Delayed Diversions

Henry Poole's ash-delayed spring trunk show reached San Francisco this week, bringing with it a couple of small delights. The firm often seems to offer a diversion or two from its tailoring and this season it is cashmere sweaters and some very nice Japanese-made leathergoods.

Poole customers may recall that the company was offering made to measure Scottish cashmere knits a year or two ago. The 2010 offerings are not quite as traditional - I saw a lightweight single ply pullover that is better suited for wear under a jacket than the usual two and four ply stuff.


More interesting to me were the bridle leather wallets, made for Poole by a firm that does work for Hermes. The quality of the make was excellent and the pricing reasonable as these things go at £110 ($162.50) for a coat wallet and £125 ($185) for a fatter version designed to hold a checkbook. I was taken by the very elegant dark green and black color combination.

The wallets are available for purchase on the firm's web site. There is no sign of the knitwear.