You gotta love a fashion label that recommends wearing coats with nothing underneath and also produces organic leather certified to Soil Association standards. Gotta love it, provided you're gilded or spend most of your cash on clothes. Romp's only mens' garment currently on sale, a waistcoat, is going for a cool £49,000. The classic womens' raincoat in the picture, however, is a relative snip at £745. In fairness to Romp, its womens' clothes do look superb and the company's commitment to"good animal husbandry, environmental respect and civlised labour law" win it plenty of greenie points. You can buy bespoke and pret-a-porter stuff online and in Dublin and London. [found via Treehugger]
Thanks for the name check.
The mens jacket mentioned is the first certified organic leather and fully traceable garment ever made. It's based on an 1860's (pre-chromium) cavalry officer's jacket, its called an eco-warrior, because it actually increased the viability of the Organic farm it came from, and it's mine. The price tag is specific to that jacket being the amount of money it would take to part me from it.
If you would like ROMP to make you one, it would be a far better product now. It would be much softer to the touch it would be organically wax finished and would cost around GBP 1,500.00, made to measure from an English Organic Farm of your choice. (The new range will appear on our site this season around September).
Basically your jacket would be the cheapest made to measure Soil Association Certified Organic leather jacket on the planet and the same price as any other designer garment in money terms. Of course any other designer jacket could not be an eco-warrior and consequently would not be tanned with tree bark and flowers, would not support bio diversity and good practice in the English countryside, and would not allow you to know the actual name of all the specific and individual workers involved, the impact of every chemical actually used on that jacket, the farm from where the actual leather came and the standard to which the animals were husbanded from its own unique label number. Or for that matter would it be designed by Nina Morgan-Jones at ROMP.
For those who don't approve of leather, we generally agree that most leather is now offensive, but bear in mind that everything is not the same and there are 86 species of bird and countless other species of U.K. wildlife which are being supported and encouraged by the organic farm this jacket came from. You support us, we support them.
Also you need to be aware that you can ramble with your kids on the very fields where these animals are raised with out being poisoned or chased away. So really, you support us, we support them, they support you .
Vive ut Vivas
Greg