Julia Crew wears hand muff from The Nepal Collection. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

The fashion world may have had all eyes on Spring/Summer ’12 collections over recent months, but the realities of winter are finally approaching and the chunky knits that adorned last season’s catwalk suddenly make a whole lot of sense. From oversized sweaters to pompoms and snoods, the East End offers its very own array of woollen wonders. High-end to market traders, this is the Hackney guide to yarn.

Knitwear went tribal in the Autumn / Winter  ’11 shows, thanks to Jenny Postle’s graduate collection, which saw a mélange of tasseled, patchwork, Aztec knitwear grace the runway. The Central St Martins graduate, based in Hackney, created outfits that combined mesh with patches of chunky yarn, both baring skin and concealing it.

The garments, and their four-digit price tags, might not have been the most practical approach to knitwear but it made for some great inspiration. The designer embraced autumn with ocher hues and layers of fabric- facets that could translate off the catwalk. Head to Our Patterned Hand sewing shop on Broadway Market for pompom trim and Japanese denim swatches.

East End designer and don of knitwear Mark Fast notoriously keeps his knits urban with revealing cutout patterns and shredded fabrics. AW ‘11 was no exception: ruched and pleated oversize cardigans made waves amongst the front row.

The Von Sono knitwear label is one of the most exciting and elusive to emerge from East London. This season Von Sono, aka Stephanie Oberg, created zip-up knitted bomber jackets, available at Goodhood store in Hoxton. The German designer, with some humour, reinvented last year’s beloved snood into a snoot- a bandana-shaped knitted scarf. Von Sono’s timeless garments, referencing the draping of Junya Watanabe and ranging from the mid to high-end price bracket, are a worthy investment.

Thanks to the steadfast seventies trend, capes and ponchos can be spotted all over the East End and make for a simple and effective statement. The recently-opened shop Beyond Retro in Dalston has an eclectic range; choose bold colours or chunky patterns to avoid blob-ishness. For more throwback pieces, the vintage stalls on Broadway, Netil and Chatsworth road markets are worth rifling.

Here Today Here Tomorrow near Dalston Junction is a trove of sustainable knitwear and beautiful pompom hats. The shop-come-studio makes, showcases and sells ethically produced pieces with a focus on craftsmanship, the use of natural dyes and organic materials. These designers and makers are producing beautiful and well-made pieces, disproving the presumption that ‘sustainable’ equates to saggy hemp-wear.

The Nepal Collection – a collaboration between the HTHT designers, Nepalese craftsmen and the Association for Craft Producers –  has resulted in a range of brilliantly snug hand-muffs and hats in striking reds and blues.

The craftsmanship of knitwear can be found in many imaginative forms across the borough, leaving behind its association with twee and the childhood memories of itchy woollen atrocities. From the beautiful and complex designs of the East End’s newest stars to the vintage finds in Hackney’s many markets, all the woollen wonders you might want or need are right here.

Illustration: Caroline Christie and Bethany Lamont

As our espadrilles disintegrate in the near-constant drizzle and the nights close in, it can only mean one thing, autumn is upon us. Plunging necklines, cropped shorts and canvas shoes are packed away in favour of wrap around scarves, woollen socks and fishermen’s jumpers. So what do Hackney’s boutique shops have to offer us for autumn/winter ’11?

Just over a year ago, fashion/pop-culture boutique East of Eden popped up just off Dalston Junction. A treasure trove of prom dresses, hip-hop records and cursed paintings, the shop is the creative outlet of Ian and Emma, a couple who between them put on club nights, model, act and study for a PhD. They’re not your average cabinet of curiosity caretakers.

London Fashion Week had just forecast the highlights of next year so it seemed fitting to ask for their insight into key pieces and this season’s trends. After all, the bold prints in their eclectic array parallels the wealth of pattern- and print-based works strutting the catwalks days previously.

Asked for any trend tips, Emma hesitates, explaining that her pleasure for clothes lies not in the fast-food culture of fashion, but rather in a love for the theatrics of costume and dressing up. She notes that the pieces selected for East of Eden eschew the clothes-hanger-figure idealism of high fashion. With a collection that spans decades, they prefer to throw the continuity rule book out the window.

There is an aesthetic of horror that runs through the work of East of Eden. Links to B movies, video nasties, pulp fiction, pin ups and archaic folk tales fill their Tumblr. Many of their key pieces are reminiscent of the covers of gaudy, straight to VHS grindhouse works. Ian is even curating a series of Halloween films for the American site, Network Awesome, which will be based on classic horror anthologies such as Tales of the Unexpected and Tales from the Crypt.

The team recommend Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington as a suitably melancholy setting for 31 October. Also look out for Halloween processions and wandering zombies.

Related: Fashion East goes west

East End designers and fashion devotees sauntered west on the Sunday of London Fashion Week for the Fashion East showcase, supported by Topshop. The event, held in Mayfair’s Haunch of Venison gallery, presented some of London’s best emerging designers, who in turn brought with them a young, bold and urban aesthetic.

Fashion East, a not-for-profit initiative based at the Old Truman Brewery and set up in 2000 by Lulu Kennedy, offers a spotlight for new talent from across the city and is used as a platform to showcase designers who are not based in the conventional west end, high-end marketplace. Many of today’s biggest British names – from Gareth Pugh to Holly Fulton – had their careers ignited by Fashion East.

East London’s burgeoning art and music scenes, together with its heavy dose of cultural diversity and a sizeable student population, have brought the area to the forefront of trend setting. And it is not by coincidence that Lulu Kennedy and her team have positioned themselves at the heart of it.

Not only was the event a coming-together of east and west, but of art and fashion, situated in this splendid gallery (formerly the Museum of Mankind). The highly anticipated Frank Stella exhibition created an effective backdrop with its bold colors and geometric structures.

Four designers, most of whom are based in east London, showcased their Spring/Summer ‘12 womenswear collections. The event got underway with a presentation of work by Cypriot-born designer Elliot Atkinson who began making clothes from his bedroom in Homerton. Atkinson studied Womenswear at Edinburgh College of Art and was picked up by Fashion East last year.

“I moved to London in 2005 from Scotland. I was living in Homerton. It was a difficult time and the streets and nightlife helped shape my vacant, lonely and dark approach to art and design.”

This season’s collection is a juxtaposition of leather lace-up trousers and soft floral print. Atkinson describes his signature look as “romantic, feminine, dark and hedonistic with this juxtaposing tough quality”.

The three runway shows that followed shared this perspective.  Portuguese duo Marques’ Almeida, James Long and Maarten van der Horst had varying sources of inspiration but each collection made strong references to the urban landscape and youth culture.

Marques’ Almeida, whose studio is situated on Kingsland Road in Dalston, devoted the collection to their fascination with youth culture and the mid-nineties by creating a range of oversized frayed denim tunics and matching torn leg warmers. The baggy double denim – harking back to both nineties hip-hop culture and grunge – alongside a soundtrack by Dalston frequenter DJ Jonjo Jury, reminded the A-List audience that London fashion has edge.

Maarten van der Horst drew from a host of cultural references to create his collection of re-imagined holiday staples such as Hawaiian print two-piece suits and glittery camouflage. James Long, based on Redchurch Street, showed a jewel-encrusted collection of mesh dresses and slinky snakeskin, bringing an element of bling to the proceedings.

Fashion East shone the spotlight on next season’s new names with the same playfulness and professionalism that has earned them and their young designers a significant place within the fashion world.

Related: Dalston boutique East of Eden bucks trends

Claire-Louise Hardie, founder of The Thrifty Stitcher. Photograph: Laura McCluskey

Need to fix up your sewing skills? … The Thrifty Stitcher is here to help.

With a 500 per cent rise in sewing machine sales in 2008 and the trend continuing, sewing is no longer only for our aunts or grandmothers. It is a hobby we would probably all like to indulge in occasionally, but the fact is that not all of us can actually sew.

Clothes that fit well and look good have become increasingly accessible with the ever growing high street and cheap well-stocked vintage stores. Many of my generation of twenty-somethings just never felt the need to learn the arts of collar-turning and button-holing.

But times change, and unlike the cheap and fast fashion-filled noughties there’s been a move toward re-engaging with our clothing, be it in knowing the name of the labourer who made our t-shirts or playing a part in the process.

Yes, I do change the buttons on my knits (occasionally glueing them on) and yes I chop bits off my clothes (resulting in ridiculous amounts of money spent on alterations to fix them again). But I have very few basic sewing skills.

And as we all know where there is a demand it is met. The number of people taking up sewing has been growing consistently and sewing schools have popped up everywhere.

In my pursuit to find the perfect one to assist me on my journey, I found the Thrifty Stitcher.

When I heard of the Thrifty Stitcher, the name caught my attention. This local sewing school was the brainchild of wardrobe mistress Claire-Louise Hardie, and my first thoughts impressions were of something a little bit different, unpretentious and warm.

Claire, who both teaches classes and runs the business on top of her day job, has worked on everything from Hairspray to Million Dollar Quartet. Sewing from the age of six, she knows more about this art than anyone I’ve met. A Hackney resident of many years, Claire carries a suitcase full of fabrics when I meet her and tells me about her Welsh history, giving me tips and advice before I’ve even attended the class.

Wearing a slightly-altered dress from Monsoon, Claire tells me “it’s not about making everything from scratch but being able to make the changes to suit you”.

Photograph: Laura McCluskey

Claire reassures me I’m not alone in my fear of sewing; that’s exactly why the Thrifty Stitcher came about. The range of classes on offer suit mothers and daughters, groups of friends, and young professionals.  Classes are arranged according to what is asked for. They range from full-day and part-day beginners’ to fascinator classes, tie-making and drop-in sessions.

I am invited to full-day beginners’ class at a studio near Clissold Park. When I arrive, I’m immediately drawn to the rows upon rows of ribbon hanging by the side of the room. Settling down with a cup of peppermint tea, I whizz through the pamphlet provided. There are four of us today and the numbers only ever rise to an intimate eight.

With two teachers at the ready in every class, no question goes unanswered and the event is from the start very informative. The day ends with a red velvet cupcake, and we all leave with a self-made brooch and a cushion cover (dressed with ribbon of course).

The classes are little luxuries with prices starting at £45 but they make for a wonderful day and left me feeling full of confidence in taking my sewing to the next stage. Being able to alter, embellish or even create a piece of clothing may not be such a distant dream.

Find out more about the Thrifty Stitcher.

What’s in store at LN-CC. Photo: Jon Dean

Lurking in the backstreets of Dalston and unbeknown to the uninitiated, the Late Night Chameleon Café is a concept store whose unique take on fashion has won fans all over the world and has placed it amongst London’s elite stockists.

Encompassing clothes, literature, music and photography, everything about the LN-CC has an air of unpretentious and thoughtful quality.

Seen by appointment only, visitors walk through an indoor forest and a beautifully constructed wood and Perspex tunnel into a series of themed rooms by pop-up set designer Gary Card.

Three of these house an impressive array of clothes, featuring designers unavailable anywhere else in Europe.

Aficionados will recognise names such as Balenciaga, Jil Sander and Rick Owen, among others, but LN-CC are also exclusive international stockists for London-based designer Tze Goh, and exclusive stockists in the UK for Japanese brands SASQUATCHfabrix, Name, Wacko Maria and G.V.G.V.

On the music side, there is a book and record store, packed with first editions and signed rarities and a club, with bespoke speakers and vintage equipment rarely seen outside of reggae dances.

The basement venue also features a full photography studio and the headquarters for LN-CC’s accompanying online retail site.

The idea for the 5,000 square foot installation sprang from the minds of creative director John Skelton, 29, and brand director Dan Mitchell, 25. Both have a solid background as fashion buyers and John numbers Selfridges, Harrods and oki-ni among his former employers.

They recruited their friends, PR director Charlotte Hall, 25, and store manager Mike Skelton, 26, and started work on the site in June 2010. The website launched in September the same year, closely followed by the store, which opened its doors on 18 November.

Although the gentrification of Hackney is well documented, Shacklewell Lane still seems an unusual location for an establishment that is making an impression on brands such as Prada and is “the talk of Italy”.

“We picked Hackney for the space we needed and the money we had, it was the best place to be, said Charlotte. “Because space is quite cheap and because of the history of the textile factories here, the designers moved in and the place has evolved from there.

“It has worked out perfectly,” added Mike. “The people who want these sort of brands are used to having to look for them and don’t mind travelling. It’s not like your average high street shop.”

Although it is easy to see the clothes as the main event, the group are keen that people view all the rooms as different facets of the LN-CC concept.

“The books are all sorted out by Conor Donlon, who has a shop on Broadway Market. It’s a real mixture of photography, fanzines and history stuff. He gets crazy stuff like signed first editions and we had some rare Andy Warhol in recently,” says Mike.

Sales online are brisk and despite being tucked away and relying mainly on word of mouth, there have seen a steady flow of customers through the LN-CC doors. “Sometimes they ask ‘why is it appointment only?’ But when they leave and they have had this experience, they tend to go ‘Okay, I kind of get it now’, said Mike. “We are just happy to be breaking down the barriers of fashion, get past the snootiness of it, because fashion is for everyone. Fashion is just whatever you are into.”

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Rose wears vintage white dress with gold leaf thread-work, Stoke Newington Church Street

February sees the arrival of spring attire; outfits that we hope will lift our spirits as we enter the new season. Yes, I know it’s still freezing cold but the sun is starting to shine.

With the mood shifting away from the ferocity of studs and shoulders of past seasons we were left with a winter of camels and capes. But as we pack away our ‘classic’ pieces, anticipate a look that is slightly younger, less polished and embraces an edge. This theme is not so much overtly lady-like as subtley feminine – a much more carefree look than last season’s and one that translates well to the streets of Hackney.

The big screen presence of ‘Black Swan’, with its ethereal and awe-inspiring Rodarte ballet costumes, re-iterates the vision of spring fashion put forward by Hackney boys Erdem Moralioglu and Peter Piloto. Both had a ghost-like sensuality to their collections but also a sense of strength and velocity. These costumes were not being exhibited to look sweet. Rather, they embodied strength.  Stepping away from the skinny jeans and combat boots we’ve been masked in for years, these looks imply fluidity and freedom. Amidst the dresses is the noticeable presence of proper trousers.

Trousers, proper trousers, have been finding their feet. It is a change, but this softer look has been long awaited and one that Erdem has been championing since his emergence: femininity with a twist.

Fitted bodices, flared skirts and boxy jackets all made an appearance at the London fashion shows. But departing from their original reference, the jackets came in neon-brights and the dresses were filled with misplaced, multi-coloured poppy prints.  Another Hackney-based designer at the forefront of this revival was Christopher Kane with his collection, “Princess Margaret on acid”.

Evolving from the very structured and sweet look of the ‘Mad Men’ ladies, our highest of heels can still find their place in our wardrobes. We may have been told that platforms and extreme heels have had their time and that we should swap them for kitten heels, but I’m not so convinced.  The new-age platform can look just as feminine. Footwear – heels, platforms and flats alike – appeared with lace and chiffon ties, the unexpected use of fabric adding fragility and daintiness to the stiff and solid look of wedges and platforms. This element of surprise appears to be as a key theme this season.

Vintage boutiques will most definitely be keeping their rails of 50s-inspired dresses, jackets and cigarette pants, as well as fluid pieces from the 70s, including printed maxi dresses. Make the pieces current by contrasting fluid dresses with brogues and prissy blouses with a chiffon wedge. Keep the look clean and add something unexpected.

Make-up at the shows was an embodiment of this. Faces were kept mostly clean with a hint of colour on the cheeks or lips. Try out a blotted-on apricot-tinged or neon-orange lipstick.

Spring is certainly the season to have fun.

Designers to look out for: Erdem, Christopher Kane, Peter Piloto, Charles Anastase and Jonathon Saunders.

Rosie Martin, founder of DIY Couture. Photo: Tim Sullivan

The two words don’t seem to quite fit into the reality of our times.  ‘Couture’, a rarefied concept of intricately detailed and personalised clothing and ‘DIY’, the words conjured to the forefront of our minds when Changing Rooms inspired us to paint our homes, not so much our clothing.  But this is exactly what Rosie Martin, a young international development graduate is revolutionising, and maybe it’s exactly what we need.

In a world where we can purchase shoes for the price of a sandwich and shop whilst lying in our beds, DIY Couture is thoroughly refreshing.  It aims to aid a generation of individuals to be able to make their own clothing and appreciate their “engagement in action.”  Rosie tells me this when I meet her in her Hackney home. The nonchalantly trendy young woman tells me she wants to give people confidence in their ideas, democratising fashion’s ideals and its constraints.

The lightbulb moment when she had the idea to create ‘how to make’ manuals for different garments came about because of the difficulties Rosie experienced when first attempting to make her own clothing. The books – which have been released in many titles, including ‘how to make a cloak’ – are unique and simple to understand. Rosie tells me: “There is nothing else on the market quite like DIY Couture” pointing out that it’s “a celebration of using your hands.” Looking through the books with the easy-to-read instructions, diagrams and room for creativity, it is clear she is right.

Speaking about how we can see the project growing, Rosie claims that she doesn’t “want to sell a piece of clothing”. Her aim is to provide an educational service through the books. Making and altering your clothing was the norm a few generations back. People cared for their clothes.

With a new generation of individuals who have a heightened awareness of the harms that are being caused by the culture of fast fashion, maybe the alternatives just need to be made available, and maybe DIY couture provides a viable option. Take inspiration from Bob the Builder and Barack Obama if you’re pondering whether DIY Couture really is an option for us all? Rosie tells me to “give it a go – anyone can make their own clothes”, just think: “yes you can!”

Related story: Now you can shoe it yourself

Vintage classics at Red, Stoke Newington

There are numerous vintage shops in Hackney, but they are not always easy to find – many do not have websites and are hidden away. Stoke Newington Church Street is a good place to start; it has a number of shops selling vintage clothes within a few yards of each other.

We tried Dirty Blonde at Red, 129 Stoke Newington Church Street, an absolute treasure trove bursting with clothes, shoes and accessories which were reasonably priced and well cared for. It is worth a visit merely to have a peek in the shop itself, with its tin-foiled ceiling and kitschy décor and to chat with the unfailingly lovely staff.

The other shops on the road are Ribbons & Taylor Vintage Clothing at number 157 which is smaller but has a larger selection for men and Strut at number 182 which deals in vintage designer (with prices to match, but still much cheaper than buying new). The good thing about spending your money in shops like these is that along with the undoubtedly unique garment you get, you are also supporting Hackney’s independent local retailers.

Vintage shops are good because the clothes have already been picked out by someone, but if you have the stamina, it is in charity shops that the best bargains are to be had. Hackney has no shortage of such shops, full of very cheap unwanted clothes just waiting to be found.

If it is important you keep up with the latest fashions, then surely you must want more than simply to dress like everybody else. When you wear something vintage you are wearing something you rummaged for, something you found and loved and that no one else will be wearing. Yes, it is more effort to shop vintage, but wouldn’t you rather be stylish than fashionable?

Amanda Luisa runs shoe-making classes of four students per session

Ever wished you could make your own pair of shoes from scratch? I CAN Make Shoes is a three-day workshop that teaches you how to do just that. Set up and run by Sydney-born London-based shoemaker Amanda Luisa, 24, the workshops take place twice a month in a studio in Dalston.

“I have always loved shoes and was so excited when I learned how to make them, I really wanted to share that feeling,“ Amanda says. She describes the workshop as being “designed for beginner students who want to learn how to take their design from concept to finished product.”

This means that no previous knowledge is needed – the students are taught shoemaking in four stages: from the idea development/design stage to upper stitching, lasting and finally the finishing touches. Upon completing training in cordwaining (shoemaking) in Australia, Amanda went on to work as a freelance shoemaker: “I developed my own method of shoe making which incorporates the same quality and strength of traditionally made shoes only without the use of heavy machinery. This approach to shoe making gave me the freedom to start making shoes from home.”

The same method has been applied to the workshops, where students are taught how to make quality shoes themselves using their hands and a few tools.

After years of making shoes for other people, and a move to London in 2007, Amanda decided to set up I CAN make shoes. “When I was making bespoke shoes, it was always one-on-one and since I was practically telling the client step by step what I was doing, I thought ‘I could really develop this into a workshop.’”

When starting out, Amanda hired a digital design agency to help her with the development and online presence of I CAN make shoes, which she thinks was very helpful. “I had been trading as a freelance shoemaker for years and it was as if overnight I had this completely established business… It was really important I got this right as a solid foundation and everything has been growing rapidly since,” she recalls.

The workshops are located in Dalston – in a studio which Amanda admits is her biggest expense. However, she seems content with the location, saying: “I think it’s really worth paying for a great space though, it adds to the whole experience.” When asked whether she received help from the council, she said laughing: “No, but I’m working on it.”

Amanda is currently working on establishing further one-day sandal making workshops for summer, hoping to expand her company. “The workshops just seemed like a great idea at the time and then it really took off… I think natural progression in your career is really important.”

An I CAN make shoes three-day workshop costs £500, including tuition, material fees and the finished product.

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Doing the Hackney Farmer

Traditional manufacturer Barbour, best known for its practical rural and outdoor clothing, is now officially cool.

Forget that it recently opened a flagship store in trendy Soho, that celebrity handbag designer Anya Hindmarch is set to design a range of its jackets or that it is stocked in the achingly hip Dover Street Market; Barbour’s new-found status as a fashionable brand is because it is now being worn by those that ‘matter’.

It would appear that the latest trend among celebrities and the fashion conscious is to contrast Barbour’s functional wax jackets with their skinny jeans and asymmetrical bodycon dresses.

While the celebrities have been wearing the more recent collections, the preference on the streets is for something battered and bruised. The trend has even acquired its own nickname: the Hackney Farmer.

So crucial is the Hackney Farmer look to Barbour’s recent success that Gary Burnand, its director of Global Marketing & Strategy, admitted, “We are aware that there has been a resurgence in the popularity of our brand and that some parts of the press have reported that the interest has come from […] Hackney”.

It’s not the first time that Hackney’s hipsters have had a major trend named after them.

The local artistes were credited with starting the Hoxton Fin hairstyle that dominated men’s barbering at the beginning of the noughties, but while the Mohawk-style hairdo may just have been a natural look for those whose jobs did not demand a smart and professional short-back-and-sides cut, the origins  of the Hackney Farmer are less obvious.

With the full effect of gentrification felt only in small pockets of the borough, you wouldn’t expect clothing that is most readily associated with posh country folk going hunting and fishing to be a fashion staple – especially when the look is perpetrated by the fashion-conscious youth who rarely leave their inner city locales.

Writing in the Guardian, Andy Beckett suggests that the Hackney Farmer uniform might be indicative of an increasing acceptance of all things posh, a general trend towards so-called “Tory chic”.

However, local fashion and lifestyle blogger Steve Hamilton of rantinnravin.wordpress.com believes that the motive behind the trend is somewhat less contrived.

“People don’t think about class so much theses days, certainly not in fashion terms anyway. Nobody’s sitting there thinking ‘I’m wearing a Barbour jacket’. If I wore one, I certainly wouldn’t be making a political statement”.

Hamilton lives in London Fields, where, he states, “most of the local residents are from middle class backgrounds anyway, working as graphic designers”.

He feels that they are merely indulging in a style that they have grown up with, in a raiding-dad’s-wardrobe-for-new-things-to-wear kind of way.

He admits that in the past the middle classes in similar circumstances might have made social statements with their fashion choices to avoid the taboo that went with their privileged background, but now “people don’t feel the need to distance themselves from it”.

He acknowledges that he appreciates the cut of Hackney’s sartorial jib, yet questions whether the trend is driven more by celebrity endorsement than socio-political motivations or grass roots street style.

“Hackney is always where they think fashions start from, but the first people who started to wear Barbour jackets again would have been someone in the public eye, like Kate Moss or Sienna Miller. Very few fashions are really born from the streets”.

Barbour are certainly aware of the power of celebrity in maximising the exposure of the brand. Burnand confirmed that “sometimes we may choose to work with well known people if they are good brand ambassadors”.

Regardless of what is driving the Hackney Farmer, Barbour is not shying away from the association – “we are delighted that a new audience is discovering Barbour as a brand of choice”. He does not seem to envisage the kind of problems Burberry had a few years ago when a new audience embraced its own signature pieces.

In any event, whether calculated marketing ploy or genuine street style, no doubt the number of urban farmers in east London will continue to rise – until Hackney spawns another new trend of course.

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Hackney Farmer – how to get the look

Do wear your Barbour jacket battered and bruised.
The idea is that it looks like you’ve been wearing it to hunt game for several years, even if the reality is that you’ve never left the city. Think charity shop chic.

Don’t accessorise with wellington boots, flat caps, quilted gilets or anything else remotely rural or agricultural. The look is worn slightly ironically, and the idea is not to end up looking like an actual farmer.

Do be prepared to put up with the smell.
Waterproof wax jackets compromise on breathable fibres, meaning that even the least taxing of activities will leave you in a pool of sweat.

Don’t hang about.
Hurry up and embrace the look now. Fashion is fickle, and the next trend is just around the corner.