It’s always a joy to see a garment coming out of the workshop and onto the shop floor. Jackets, smocks, trousers, dungarees and pinafores all made with exceptional care. Handmade and made to measure is what our business is all about as well as providing good quality and long lasting clothing for all. More socks have been ordered from our British manufacturer and extra jumpers about to appear on the shelves. Bucket hats in cotton and dry wax fabric are still very popular with most of ours being individual and unique. Our Gilet is the sort of garment everyone should wear at this time of year providing a smart and practical bespoke look, ideal with jumpers hats and scarves.
Autumn is here and a perfect time for our Smocks and Jackets, not to be hidden away in the wardrobe but used everyday. A selection of jumpers on the shop floor includes traditional Guernsey jumpers and warm Lambswool jumpers in a variety of colours. The shop is looking great and is a welcome sight when unlocking the door in the morning and greeting customers.
Blackshore has emerged once again and is living and breathing with new life, the shop is busy and we are welcoming customers from near and far. Our Reydon Shirt designed and made in-house was added to the collection this summer and we have just launched a gorgeous Gilet. Our core coastal range continues with the popular traditional smocks and jackets. The Walberswick trousers along with all our garments are being made using the same care and attention as always. The unique Blackshore workshop is producing bespoke and made to measure as well as stocking the Blackshore shop with the popular Chore jackets and Suffolk smocks alongside all our other garments including our popular Bucket and Watchman's hats. We are immensely...
Simon Middleton writes... I'm certain that the global health crisis will help to shift people’s thinking about where and how certain kinds of products are made.
We’ve come to realise like never before that the things we all tended to take for granted, such as the NHS, and food supply, are actually things of existential importance that we have to be enormously grateful for.
Visitors to the Blackshore workshop-with-store in Southwold are not only fascinated and delighted to find that the company makes half of its products in their own sewing room, but are frequently surprised to discover that there is still a textle and apparel industry continuing to thrive in the UK at all. Those not involved in the industry have got so used to the idea that the majority of clothes and fabrics are made overseas, that it’s easy for them to assume that ‘made in Britain’ only applies to specialist areas like Saville Row tailoring. Although it’s true that the vast majority of British textile and apparel manufacture went overseas over the last three decades, there is something of a revival,...
