Anyone who has followed Moot from the very beginning, will know that Moot is Jules.
Jules is Moot.
But you might also know that Jules is still a metalworker and vintage car expert and is needed to keep quite a few projects in the world of vehicle conservation going.
If you have listened into any of Jules’ Friday chats on Instagram, received a note in your package, had an email, read any of the social media posts or enjoyed the many amazing photoshoots Moot has put on to show our designs, you may have realised that there is always another person in the background helping Jules to bring his Moot ideas to the world.
We wanted to ask Ray at what point he acknowledged a desire to wear something that as a man, he wasn’t ‘supposed’ to wear, and how did he feel in himself?, firstly acknowledging it and later, acting upon it. We wanted to hear about his internal feelings, not how other people reacted, but what the impact was like for him. And why despite people calling it cross-dressing, we don't think it's cross-dressing at all! It's simply dressing. Damn fine dressing.
When we first started talking about actually launching a men’s lingerie brand, we had the idea that we might get some negative comments from people, some frightened ‘haters’ might pop up and cast their gloom on our happy little business, but we naively had absolutely no idea, and were totally unprepared for, where the real trouble would lie...
What do people call them? Briefs, strings, thongs. sissy pants, panties, open briefs, ouvert, g-strings, crotchless, tangas, lacy, frilly, mangerie - they are all of these, but we are saying that they are not 'lingerie' any longer. Find out why...
When we try to explain the Moot brand to new people, it’s sometimes a challenge to get across all that we want it to stand for and to be for our community. It’s actually more than underwear. It is a small revolution. We have created the underwear because we love it and it’s what we wanted to have for ourselves, but we want Moot to represent a bigger feeling and it is that which becomes harder to explain. In the years that we have been talking about Moot, we have also been thinking about the people around us who are already walking the Moot walk, already living their brave truth. Those people who have managed to swim upstream and against...
