Tender has its roots in antique workwear and machinery, especially from the Great British Steam Age. An important face of Tender’s English–made clothing is the nurture which is put into the clothes: in their research, design, manufacture and wear. Tender’s goal is for the owner to live with their clothes, wearing them hard, but respecting their provenance and the stories they have to tell.
Type 471 Rinsed Doppler Stripe Cotton Cambric Plastron Shirt
A plastron is a chest covering which sits over a lower layer. The same term is used to describe a fencer’s chest pad, an armoured breastplate, and a tortoise’s belly. The Plastron shirt is cut with large pleats set under the armholes, forming a pseudoplastron across the chest.
The pleats add volume into the skirt of the garment, which is cut without side seams, so that the tails hang freely without weight or stiffness. A single chest pocket on the left and full tailored cuff plackets behind the wrist refer to more traditional shirt making.
Buttons are real shell interpretations of a standard cats eye button, and the whole garment is sewn with cotton thread.
Type 439 Black Hole Doppler Stripe Cotton Cambric Stole Pocket Butterfly
Fabrics woven in England / Rinsed to shrink /Full pleated cuffs / Real shell cats eye buttons
100% cotton thread shrunk to form puckered seams
Made in USA
