New-ish to the store is Cape Town sock brand MightyLongDog. Founded in 2021 by Eugene & Rene Labuschagne, the brand was named after their lengthy and very active sausage dog, Dash.
Knitted on a Japanese knitting machine using South African sourced yarns, the socks are hand tailored for right and left feet. Formerly Executive Food & Beverage Manager for Table Mountain, Eugene has been knitting since he was a young boy, while Rene has a long history of pattern making and fashion design, having worked for Woolworths suppliers for a large portion of her career.
We ran our 11 questions past the husband and wife duo to get a look into their lives in Cape Town and their extended world.
We only had to look as far as Buitengracht Street for the next person to pose our 11 questions to. This week’s questionnaire recipient is Chris (Jack) Howard of premium sneaker and apparel consignment space, Story. After spending years touring South Africa’s techno and house music circuits as a successful DJ and directing parties and …
They grow up so fast. After a year and a half, our hallmark questionnaire has graduated from 11 to 15 questions. With more questions about Cape Town favourites and other recent obsessions, we’ll be challenging the honourable recipients of our questions to give away more recommendations and city secrets, otherwise kept hush for the sake …
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11 Questions with Eugene & Rene of Mighty Long Dog
New-ish to the store is Cape Town sock brand MightyLongDog. Founded in 2021 by Eugene & Rene Labuschagne, the brand was named after their lengthy and very active sausage dog, Dash.
Knitted on a Japanese knitting machine using South African sourced yarns, the socks are hand tailored for right and left feet. Formerly Executive Food & Beverage Manager for Table Mountain, Eugene has been knitting since he was a young boy, while Rene has a long history of pattern making and fashion design, having worked for Woolworths suppliers for a large portion of her career.
We ran our 11 questions past the husband and wife duo to get a look into their lives in Cape Town and their extended world.
Rene wears the Navy Linen Nehru Collar Dress from Good Good Good, paired with the Sunburst colourway socks from Mighty Long Dog. Eugene wears Daniel’s Work Wear Trousers & Basil’s Fishing Vest, both in the Wild Dagga colour way from Good Good Good, layered with the Raise The Flag T-Shirt by Rich Mnisi. His socks are the Grape colourway by Mighty Long Dog. Dash wears a the Denim Dog Sweater from the Mighty Long Dog.
Photographed by Christina Fragkou & styled by Peter Georgiades.
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