These past few months, we've been designing a jacket, working with Julio Valdes in Sydney to develop a pattern, and get a prototype made up, ready for on-demand making. Here's photos of prototype 001.

We'd like to pay our respects to Nigel Cabourn's work, who we discovered earlier this year when searching for current makers of old school outdoors wear.

Back when we lived in Dunedin, New Zealand, we discovered Cactus Climbing Equipment. They're making high quality gear for the outdoors, and especially famous are their heavy duty pants, the Dreadnoughts.