The
Sunspel (http://www.sunspel.com) brand
philosophy has always revolved around an exacting attention to detail, and how
this translates into highly wearable, exceptional quality clothing. It was certainly the case
when Thomas Hill set up the company in his own name in the Newdigate area of
Nottingham in 1860, and it continued throughout the firm's years of assisting
the military in major international conflicts, right through its late 20th
century cult years and into its present ownership and early 21st century
resurgence.
One
only needs to search the Sunspel website, or even peruse the racks in any of
the many prestigious physical stores and boutiques in which the brand maintains
a presence, to get a sense of this attention to detail. All manner of aspects
of form and fit are continually scrutinised by a skilled, experienced and
passionate team back in the original Long Eaton factory. Sunspel's designers
and craftsmen rarely pass up an opportunity to refine and perfect even the most
treasured icon products in the light of 21st century expectations, lifestyles
and technologies.
The
changes that are made as part of this continual review process are never about
the prevailing trend du jour, except where they make sense in the wider context
of how the Sunspel brand's many national and international admirers actually
live. The soundness of the judgement of Sunspel's clothing engineers can be
appreciated across the generations. For example, when John Hill brought the
boxer short to the UK from the US for the first time in 1947, he made it less
baggy as well as more comfortable to wear, with double-turned and feldlocked
seams being introduced to eliminate rough and sharp edges. Today's Sunspel
boxer shorts also sport a back panel in place of the uncomfortable central seam
that characterised the mens underwear
Hill had first spotted in the States.
John
Hill's early innovations may have left successive Sunspel designers with an
easy job, given that only minor tweaks have since been made to the pattern that
he established, but major and minor changes alike have all helped to give the
company's present heritage clothing its
considerable contemporary reputation. Also benefitting from this longstanding
philosophy are the brand's classic polo
shirts, which are known for their simple, iconic design bereft of the fussy
additional details of rivals' reinterpretations. Buyers of Sunspel polo shirts
know that they are getting a well-sorted, supremely wearable and
well-engineered garment, consisting of short sleeves, a soft collar and three
buttons - and that is precisely how they like it.
People
know that when they shop at Sunspel (http://www.sunspel.com),
whether for T-shirts, polo shirts, boxer shorts, trousers, sleepwear or any of
a wide range of other quality mens clothing,
they receive the most genuinely luxurious everyday basics. They recognise that
only a clothing purveyor with so many years behind it as Sunspel can appreciate
the importance of refining, refining, refining... and refining again.
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