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 wear 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 red and black and directly references those sold by Westwood and McLaren.

Condition: 9/10. No flaws.

Tagged size: F (fits M-L, see measurements for reference)

Shoulder: 20in

Pit to pit: 21.5in

Length: 25.5in

Sleeve: 25.5in