The favored PS Watch Caps and unique Arran scarves from Begg & Co – launched final 12 months – have simply been restocked on the PS Store, with two extra colors.
It was an actual battle final 12 months to get issues in on time, with delays not simply with the mills however the spinners and uncooked supplies. All the things stacked up, amounting to weeks of delay.
So this 12 months we’ve tried to get forward of ourselves, and a few of these Autumn/Winter PS staples are arriving now, moderately than say November. We’ve additionally ordered extra, so hopefully they’ll be out there via into the brand new 12 months.
First to reach was the Bridge Coats a few weeks in the past, now the scarves and hats, and the Wax Walkers will likely be arriving quickly too.
I’m actually happy with how well-liked the watch caps have turn into, and now see them recurrently round in London.
The straightforward pitch of a smaller dimension that sits neatly on the top, and subsequently seems extra put collectively, appears to enchantment to guys that have to put on one thing, however aren’t going to put on a fedora or a baseball cap. It’s good that it rolls up in a pocket simply too.
This 12 months we’ve added black to the combo, which in all probability received’t shock readers given how a lot of that (non-)color I’ve been displaying lately.
I see the black as a direct swap for navy – one which will likely be sensible and darkish, however truly swimsuit some colors extra, such because the colder and extra muted ones we’ve spoken about up to now (darkish olives, chilly browns, greys, taupes).
You possibly can see that notably within the photos above and beneath, the place the black watch cap is worn with the very dark-brown Wax Walker. It’s higher there than navy could be, and that’d be the identical with the brown Donegal Coat too.
The scarves have been an fascinating one. I wasn’t certain how effectively they’d do, given they have been simply colors within the traditional Begg & Co ‘Arran’ high quality that the corporate didn’t provide, or had discontinued.
However we ended up scrambling a second order in January as the primary batch all offered out in a few weeks.
I assume that was partly as a result of I’ve talked about and worn the Arran a lot through the years, and readers recognized with the dearth of a darker navy or olive inexperienced in the remainder of the Begg assortment – which, to be truthful, has to straddle a variety of shoppers from on a regular basis to excessive trend, female and male.
Impressed by that success, this 12 months I spent some time going via all the opposite yarns that weren’t being provided in Begg’s assortment.
There have been just a few I preferred, and maybe a few of them will make an look sooner or later. However my favorite was the ‘clay’ gray you see above.
One situation I’ve with carrying darkish, muted colors, is that all the pieces can turn into a bit washed out – too black-and-white. It’s one cause a cream shirt would possibly look higher with black tailoring, for instance – as right here with black cords.
In footwear, Alden’s Colour 8 cordovan does the identical job. It may be worn in just about each scenario the place you’d in any other case put on black footwear. However darkish as Colour 8 is, it’s not black. There may be some pigmentation in there, some richness.
This clay color does the identical with gray. It nonetheless works in any scenario the place you’d usually put on a gray scarf, however it additionally provides heat to these very tonal combos. You possibly can see this notably with white shirts (as pictured).
Yet one more approach to put it – it’s like the gray high-twist suitings I like from Drapers. There’s some brown in that gray.
The scarves can be found on the PS Store now in clay, darkish navy and olive (final two pictured above).
The watch caps – additionally made in Scotland, by Johnston’s of Elgin – are now out there in 5 colors. Historic photographs of these additionally beneath.
We have now needed to put up costs very barely this 12 months, to replicate our rising prices. However as all the time, that is the one cause we put them up and we’re all the time up entrance about it.
Any questions on that or the deserves of a selected color, simply drop me a line within the feedback beneath. For the remainder of what’s developing, when, see final week’s Autumn/Winter abstract.
