Maintenance: Kent Brushes

Brushmakers G.B. Kent & Sons Plc and its predecessor companies have been royal warrant holders nine times since Queen Victoria and currently hold a warrant from Queen Elizabeth. That usually means that a company is the best of its type in the United Kingdom and Kent has certainly been successful for a long time. It's said that the kit of every English officer in 19th century India held a set of their brushes.

The Kent web site offers a wide range of brushes for grooming, but this essay is principally about clothes care. You need brushes to remove dust and lint from your tailored clothing.

The mainstay of my brush wardrobe is their double-sided (soft bristle for jackets and stiff bristle for trousers) CC20 brush for £29.50. You may wish to complement it with a soft CP6 for cashmere (£20.00), a £13.00 CG1 for travel, and/or an LPC2 brush for removing hair from the other brushes (£2.45). There's also a shoe care set for £26.00.

Ordering from the web site is easy. Kent accepts most major credit cards in dollars or pounds and ships promptly by air mail once an order is complete. Delivery outside the UK takes up to fifteen days.

Brushes are guaranteed against defective materials and workmanship. According to the company, defective items will be repaired or replaced free of charge.