Free returns through our retail partner on every size you order
Home › Journal
01Journal
Three pieces: why one collar still stands in its fourth season, what the number on a sun-rated shirt actually measures, and what heat does to a knit in a wash. The sources behind the sun and label claims are listed on how we update the catalogue.
A knit collar is a controlled crease, and every wear bends the same line of yarn in the same place. What actually fails, why heat rather than washing is the thing that finishes it, why the placket goes wavy before the collar does, and what you can check before you order and do at home afterwards.
The number on the label describes the cloth, not your afternoon. What it measures, what the two bands mean in the words of the body that sets them, the two everyday things that cut it, and where its usefulness stops.
A performance knit asks less of you than cotton and punishes one mistake harder. What heat does to the elastane, why a dryer is beside the point, what actually helps with smell, and the two stains a golf shirt really gets.
Every Michel Rouen cut, every size
Every size and colourway in the Michel Rouen collection sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.