Improving by mending - With Eva Kittelsen, mending acivist (#121)
This week's guest is Eva Kittelsen, author and visible mending activist, sewing bee contestant, fashion and textile designer and entrepreneur. We talk about her starting out in the fashion industry, h...
11 Mai 20231h 34min
Going archival - With Dr Kat Jungnickel, Politics of Patents (#120)
This week's guest is Dr Kat Jungnickel, sociologist (from Goldsmiths, University of London), cyclist, tweed enthusiast and keen investigator of historical clothing patents. We talk about how the popul...
4 Mai 20231h 14min
A likeable cut of the jib - With Guy Hill, Dashing Tweeds (#119)
This week's guest is Guy Hills, bon vivant and founder of Dashing Tweeds, makers of innovative tweed and dashing outfits thereof. We get into the joy of tailoring, menswear history, why tweed is a top...
27 Apr 20231h 47min
Get ahead with a hat - With Allon Zloof, Tom Smarte (#118)
This week's guest is Allon Zloof, a fourth-generation hatmaker with the family-owned Tom Smarte. We talk about different styles, a bit of history, where hats are at today, changes in the hatmaking ind...
13 Apr 20231h 24min
Off the main street - With Kelly Dawson and Scott Ogden, Dawson Denim (#117)
Today we are off to the British seaside to meet Kelly Dawson and Scott Ogden of Dawson Denim, a small maker of quality jeans. We talk about how Kelly became increasingly disenchanted with her career i...
6 Apr 20231h 28min
Design for repairability - With Rosanna Watson, Snowdonia Gear Repair (#116)
In this episode, Rosanna Watson of Snowdonia Gear Repair drops in to talk about the boom in outdoor gear, designing for repairability, greenwashing in the outdoor industry, the problem with "sustainab...
30 Mar 20231h 33min
Wonderfully warm legs - With Diane and James Welstead of Olaf McTarn (#115)
My guests today are Diane and James Welstead, veterans of the garment industry and entrepreneurs of well-based leg comfort, the Olaf McTarn. We talk about how the garment business has changed over the...
24 Mar 20231h 53min
Made by hand for feet - With Ruth Emily Davey of RED (#114)
We're off to Wales this week to talk to Ruth Emily Davey about her life making shoes. We talk about how she quite unintentionally started as a shoemaker's apprentice, grew to love the craft, her mento...
17 Mar 20231h 28min
