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One of my favourite designers around. , founded by Sara Kelly and Paul Vincent in 2009, make exquisitely well thought-out and detailed clothing using only fabrics and factories from the British Isles. Heritage brands are two for a penny these days but what interests me so much about S.E.H Kelly is the unpretentiousness of the clothing, the attention to form and detail in every piece, the limited runs and how coherent their aesthetic is without being cartoonish or pathetically over-nostalgic. The romance in the clothes with days gone by and the traditional way of making clothes is overt but the clothes don't shove this down your throat (unlike, say, Cabourn where the clothes are very distinctively operating in their own fantasy world).

Let's talk about S.E.H kelly and I'll keep this updated with new products when they get released. I emailed Paul a little while back about my up-coming trip to London and he said that there'll be new releases from mid-August onwards including several new jackets (wool and Ventile), knitwear, more trousers ("traditional"), shirts ("formal") and a trench coat. Should be good.

Their trench coat is under construction at the moment and they're working with a manufacturer of custom brass buckles in the Black Country.

And here's my in action.





Side entry pockets

I thought it was funny when I asked him to make a harrington and he said there's no zip makers in england so they'll never make anything with a zip.

Haha, perfect.

Kinda happy, good buttons are much more interesting things to me.

do love me some creamy white buttons

says this is done by a one man mill.

"Best expletive cloth expletive yet says one-man-mill as rope-dyed herringbone indigo comes back from finisher."

seh kelly twitter feed reads really weird actually. Super abrupt. Like it's written by an old school style robot.

Yeah, pretty sure it's Paul who does everything pr-ish.

I really hope I can avoid spending all of money on jackets when I visit in London, I need non-jacket things but these are so pretty.

touched up a ventile cameraman in flanells in burham. Just felt like really thin cotton, was amazing.

Two new goodies:











in navy and

ugh that charcoal cardigan is super tempting. dunno if it's better or worse knowing that it's not going to go on sale.

That price is comical.

Not such a surprise, but it is a lot more than the other cardigans (consistent with the other lambswool pieces though). I'm probably not going to bite for that price but it does look mighty nice. No seams, pockets with different stitching, presumably very lovely wool etc.

i'm beginning to develop an irrational dislike of how seemingly every collar/pocket flap/etc on an SEH piece is rounded, exaggeratedly so. there's a fine line between branding-through-design making clothes for cartoon characters imo

On the contrast, I like the idea of being a cartoon character.

I think that collar would have a nice place on some kind of flight/aviator jacket but on that wool joint (along w the ribbed cuffs) I would not pay retail for it

I really like the S.E.H Kelly aesthetic overall but I sort of never like the pieces when I see them on their own.

Gonna kill your layering game if they're as warm as they say they are.

What if I don't have game?

that jumper looks great and comfy but also very impractical, unless you live in antarctica

Looks great. Insane texture.

does everything actually fit that rotund or is that just the mannequin?

texture on that jacket is outrageously cool.

The mannequins are rubinesque

I'm so happy that I'm not interested in peacoats because these look really lovely but I can't afford it right now. Love how it looks on the model rather - there's a very nice shape to the whole affair. Not easy to do with such a thick tweed.