Fibres and hand-feel
Materials
Natural fibres first, chosen for how they feel and for how they take colour.
Every Ploumanac'h piece is coloured after it is made, so the fibre matters twice: once for how the garment sits on the skin, and once for how it receives the dye. Pure cashmere and fine merino in the knitwear; linen, cotton and voile in the shirts.
Where a garment needs stretch or strength, a small share of elastane or polyamide is part of the blend. The exact composition of every piece is on its product page and on the label inside.
Shirts and summer pieces
For warm days
Linen
Cool, dry and slightly crisp at first, softer with every wash. Linen breathes in the heat and takes the Rainbow dye in a deep, irregular way that suits it. In our shirts, on its own or blended with cotton.
Cotton voile
A fine, semi-sheer cotton, light enough to move in a breeze. It takes colour evenly and keeps a shirt cool against the skin.
Cotton piqué and jersey
The textured weave of a polo and the smooth knit of a T-shirt. Soft and easy, made for every day; in some styles a touch of elastane helps them keep their shape.
Viscose
Drawn from cellulose, viscose falls in soft, fluid folds and feels cool to the touch. It gives drape to trousers, dresses and T-shirts, often blended for movement and recovery.
Knitwear
For cooler days
Merino wool
Extra fine merino: light, warm without weight, comfortable directly on the skin. It is the base of much of our winter knitwear, pure or blended with a little cashmere.
Cashmere
Pure cashmere for the softest pieces, and cotton-cashmere or merino-cashmere blends where a lighter, more everyday knit is wanted. Warmth that feels like very little.
Silk and cashmere
Silk and cashmere together, 55 and 45 per cent: a fine knit with a soft sheen and a fluid fall, light enough for warmer evenings.
Garment dyeing
Colour and fibre
A dye behaves differently on each fibre: linen takes it deep and irregular, cotton more evenly, merino and cashmere softly, close to the surface. That is why the same colour name can look a little different from one garment to another.