MADE IN UK
Up to 2025, all of Tender’s clothes and accessories were made in the UK. This was partly a matter of convenience as factories, ateliers, and maker’s homes were all no more than a drive away from the studio, but also because 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. Even lightweight shirts are produced on heavy machines designed for workwear and industrial purposes. By retooling and adjusting to allow for the fabric weight, garments come out with uniquely twisted or puckered seams. Longer stitch patterns give a feeling of practicality, but also avoid damaging the fabrics with unnecessary punctures and allow slight flexibility in the seams, helping the clothes to mould and form even better to the wearer’s body over time.
Clothes made in the UK have a woven label with a black elephant and a red size number.
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TYPE 904 CROSS CUT JEANS JACKET
The 904 jacket follows the season's experiments with cross cutting: the pattern is laid sideways across the denim fabric, which governs the length of the body and sleeves, which both finish with horizontal selvage lines.
TYPE 128 STRAIGHT JEANS
Straight Jeans are a distillation of what a pair of Tender jeans should be. There is no yoke and no shaping in the side seams- the outside seam is a straight selvage line all the way up to the waistband.
TYPE 102 CROSS CUT SHORT JEANS
These shorts are cut on the Type 132 Wide Jeans pattern, but, following the season's experiments with cross cutting, the pattern is laid sideways across the denim fabric.
TYPE 916 COMMON COAT
The Common Coat is Tender's first lined and faced revere jacket. Rather than aping a fully tailored garment, the manufacture remains true to the idea of understandable construction.
TYPE 131 LOST JEANS
Recut 'Lost' jeans from 2011. 130s with a slightly straighter lower leg, but not quite the full straight wide leg of 132s.
TYPE 130 TAPERED JEANS
High waist jeans with a generous seat and thigh, and a tapered leg.
TYPE 136 OXFORD JEANS
High waist extra wide jeans with a generous seat and thigh, and a very roomy straight leg.
TYPE 125 HIGH STRAIGHT JEANS
Straight leg jeans with an extra high rise and a generous seat and thigh.
TYPE 122 PLEAT BACK JEANS
Based on the 132 jeans pattern, 122 jeans do not have back pockets or a back yoke- the seat is shaped by two 'English' pleats, facing towards the middle.
TYPE 156 SPLIT BACK JEANS
Split Back Jeans are cut straight, with a very high waist. They hark back to the original research in 2010 for Tender's first jeans, adapted from vintage British Rail uniform trousers.
TYPE 006 BANDANA
Bandanas are cut from previous seasons' clothing fabrics, and weaving experiments which never made it into production.
TYPE 467 BOUND EDGE FLIPPED COLLAR SHIRT
The Bound Edge Flipped Collar Shirt was and experimental tangent on the way to developing the 468 Flipped Collar Shirt. The entire edge of the shirt, including the entire collar, is bound in a continuous sweep of ecru cotton bias binding.
