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Welcome to the Tender Stores. Orders are charged in US$ and are dispatched from Pennsylvania USA.
Please contact us with any questions.
In 2024, Tender moved home and production from Gloucestershire in the UK to Pennsylvania, in the USA. Rather than operate long-distance, new seasonal garments are sewn close to our new home. While the design and pattern cutting remain in-house, there is a particular character and personality to different countries’ production: making and designing in parallel, in the same location, seem to lead to products with more integrity and coherence.
One of the reasons that Tender’s clothes have their own special feel is the selection of machines used. Clothes sewn in the UK were largely constructed with feed-of-the-arm single-pass felled seams. In the new US factory these machines are not available, so garments are sewn with single-needle sewing machines, making seams that are slightly flatter and more elegant. On the other hand, as the seams are constructed with two sewing passes judged by eye, the stitch lines are not quite as even and regular, adding a slightly different humanity into them.
Clothes made in the USA have a woven label with a blue size number.
The Hooded Draft Line Coat is generously cut with upside down raglan sleeves and a three panel hood.. At the back the draft lines marking the high shoulder points are extended up and down to create a single panel which runs up the back neck and over the top of the head, ending at the front of the hood.
The Draft Line Coat is generously cut with upside down raglan sleeves and a high neck. At the back the draft lines marking the high shoulder points are extended up and down to create a single panel which runs up the back from the hem to the top of the collar, removing the back neck seam.
Based on a Boy Scouts of America uniform jacket from the textiles collection at University of Wisconsin-Madison, the extra large collar can be worn up, down, or buttoned half way, tight to the neck.
Unlike most Tender jackets, which have a straight cut front, the Two:One jacket has shaped lapels with a large belly, to use the tailor's term.
The Pleat Pocket Shirt is cut with a large front panel pleated into the yoke to form a large hand-warmer pocket.
The Two Birds Shirt creates two pockets with one line of pocket stitching.
A plastron is a chest covering which sits over a lower layer. The same term is used to describe a fencer's chest pad, an armoured breastplate, and a tortoise's belly.
The Frock Shirt is a combination of a three-pocket work shirt and a tailored frock coat.
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 Isosceles Shirt is cut as a T shape, with horizontal shoulders and very wide sleeves. The machinist then sews a straight line from the top of the shoulder to the cuff, angling the shoulder and tapering the sleeve.
The Burro Shirt is cut without side seams, and the right and left panels are joined at the back with a double-thickness vertical panel, functioning as an oversized, rotated, traditional yoke.
The Frock Shirt is a combination of a three-pocket work shirt and a tailored frock coat.
