Harriet Eccleston: The sustainable Yorkshire clothes maker continuing a family tradition stretching back generations

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Harriet Eccleston’s clothing brand based out of a former factory in Kelham Island, Sheffield, has sustainability and heritage at its core.In the third in our Meet the Makers series, Barney Stephenson reports. Main pictures by James Hardisty.

Our choice of clothes helps to define how we think of ourselves and how we think of others. An outfit can suggest social status, political beliefs, a certain taste in music and even our mood on any given day - there’s always story behind the clothes we wear. It’s one of the reasons Harriet Eccleston, whose clothing brand goes by the same name, felt compelled to continue in a family tradition of tailors, drapers and milliners stretching back generations. “It’s quite a personal thing,” she says.

It’s the sort of historically informed detail Harriet loves. Another example comes with a strong feminist message. Harriet’s “powerful pockets”, the deep patch pockets that feature on the Eddi jacket, as well as shirts, dresses and sweatshirts across her range, are inspired by one particularly notable customer at her grandfather’s shop. “A family member sent me a receipt signed by my grandfather made out for a Ms Emily Wilding Davidson for a pair of gloves to be dry cleaned.

 

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