Vintage French Linen Chore Jacket Type 1 Geelong or canvas sneakers

or canvas sneakers

Navy ground with an ecru spot and border

slightly imperfect motif from early hand-carved wood block printing

Cut to a width of 1 inch — a size that works across the formality scale

For this special make-up

Vintage French Linen Chore Jacket Type 1 Geelong or canvas sneakersOur chore jacket cut from a pure linen deadstock cloth woven by Fleur Bleue, a French mill that closed decades ago. This fabric has been in storage since the 1950s, nearly eighty years old and entirely unrepeatable. Type 1 is a pure linen in a warm cream tone with a naturally even weave and a gentle lustre. It has the subtle irregularity you'd expect from an unprocessed linen of this age without being heavily textured refined for a pure linen, and one