Van Mildert - Mens Designer Clothing

Woven are proud to announce a collaboration with Peter Jones CBE and H J Hall in the launching of a new, bright and exciting range of socks.

Peter Jones is known for being one of Britain’s most successful entrepreneurs, for his appearance on Dragons’ Den and particularly for his taste in bright and stripey socks; the development of a range endorsed by him was an inevitable step.

We have recognised that in these times of doom and gloom on the high street, the only way forward is with something new, bright and different. This collaboration with Peter Jones is a reaction to an opportunity that can only encourage optimism and enthusiasm with high street retailers.

At the age of 28, John Hall, a foreman for a hosiery manufacturer in Hinckley, asked his bank for a £1200 overdraft to build the first HJ Hall factory in the small Leicestershire village of Stoke Golding. From his meagre wage of £2 a week, he managed to save £500, a substantial sum in 1882. This was doubled by his wife, Sarah Hall, who raised a mortgage on their house, which she owned.

From a small firm employing just 16 people and with a monthly turnover of £32 4s 4d, HJ Hall has grown to become the largest independent UK sock manufacturer today.