Tender Co.

Tender has its roots in antique workwear and machinery, especially from the Great British Steam Age. On a steam train the tender was the truck which carried the coal and water to power the locomotive, and was coupled between the engine and the carriages. they were built incredibly solidly, most from riveted cast iron, and had to hold enough fuel to take a train weighing many tons across the length and breadth of Britain. The other important face of Tender is the nurture which is put into the clothes: in their research, design, manufacture, and wear. Just as a gardener tends to a rose bed, or a shepard is the tender to a flock of sheep, so we hope that Tender’s owners will live with their clothes, wearing them hard, but respecting their provenance and the stories they have to tell.