Country Life
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Barbour is a classic British brand which celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2019. Here, our luxury editor Hetty Lintell picks out her favourites from the present range, while Flora Watkins picks out six of the most best wax jackets that the company has ever made.
When the Scottish draper John Barbour started making and selling his oilskin clothing in South Shields back in 1894, he couldn’t have imagined that a century and a quarter later the Barbour business would be more successful than ever. Yet here we are, and the appeal of ‘the best of British clothing for the worst of British weather’ as the slogan went back in the 1980s is undimmed.