If you happen to have a subscription to the FT, you can read an article about Old Town’s sad demise – actually, a well-deserved retirement after a life well lived, making clothes to last.
I lament the fact that nobody has been able to take it on: all that loyalty; such consistent devotion to high quality; it’s hard, apparently impossible, to replicate.
I am one of those people who hopes I have enough corduroy trousers to last me out, plus I can always go back to the green moleskin suit in the cupboard.
The end of cult British brand Old Town – https://on.ft.com/3OodV1r via @FT
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I seem to recall recently seeing an instagram photo of Will and Marie visiting Merchant and Mills in Rye. I do hope that there may be a collaboration in the offing. Merchant and Mills dressmaking patterns and fabric sales seem a pretty good match with Old Town aesthetics and values. And there are plenty of dressmakers, including me, who would relish all that top stitching that Claire Wilcox mentions in the FT article. I do, of course, wish Will and Marie all the best for a future that is less frantic and less stressful.