
Kept for Good
Autumn Winter 26
A little ceremony in the everyday.
Kept for Good · Autumn Winter 26 The things we kept for best
Every family has a good room, and a good coat to go with it. There were the good clothes, brought out with extra care. Someone straightened your collar at the door. Getting dressed was part of the occasion, and part of showing up for one another.
Kept for Good begins with those memories of Sunday dressing and the life around it. Some things are too good to save for best, so we made them to be worn on an ordinary Tuesday too.
The Good Room
Sunday best, and the life around it. Sound on.
Trying to be good
Of course, we remember the interruptions too. Arriving late and hoping no one would notice. A sweet unwrapped just as the room fell quiet, or catching someone’s eye when you really shouldn’t.
The Sweetie Trousers carry some of that mischief. Pink beetled-linen pockets are turned out against dark striped linen, with wide legs and an easy elasticated waist. Finding the sweets should be rather easier now.
Twinkle Tweed.
A little more gold.
Textured gold Donegal tweed catches the light in the folds of the cape. Its shape borrows from choir robes, with ivory linen inside. There is ceremony in putting it on.
The same cloth makes the bow-tied Bralette and rounded Puff Shorts. Over the soft ivory Choir Practice Shirt, the gold feels easy to wear. Bring one piece into an everyday outfit, or enjoy the whole ensemble.
Loinnir Pink.
The good coat.
Loinnir is Irish for sparkle. This is our signature pink, beetled until it sparkles, and the latest chapter in our ongoing development work with William Clark & Sons. At their beetling mill in Upperlands, wooden hammers pound the linen until it turns crisp and catches the light.
The Anointed Coat gives it gathered sleeves and a subtle puffball hem, with red linen flashing inside. There are pockets, and room for a jumper. Wear the good coat on an ordinary day.
Inheritance.
A new shape for Kindred.
After the generous, oversized fit of our much-loved tweed jackets, Inheritance introduces a more fitted shape. A tailored waist and stand collar bring a new proportion to familiar Donegal tweed.
In the brown blazer, black beetled linen gathers into a small bustle at the back. Over everyday trousers, or with the Twinkle Tweed Puff Shorts showing beneath.
Shamrock & the beetled bow skirts
Shamrock brings green and glints of gold to the Inheritance Blazer. A tailored waist and stand collar give the tweed a neat line above the fullness of the Slate Bow Skirt.
The skirts owe that shape and sheen to beetled Irish linen. A bow gathers the front; an elasticated back and pockets make them easy to wear. Choose slate, black or Loinnir Pink, and bring out the good skirt with a shirt or a familiar knit.
Shamrock & the beetled bow skirts
Shamrock brings green and glints of gold to the Inheritance Blazer. A tailored waist and stand collar give the tweed a neat line above the fullness of the Slate Bow Skirt.
The skirts owe that shape and sheen to beetled Irish linen. A bow gathers the front; an elasticated back and pockets make them easy to wear. Choose slate, black or Loinnir Pink, and bring out the good skirt with a shirt or a familiar knit.
Beetled Bow Skirt | Slate
Beetled Bow Skirt | Black
Bow Skirt | Loinnir Pink
Candlelight.
The long coat.
Small shimmers run through the pale Donegal tweed of the Inheritance Coat, catching the light as you move.
A stand collar and fitted waist give it a long, tailored line. Lined in Irish linen, it buttons at the top and falls open below. Over a Sunday dress, or your familiar layers when the weather turns.
From Mourne,
for the everyday
The Locking Up Jacket begins with textured tweed woven by Mourne Textiles in County Down. Black beetled Irish linen brings a smooth, light-catching contrast.
An asymmetric zip and generous pockets give this special cloth an everyday purpose.
Workshop photograph: Mourne Textiles.
Mourne tweed,
up close
Bolts of turquoise run through the dark ground of this Mourne tweed, woven in a family workshop in County Down.
The Shawl gives the cloth room to fall from the shoulders, with Irish linen inside. Pull it over a dress, or your Off Duty Joggers for a walk.
For the other six days
Good clothes.
Ordinary days.
A good jacket over jeans. A generous dress with flat shoes. The pleasure of dressing up can belong to an ordinary day, too.
With the collar showing
The Orla Poncho takes its generous shape from choir robes. Underneath, the deep purple collar and cuffs of the Temple Shirt bring the layers into view. Olive Off Duty Joggers keep the whole thing easy.
With the collar showing
The Orla Poncho takes its generous shape from choir robes. Underneath, the deep purple collar and cuffs of the Temple Shirt bring the layers into view. Olive Off Duty Joggers keep the whole thing easy.
Orla Poncho
Temple Shirt
Off Duty Joggers | Olive
A different kind of Sunday colour
Stained Glass linen brings colour into easy pieces you can wear together or make your own.
A different kind of Sunday colour
Stained Glass linen brings colour into easy pieces you can wear together or make your own.
Rose Dress | Stained Glass
Hallowed Blouse | Stained Glass
Amelia Trousers | Stained Glass
Things you notice up close
Lace at Josephine’s collar. The neat white neckline of Agnes. The generous collar and double-breasted front of Bridget.
The Bridget Blouse takes a formal double-breasted front and gives it the ease of soft, tumbled Irish linen. Put it beside the crisp sheen of a black Beetled Bow Skirt: two finishes of the same familiar cloth.
Things you notice up close
Lace at Josephine’s collar. The neat white neckline of Agnes. The generous collar and double-breasted front of Bridget.
The Bridget Blouse takes a formal double-breasted front and gives it the ease of soft, tumbled Irish linen. Put it beside the crisp sheen of a black Beetled Bow Skirt: two finishes of the same familiar cloth.
Josephine Dress
Agnes Shirt
Bridget Blouse
The Ceremony Dress
The Ceremony Dress takes the long, easy lines of choir robes into black Irish linen. Soft gathers at the neck give the cloth fullness, with a frog fastening adding a considered detail.
Flat shoes for a long lunch. The Twinkle Tweed Cape when the evening wants some gold.
The Bell Ringing Dress
Named for the bells that call everyone to church, with a decidedly short hem. Black Irish linen is beetled by William Clark & Sons until it has the sheen and crispness to hold those sculptural puff sleeves.
With tights and flat shoes, or over trousers for a different proportion.
Kept for Good
Worth wearing.
Worth keeping.
Made to order in Ireland, with care in the cloth and in the making. Clothes to wear often and grow fond of, until the good coat is simply your coat.
Kept for Good. For Sunday best, and the days we make special ourselves.