Flannel has traveled a long way from the woolen mills of Wales, where it was being made by the 17th century, to the closets of Queen Victoria, who ordered Welsh flannel from mail-order pioneer Pryce Pryce-Jones.
Along the way, it became American workwear, California surfwear—the Beach Boys were originally called the Pendletones—and, in 1992, high fashion when Marc Jacobs famously sent his grunge collection for Perry Ellis down the runway, scandalizing the fashion establishment and helping turn thrift-store style into fashion history.
That's quite a pedigree for a fabric whose enduring appeal comes down to something wonderfully elemental: a soft, brushed surface, warmth, texture and ease. Today I'm celebrating this hardworking fabric in all its fashionable incarnations with savings on our
Flannel Collection.
