YaccoMaricard is a Japanese brand designing and manufacturing their much-loved sculptural cotton shirts, silks and denims. The YaccoMaricard pintuck has become the label's trademark and has remained a handworked detail since the brand's inception in Tokyo in 1979.  Each tuck is made by skilled technicians by hand, panel by panel and then constructed into the final piece.  The width and spacing of each tuck varies in every style.

Focusing on mainly natural fibres, the brand's high quality materials are sourced and developed in Thailand. The cotton used varies in density and has names such as lawn (light weight), broad (medium), Katsuragi (heavy) and cotton washer (soft, slightly brushed, medium weight). The cotton ranges are machine washable.  Each garment is piece-dyed using a reactive dye process which enables a wide range of light and dark hues to be spanned. As they are constructed with cotton thread, YaccoMaricard wearers can redye at a later date.  The dye process used produces no harmful toxins and waste water is used to fill fish ponds at the Thailand factory.

Most garments are trans-seasonal and are made in Yacco Maricard’s signature simple silhouettes with elegance and comfort in mind. There are shirts that can be worn on their own or as jackets and can be dressed up or down giving them a wonderful extended life. Incredibly there is no sizing in this range but, because of the cut, many will fit up to a UK size 18 or even 20. We have been selling Yacco Maricard clothes in our store in Ledbury since 2003 and we never cease to be amazed by their addictive quality. Once you have one of their shirts, you are hooked for life.

The reasons for this are quite clear.

• They are exceptionally well made and the quality shines through every garment
• They look good on just about every shape and age
• They are perfect travelling garments, being easy to fold as only Japanese shaping allows
• They are machine washable (at 40°C) and can either be line-dried (in which case they may not need ironing) or tumble dried
• Their characteristic pleating is unbelievably easy to iron - just iron straight across the direction of the pleats.

We love these shirts so much that we want to share them with people who can't make it to our store in Ledbury. Initially we offered a small selection of mainly white shirts on our website. However, the demand has been so overwhelming that we have expanded the offering online to include our seasonal coloured shirts, coats and silk garments. We have tried to give an indication of whom each style would be best suited to. The dimensions are approximate as there may be slight variations in manufacture so are a guideline only.