It’s been a while since we’ve done one of our competitions so we thought we’d pull all the stops out and offer you the chance to win a serious piece of luxury winter wear. One of you lucky lot will be winning themselves an amazing S.E.H. Kelly ten-gauge, tuck-stitch, jumper (worth £280) in either a no nonsense crew or sumptous shawl neck. The “ten-gauge” part means ten stitches per inch, which doesn’t take much imagination to realise results in armour-type thickness. One jumper folded neatly, indeed, is the same height as four of S.E.H. Kelly’s semi-cutaway shirts (themselves no slouches in the thickness department).
The “tuck-stitch” part, meanwhile, means a traditional stitch with the yarn-strands woven into an interlocking matrix-like fortress of warmth. But what the jumpers gain in density and warmth they don’t lose a bit in comfort. The yarn is the finest lambswool going; lambswool that could quite easily get away with calling itself cashmere. And so the jumpers have a tremendous softness that is worlds away from the stiffness attendant to most knitwear of similarly nuclear-grade thickness.
S.E.H. Kelly make their garments using makers solely from within the British Isles meaning these incredible jumpers came together by working with one of the finest luxury knitwear makers in the country. Founded over 100 years ago, it works with hand-operated machines overseen by one person rather than the industrial-size knitting machines of the day. It is one of the only, perhaps the only, maker to do that in Britain. Slow going — relying on hand-operation, there’s no go-faster dial, and if a knitter’s wrist takes a knock (it can happen) production comes to a halt — but the results without doubt bear out the time, skill, and considerable effort involved.
So now you know just how phenomenal these jumpers are, it’s time to ENTER THE COMPETITION! We’re looking for the funniest and/or most original answer (rather than the correct one) to the following question….
WHAT DOES THE ‘S.E.H.’ IN S.E.H. KELLY STAND FOR?
You can answer in two ways, either by posting in the comment section on this page (including your size S, M, L or XL) OR by tweeting “The S.E.H. in @sehkelly stands for [your answer] and I am a size [your size]”. The jammy, jumper winner will be picked in a couple of weeks, so get entering and the best of British luck to you!
68 Comments
Somebody extremely hurt (he wasnt credited with half the quiz) Kelly (xl crew please)
Medium, shawl. Beautiful.
Strikhedonia-engorged harridans.
Stitching Enhanced Homicides
Medium please.
Bert’s is pretty good.
“Suave and Exceedingly Handsome” Kelly.
Flattery. Size L / 42 chest.
Sigh… Enough Heritage!
M
Spastic Eunuch’s Hard-on ( as in’ As much use as a Spastic Eunuch’s Hard-on)
I am XL..
Good food at low prices. What….wait, no that’s not it…..
Shawl necked English Heroics.
XL thankyouplease.
size small
Summer? England? Hah!
Smelly Espadrille Hum
Shawl – L
Sausage Egg Hungry
Shawl – Medium
if successful
Thanks A
Stitched to Erect Humans
Size Small
(S)waledale (E)st a laine merino (H)ebridean
(L)arge
Strangely Erotic Hairdo
I’ll have the shawl collar in XL, cheers.
Sombre English Hiking-wear
Oh, I’d love a medium you know…
Superbly executed haberdashery!
Mine’ll be a Large, squire. With the fancy neck.
Sexy, Enigmatic, Handsome….and thats just me…the jumper is even better!!! XL please!!!
surfing earplugged herring
size Medium
Sexually energized Howard
Large.
P.S. I’d best fucking win.
‘Societas Europaea Herpetologica’
I think it’s some kind of herpes society. Why you’d name your jumper company after something so horrible-sounding, I don’t know.
Probably why it’s just got their initials on the ticket. Imagine a lady spotting that while it was on her bedroom floor. You’d be known as ‘herpes Harry’, all over Facebook.
Anyway, I digress – large please
40″ chest, ta !
Size M
Soapy Erotic Housewife
Sara ‘Enigmatic Haberdasher’ Kelly
Size small please
Special Expedition Hikerdelia
Size Medium..
Balls, forgot the size. Medium.
Something Everyone Hungers
Something especially helpful
Size M, crew
Sarah, Ed and Henry
(Crew neck) (still large obv)
Societas Europaea Herpetologica
Large (obv).
Sweater’s Extremely Hip Kelly
Crew neck Large please
Soluble Elephant Hard-On
Medium please.
So Excited Here!
shawl neck xl please
Sweater’s Extremely Hip Kelly
Seriously Enriching Hedonists
S
Something Evidently Humorous.
Medium
“Rumpelstiltskin”
Medium.
Supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus. Existensial. Hulkamania.
Large.
Sandwiches eaten here, Kelly
I’m a large
Cheers
Supreme Eugene Haradene. S please.
Stolen Ewe Haberdashery
Large pls!
Seriously. Epic. Heat
XL – Ta
Supporting. English. Heritage
Size M
Something Extra Hirsute
Small please
Sex Extremely Hurts Kelly
Medium please.
Sex Extremely Hurts Kelly
So English it Hurts!
I’ll go Large for mine, pretty please!
Seriously Enriching Habiliments
XL
Sadistic.Earnie.Hurts (Kelly)
L, please.
Sexually.Excited.Henry.
XL/Crew neck please