Silly Silas
It starts with a parcel from home. Terry, a Czech-born mother living in Stockholm, receives a pair of tights from her mother — the kind with little braces, the kind every child wore in 1950s Czechoslovakia, the kind that had quietly disappeared. She puts them on her son and something clicks. In 2011, she founds Silly Silas to bring them back, working with small family-run workshops in the Czech Republic where the craft has been passed down for generations. The tights are made from soft organic cotton, come in colours that mix across seasons, and have the particular quality of things that were almost lost — made with more care because someone had to go looking for them.
