COMMUNITY CLOTHING’S BRITISH MADE ESSENTIALS FOR SUMMER 2026

Community Clothing’s Summer 2026 collection is a lesson in packing less and wearing more. Designed and made entirely in the UK using natural fibres, the collection brings together the pieces that earn their place in a wardrobe year after year, from linen trousers and striped shirting to lightweight outerwear and hardworking denim.

Built for the realities of a British summer, one day spent on a Cornish coastline, the next navigating a rainy commute the collection favours versatility over trend. These are clothes designed to work across changing temperatures, unpredictable weather and busy lives, moving easily from city to coast, staycation to holiday.

Outerwear remains central to the collection, with pieces including the Belted Raincoat, Polocoat and Jodie Denim Jacket offering lightweight layering for cooler mornings and evenings. Meanwhile, easy summer staples such as the Olivia Shirtdress and Ava Shirt are designed to be worn repeatedly throughout the season, whether packed for a week away or styled closer to home.

Denim continues to sit at the heart of the Community Clothing wardrobe. The Work Straight Leg Jean, Linda Wide Leg Jean and Charlie Denim Miniskirt are designed as long-term staples rather than seasonal purchases, sitting alongside lighter alternatives including the Lightweight Work Trouser and Lorna Linen Trouser.

Finishing pieces include lightweight knitwear for cooler evenings and the Community Clothing x Norman Walsh Catlow trainer, handmade in Bolton and inspired by classic British running silhouettes.

As with every Community Clothing collection, each piece is made in partnership with British factories and manufacturers, supporting skilled jobs and helping to keep production in communities across the UK.

FEATURE IDEAS:

THE CAPSULE TEST — Cornwall to Corfu, one case: What does a genuinely versatile holiday wardrobe look like? Community Clothing’s Summer 2026 collection makes the case for packing less and wearing everything. The Belted Raincoat for a British summer that can’t make its mind up; the Lorna Linen Trousers and Olivia Shirtdress for warmer days; denim that works on the ferry and at dinner.

THE HIDDEN COST OF HOLIDAY FASHION: The one-wear holiday outfit has become fast fashion’s quiet peak season. Community Clothing offers a wearable counter-argument: timeless, British-made essentials designed to outlast trends and holidays alike. Six pieces that last, not sixteen that don’t.

FEWER MILES THAN YOU: A summer wardrobe with a shorter journey than its wearer. Every Community Clothing garment is traceable to the UK factory, and the people who made it. Today, the brand supports 1,926 jobs across 48 mills and factories, from Lancashire to South Wales, including the Norman Walsh x Community Clothing Catlow trainer, handmade in Bolton.

FESTIVAL KIT YOU WON’T BIN: Festival style without the throwaway culture. Hardwearing denim, natural fibres and British-made lambswool designed to survive the campsite, come home again and become part of your everyday wardrobe, not the disposable festival haul.

ABOUT COMMUNITY CLOTHING

Community Clothing is a British clothing brand and social enterprise founded in 2016 by award-winning clothing designer and judge on BBC One’s The Great British Sewing Bee Patrick Grant. Community Clothing does good things for people and communities in the UK, creating jobs where they’re needed most.

The mission is simple; to sell great quality clothes at prices people can afford; to make these clothes in the best British factories from the finest natural materials; and by doing this to create work and support skilled jobs in regions of the UK that need them most. In short, Community Clothing sells great quality clothes, at affordable prices and consequently creates loads of fantastic jobs in places that really need them. 

To date Community Clothing has created nearly half a million hours (and counting) of work and supported 1,926 jobs. Community Clothing has a network of 48 partner factories all over the UK, located predominantly in the Northwest, Yorkshire, the East Midlands and South Wales.

Community Clothing has developed a unique business model that keeps costs super low, enabling the brand to produce clothes in the very best UK factories from the best materials, and still sell them at affordable prices. The unique business model utilises off-peak production, creates seasonless, brilliant basics, supports ultra local supply chains and promotes radical simplicity.

For further information, please contact:

Laura Adams

laura@whitehair.co

+44 (0)7917 694 953

www.whitehair.co