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You will forget the assembly. You will forget most of the presentations. You might even forget a few of the teachers' names. But you will not forget the hoodie. The one that had everyone's names on the back. The one that smelled of the last week of term. The one that still turns up in a drawer years later and takes you straight back. A Leavers Hoodie Is Not Really About the Hoodie That sounds strange coming from someone who makes them. But it is true — and it is why getting t

Some collections begin with a trend. Some begin with a colour palette or a mood board pinned to a studio wall. Pips Garden began with a person — and with the kind of love that does not go anywhere, even after someone does. Who Was Pip? Pip was my mother-in-law. She was the kind of gardener who did not just grow things — she nurtured them, paid attention to them, understood them in a way that went beyond technique. Her garden was not a hobby. It was an extension of who she was

There is something about a perfectly made white t-shirt. Crisp, clean, full of possibility. The kind of thing you reach for when you want to feel like yourself. That is where Brighty Whities begins. It Started With a Dream — and a Lot of T-Shirts I have wanted my own clothing brand for as long as I can remember. Not a vague, one-day-maybe kind of want — a proper, specific, persistent dream of creating garments that people would genuinely love to wear. I am a trained graphic d