The Stole Pocket Butterfly shirt has long panel pockets sewn to the fronts and caught into the shoulder seam, recalling the embroidered liturgical vestments worn by Christian priests and bishops. The pockets are accessed from openings at the side, wearing as hand warmers.

The shirt is cut on the Tender Butterfly block, with no side seams and reversed sleeves, joined along the top sleeve and into the shoulder. Unlike previous butterfly shirts, cuffs open with full tailored plackets behind the wrist.

Thunderbolt Cambric has a plain ground with a raised spaced twill in the shape of a stepped thunderbolt pattern. The warp is ecru cotton and the weft is dyed olive green,subtly altering the tone of the dyes used on shirts cut from this cloth.

This deep grey is dyed with tannin derived from chestnut wood.

Wood tannins have been used throughout history to preserve animal hides as leather (the earliest known example of tanned leather is in Pakistan and dates to between 7000 and 3300 BCE), and were also historically used in combination with salts and with other vegetable extracts to colour cloth, and to stabilise other dyes.

Buttons are real shell interpretations of a standard cats eye button, and the whole garment is sewn with cotton thread.

• Made in USA
• Fabrics woven in England
• Rinsed to shrink
• Full pleated cuffs

• Real shell cats eye buttons