Nîmes Jacket - M sesami-service Durable construction with distinctive wear

Durable construction with distinctive wear and mending showing traditional agricultural craftsmanship and the resourcefulness of rural life in France

A midweight engineer jacket cut from 10

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Printed in my workshop in a small run

Nîmes Jacket - M sesami-service Durable construction with distinctive wearOne of one c. 18001900 Nmes, France Provenance Cut from a 19th century mattress cover woven in Toile de Nmes the durable twill cloth that gave denim its name. Made to contain a feather mattress: sealed under a sleeping body night after night, year after year. It was workwear fabric repurposed for the bedroom, chosen for the same reason it was chosen for the fields it held up. The cloth was never meant to be anything other than functional. That it