wear in rather than out.
Everything, up close.
The trims are drawn for this collection and made for it. Nothing here is bought by the metre off a shelf.
Five grounds, one accent.
Ochre appears only as thread, binding or pocket bag — never as a ground. No red anywhere, with one exception: the berries on the woven vine tape.
Sixteen styles
Thirty colourways. Sizes 2-3 to 13-14 years. Prices include GST.
Two hundred years later, a hand-me-down is still a gift.
Wash cold. Pass it on.
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