Our first fully new product for Spring/Summer season launches at present: the Ramie shirt. 

Final summer season I discovered I used to be carrying my linen shirts fairly a bit in informal or casual-chic outfits, however they typically felt slightly dressy. Wonderful linens are made to be slightly sharper, significantly with a tie and a jacket, however which means they do get quite a lot of little, sharp folds simply. 

In the hunt for an alternate, we labored with 100 Arms on a summer season shirt that was constituted of a cotton/ramie mix. Ramie is a comparatively underused fibre, partly as a result of the provision isn’t that massive and so costs could be excessive. Nevertheless it has quite a lot of the identical properties as linen, plus an additional softness that provides it a extra informal really feel. 

Ramie has excessive absorbency, like linen and in contrast to cotton, which makes it good for heat climate. It’s additionally sturdy, once more like linen, and really breathable. It’s solely drawback in comparison with linen is it isn’t fairly as cool to the contact.

Mixing the fibre with cotton brings out extra of that softer really feel. Most of us have worn cotton/linen shirts, they usually’re a fantastic different to linen for sensible appears to be like. However they’re fairly sharp, and never the type of factor you’re going to put on casually. With Ramie, the mixture is sort of completely different.

I believe most readers will assume this shirt is constituted of a pleasant, white linen once they first put it on. However once they put on it for a bit they’ll really feel the distinction, and extra so in the course of the day because it creases and softens. 

We had slightly expertise of this already really, as readers who got here to the final pop-up store had an opportunity to strive them on. The store is a superb testing floor, and it was good to see how folks have been, in addition to how a lot their reactions mapped with my very own.

The shirts are made by 100 Arms, like the selvedge chambray, however whoever makes the PS shirts, they’ve the identical match so should you’re a medium in a single, you’ll be a medium in one other*. 

That match I’d describe as reasonably slim, although so many readers have one of many PS shirts now that I believe they know what they’re like and what measurement they’re. There’s additionally extra steerage within the current measurement information article. 

The collar is new for the PS vary, but it surely’s in all probability additionally probably the most customary of them – a really easy semi-spread. With a tie it sits neatly and conservatively across the knot, and with out one the calmly lined building means it varieties a pleasant S-shape, folding beneath the lapel of the jacket. The purpose is 7.5cm lengthy. 

The shirt has no entrance placket, which implies you’ll be able to see all of the hand-sewing work from 100 Arms simply up both aspect of the buttons. The buttons are white mother-of-pearl and it has the identical curved single cuff as the opposite shirts. 

I believe this ought to be a reasonably straightforward one to know among the many numerous issues within the PS assortment, but when not please do ask within the feedback. The shirts value £230 plus VAT and can be found now, in sizes S to XL. In the event that they show well-liked we’ll restock with some XXL as nicely. 

The opposite new factor on the store this week is the PS Shorts, which maybe surprisingly have been the quickest promoting factor final 12 months, and one of many few to fully promote out. 

They continue to be unchanged this 12 months, besides the inexperienced has been changed with a brand new darkish olive. That inexperienced was discontinued sadly, however we took the chance so as to add a extremely darkish shade that works nicely with extra cold-colour items. 

As proven under, the darkish olive is sort of darkish however not black, and works equally good with black and brown leathers (all the time an indicator of versatility). These are two braided leather-based belts of mine, one from Rubato and one an outdated piece from E Tautz. 

The shorts are comparatively mainstream in comparison with some PS gadgets: they sit on the hip with a reasonably straight leg. The product was designed to be a simple, on a regular basis piece and regardless of the occasional tweak through the years, that’s what they continue to be. 

Extra particulars on the shorts could be present in the 2021 article right here. 

The opposite garments proven with the brand new dark-olive shorts are:

• Ralph Lauren cream popover (2023)
• Classic Ralph Lauren cap
• Buddy Optical sun shades 
• Castaner espadrilles
• Classic Japanese gold bracelet

With the Ramie shirt the garments are:

• Bespoke trousers from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury in W Invoice linen
• Brown suede belt from Rubato
• Silk jacket from Sartoria Pirozzi
• Yellow-gold Reverso watch on black alligator strap
• Sun shades as above

*PS Oxford shirts are lower slightly greater to start out with, as they’ve slightly shrinkage. After a few washes they’re the identical measurement as the opposite shirts, as the scale charts point out.