Though General Research’s lasting impact was left in the realm of technical, outdoors oriented-wear, their output was rife with punk-influenced garments that borrowed heavily from what Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren put out under their Seditionaries and World’s End labels. Especially in their early years, the label released numerous iterations of mohairs, bondage trousers, muslin shirts, and patchwork button-downs which may feel outwardly anathema to the technical wears they’d pivot to, but in fact share a close ideological alignment with the label’s guiding light, Henry Thoreau. General Research’s embrace of the wild was less about a connection to nature as it was about the rejection of an unjust society, not dissimilar to the ideas behind Vivienne Westwood’s Seditionaries.

This mohair is made with thick stripes of black and blue, and directly references those sold by Westwood and McLaren.

Condition: 9/10. No significant flaws.

Tagged size: F, fits L. See measurements for reference.

Shoulder: 31.5in (drop shoulders)

Pit to pit: 23in

Length: 27.5in

Sleeve: 19in, 30in measured from neck