Yarmouth Oilskins

Yarmouth Oilskins is a British maker of coastal workwear, established in Great Yarmouth in 1898. That year Johnson and Sons became a limited company, and four of its partners joined local businessmen to form Yarmouth Stores Ltd, making oilskins, smocks and workwear for the herring fishing industry and seafarers. The company exported around the world and, before the Second World War, employed more than 1,200 people, most of them machinists. Today the label makes classic, unisex functional clothing designed to be layered for the weather. It is best known for its smocks, including The Classic Smock, The Hooded Smock, The Shawl Collar Smock and The Explorer Smock, alongside The Admiralty Shirt, The Deck Jacket, The Drivers Jacket, The Bib and Brace and The All English Tee. Everything is made in the company's own factory in Great Yarmouth, using traditional methods and many of its original patterns. The collection is made mainly from cotton, linen and wool, including some deadstock fabrics. Yarmouth Oilskins remains an independent, family-owned company, still working from its factory on the English coast more than 125 years after it began.