built to serve
Lockwood was founded in 2024 on a simple idea. If you’re going to make clothing, make it properly, and make it in Britain. Two years on, that hasn’t changed.
Where it began
2024
I started Lockwood while I was still serving, building it alongside my military career. The idea was simple. Make clothing properly, make it in Britain, and put the work into British hands. Lockwood launched on 23 September 2024, with our first smocks made by a factory in Devon. The people who bought them backed an unknown name. I haven’t forgotten that.
Finding Our Factory
2025
In February 2025 we moved production to Oldbury, in the Black Country, to a family-owned factory run by three generations of the same family. It’s where our smocks, gilets and headwear are made today. Moving there gave us closer control over quality, and a factory we can walk into any day of the week. That’s what making it in Britain should look like.
Lockwood Clothing
2026
In July 2026, Lockwood Smocks became Lockwood Clothing. The smock is still at the heart of it, but the range had grown into a proper wardrobe: gilets and quarter zips in the Barracks Collection, polos named for the Household Cavalry, and headwear. In September, Ruth joined full time to run the day to day, and Lockwood turned two. Still made in Britain. Still standing behind every piece.
- Cut, stitched and finished in Britain, from British cloth wherever it can be sourced here
- Built with components chosen to outlast the garment rather than to hit a price
- Checked by hand before the range goes on sale: stitching examined, seams pulled hard, the garment worn, then washed cold, at 40 degrees and boiled, to find what gives
- Repairable, and repaired in preference to replaced
- Sold at an honest, transparent price, and it stays that way: no seasonal sales and no discount codes; the only reduction is a discontinued design, cleared at the end of its life
- Fit for purpose: every item answers a need the range does not already cover, and then does that job properly
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By Jacob, ex-Coldstream Guards
