Ready to ship
Lodhi Jacket
₹32,400
Single-breasted, unlined, in surplus wool suiting.
Deadstock fabric · Charcoal wool suiting
Enough fabric left for 4 pieces
Surplus fabric · Made in India
Fewer clothes,
made far better.
Womenswear cut from surplus fabric — the rolls mills and fashion houses leave behind. One roll makes a handful of garments, then it is gone.
- Ready to ship
- Cut, finished and waiting. Dispatched within two working days.
- Cut to your measure
- Cut from what is left of the same fabric, to your measurements. Three to five weeks.
- 100%
- Surplus or natural fabric
- 8–30
- Garments per roll
- 2
- Ways to have it
- 1
- Free alteration, first year
Left behind by mills and fashion houses. Where none suits the garment, natural fibres — never synthetics.
When the roll is used up, the garment is retired. We do not remake it in another fabric.
Take a finished piece, sent in two working days. Or cut to your measurements in three to five weeks.
Bodies change. Seams carry allowance to be let out twice, and hems are left deep on purpose.
The collection
Four pieces, and what is left of each fabric.
Every piece names the roll it came from. When that roll is finished, the piece goes with it.
Where the fabric comes from
The industry makes more fabric than it uses. We start there.
Mills weave more than the order calls for. Collections get cancelled after the fabric is finished. Houses over-buy and hold the remainder for years. All of it is finished, inspected cloth with nowhere to go.
We buy those part-rolls, one at a time, in whatever quantity exists. That is the constraint the whole house is built around: a roll of 40 metres makes about fifteen trousers, so fifteen is the run. There is no version of this where we make two hundred.
When nothing surplus suits a garment — the wrong weight, the wrong handle, the wrong width — we buy new, and only ever cotton, silk, linen, hemp or bamboo. No polyester, no nylon, no recycled plastic dressed up as a virtue. The single exception is a technical component with no natural equivalent, and when that happens the product page names it.
01The fabric
Surplus rolls left behind by mills and fashion houses. When none suits the garment, natural fibres and nothing else.
02The making
A handful of garments per roll. We hold fabric back so the piece can still be cut to your measurements later.
03The wearing
Seams that can be let out, hems deep enough to change, and repairs for as long as you keep it.
On what it costs
It costs more because more of it is work.
Most clothing is priced down to a target and built backwards from there. We price up from what the garment takes: the fabric, the hours, the allowances we leave in, the repairs we expect to make.
The usual way
How we do it
Hems folded once, about a centimetre. Shortened once, never lengthened.
Hems left 5–6 cm deep, so the length can change twice in the garment's life.
Side seams cut with 1 cm allowance. No room to adjust.
4 cm at the side seams, enough to be let out twice as a body changes.
Fronts and collars fused with glue, which bubbles after a few cleans.
Woven cotton interlining, stitched in. It softens rather than failing.
Buttons moulded from polyester to resemble horn or shell.
Reclaimed horn, shell and brass, graded into matched sets by hand.
Repairs are not offered. The garment is designed to be replaced.
Repairs offered for as long as you own it, at cost.
How would you like it made?
Take the one that exists, or have it cut for you.
Same fabric, same hands, same price. The only difference is whether it already exists.
Ready to ship
A piece from the cut run, in the sizes we made. Packed and sent within two working days, returnable unworn for fourteen.
In stock · dispatched in 2 working days
Cut to your measure
Your measurements, cut from what remains of the same roll. Three to five weeks, one free alteration once it arrives.
Cut to measure · ready in 3–5 weeks
We would rather make eleven of something properly than two hundred of it quickly.
The journal
Notes from the workroom.
What we found, what it cost, and how it was made. Specifics rather than sentiment.
