Cold-Iron Shirt

HebTroCo

£225

The Cold-Iron Shirt is a beast. More of a coat than a shirt but comfy and light feeling because the wax outer isn’t stiff and the quilted lining is soft like clouds. Why Cold-Iron? According to folklore cold-iron was used to repel evil spirits and bring good luck. Put on that Iron Shirt and drive Satan out of earth! Horseshoes made of cold-iron were hung over doors to ward off malevolent forces in just this way. The HebTroCo Cold-Iron Shirt wards off the rain and the cold. Wax cotton outer from Halley Stevensons in Dundee, Scotland the masters of waxed cotton. This blend of oils and waxes proo

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as HEBTROCO LTD, number 09958194. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Not yet checked.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.