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The Linen Herringbone Safari Overshirt
Most designs start with a sketch. This one started with a fabric. The herringbone weave – Roman geometry, a Swedish name. The Linen Safari Overshirt, built for warmer days and worn beyond them.
| FABRIC BEFORE DESIGN |
Our head designer found this fabric before the design existed. A herringbone linen made for suits – at 230g, slightly heavier than one might expect for summer. That weight and structure made it perfect for an overshirt with real character. The Safari Overshirt followed.
| THE SWEDISH HERRING |
The Romans built herringbone into their roads. The V-shaped stone arrangement distributed load so evenly that remnants of those roads still exist across Europe two thousand years later. Textile makers borrowed the geometry for the same reason – the interlocking structure holds form under pressure.
"The Europeans who encountered this weave named it after the same fish."
The English called it herringbone. The Swedes called it sillbensmönster – herring bone pattern. The resemblance to a fish spine is too obvious to miss, and herring has been on the Swedish table for a thousand years – pickled, smoked, served at every midsommar, Christmas, and ordinary Tuesday in between. We are a Swedish brand. Making an overshirt from this weave was never going to feel accidental. Like the fish itself, this overshirt works just as well at midsommar as it does on a regular weekday.
| LINEN IN SUMMER |
In Hong Kong and New York, summer runs two climates at once. Outside: heat and humidity from May through October. Inside: air conditioning at maximum in every restaurant, office, and shopping mall. A piece that only works in one of those environments spends half its time folded on a chair. At 230g, this linen herringbone handles both.
In Stockholm, it works regardless.
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| THE DESIGN |
Three hexagon pockets, five natural brown horn buttons, a dropped shoulder that lets the piece rest without effort. Clean and intentional. When the fabric is this considered, the design gets out of the way.
| HOW IT WEARS |
Linen wrinkles. This one does too. What the herringbone holds is a visible structure through the cloth even as it creases, so it never fully loses its line. Wear it for a few weeks and it settles into something personal.
AVAILABLE IN
Copper Red, White, Copper Camel, and Rusty Brown Melange, 230g Herringbone weave
The Weave: Herringbone linen at 230g. The Romans built roads with this geometry. It holds its line just as well in summer.
