2 Pocket RN Work Shirt

I've one of those perfect vintage CPOs - washed for ages, cut from the ultimate cotton twill, with just enough life in it to get me through perhaps a couple more autumns. 

Obviously I wanted to do the L.E.J version. Et voilà! Just like that, as if we didn't try (and yet, we really tried!!) here she is. 

Dusty, shimmering, delicately coloured, hazy, soft, and drape-y. The outward simplicity belies the complexity within. We burnt many candles to figure out the perfect scale of twill, the optimum balance of fibres + tension - cotton for body, linen for drape, silk for lustre - to offer what we think might be the ultimate IYKYK télégraphe. 

We couldn't stop without a re-examination of the RN Work Shirt itself. For the already born-again, expect the shoulders a little more relaxed than before. Otherwise, we've retained all that generosity through the body which causes NU-00001 to be such a chameleon tucked in against the skin, or out + over weekend threads; your speedoes as you slip out of the men's pond?

You'll find the same 2 wonderfully ample + very useful pockets attached to your chemise, both intended to carry as much or as little as you'd like. And the real beauty is - you don't have to think about it. Care for it, or not. Wash it, or not. As long as you wear it, and mend it, and share it.

Hello the new CPO!  

- 77%co 19%li 4%se
- 235gsm
- L.E.J mother of pearl buttons
- fine single-stitching
- long point collar w/ floating interlining
- 2 x large pleated flap pockets
- twin-needle yokes + pockets
- box pleat at CB
- hem gusset
- made in Italy