001 Arriving W30 · PROPER HARDMAN
Graphic tee
Heavyweight woven black, white screen print.
Priced when it lands As it arrives
INDEX 001 · TWO ISLANDS, ONE SHELF.
W30 · Open Index 001 — 2026
Two islands,
one shelf.
Taiwan builds some of the best warm-rain clothing in the world and almost none of it reaches a British rail. This is a small shelf that carries it in one direction and British stock the other way, one photographed piece at a time.
兩座島，一個櫃 · Window W30 open · ships Friday
Window W30
Ships Friday
Next opens Monday
Taiwanese labels Arriving
TW → UK 26AW · Arriving
Clothing built for a wetter island Taiwanese labels, landing in Britain
Taipei gets a year of British rain in a season, and it gets it warm. The clothing that grew up around that weather is cut, vented and coated differently, which is exactly why it behaves so well in a British winter. Sizing and care are rewritten in English by hand, never machine-translated.
The four counters Index / W30
26AW
Taiwanese labels
TW → UK
Technical knits and warm-rain outerwear, listed as each piece is photographed.
The labels → W30British stock
UK → TW
What the British shelf carries this week, bought at retail and resold with its receipt.
This week → /OWNOur own
Own brand
A canvas tote and an embroidered cap. In sampling, listed once photographed.
The slots → /GIFTGift wrapping
Included
Handmade paper and a card in both languages, free on the first run.
What it is → 001 Arriving 
002 Arriving W30 · one left · PROPER HARDMAN
Slogan tee
One left from this run.
Priced when it lands As it arrives
003 Arriving W30 · PROPER HARDMAN
Brushed-back hoodie
Brushed inside, flat face outside.
Priced when it lands As it arrives
004 Arriving W30 · supplier image · NEAR SPIRIT
Hooded sweatshirt
Supplier listing photograph for now. Ours follows.
Priced when it lands Photograph to follow
05 Photograph to follow
005 Arriving 26AW
Taiwanese labels
Arriving as each piece is photographed.
Priced when it lands As it arrives
06 Listed once photographed
006 In sampling Own brand
Canvas tote
Our own. In sampling.
Priced when it lands Notify me
This week's window · open W30
Open now W30
Entries Eight
Ships Friday
Next window W31
W31 opens Monday, 10:00
The list sees each week's entries a day before the shop does. One letter a week, and nothing else in it.
W31 週一 10:00 開單 · 清單提前 24 小時
Label files What is on the shelf
All labels →
UK → TW PROPER HARDMAN · UK
A stack off the British shelf
Heavyweight woven cotton, white screen print. Photographed flat, on the rail and up close before anything is listed.
Read the file →
Detail PROPER HARDMAN · Detail
The label, close enough to read
A neck label and a print edge are the two frames that let you judge a piece from a phone screen. Both are taken for every item.
How we photograph → Supplier image NEAR SPIRIT · UK
Hooded sweatshirt, as supplied
White ground, no scene, and marked as the supplier’s own photograph. Ours goes next to it rather than over it.
See the piece →Nothing on a good jacket is where it is by accident.
Journal 003 · Taped seams and two-way zipsThe week W30
Monday
The window opens
The week's list goes public and you can order. Once you have, your order sits in this window, and this window ships on Friday.
Thursday
Bought and photographed
Your pieces are bought in the UK and photographed the same day with the receipt and the swing tag, and you see those photographs before anything is packed. Anything we cannot find is refunded the same day.
Friday
Your parcel ships
The box goes out and the postmark photograph and your tracking number follow the same day.
Arrival
An estimate, not a promise
Once the parcel is moving you get an estimated arrival, updated if it moves. It stays an estimate - a range that holds is worth more to you than a date that does not.
01 Photographed, every piece
02 Receipt and swing tag in frame
03 Sent to you before it ships
04 One parcel, one tracking code
Where to start with Taiwanese clothing Journal 001 — an introduction
No obligation to buy anything. The journal introduces the labels one at a time, and explains what the clothing is actually built to do.