About Paul and Shark

Paul & Shark is an Italian clothing house best known for knitwear and technical outerwear with a nautical background, and a Paul and Shark discount code is spent at a price level where the fabric technology is the point. The brand's reputation rests on treating natural fibres so they behave like technical ones, and understanding what those treatments do, and how long they last, is the difference between looking after a jacket and ruining it.

Water-repellent wool is a finish, not a fibre

The brand's weatherproof knitwear and outerwear rely on a treatment applied to the surface of the cloth, not on the wool itself. That finish is durable but not permanent: it wears at the cuffs and shoulders and washes out gradually. Garments carrying it should be washed as the label states, never with fabric conditioner, which coats the fibres and cancels the repellency, and the finish can usually be refreshed with a wash-in product made for the purpose.

Cashmere is graded, and the grade is in the feel

Cashmere quality comes from fibre length and fineness rather than from the word on the label. Longer fibres pill less and hold their shape; short-fibre cashmere feels soft in the shop and goes fuzzy within a season. Two-ply and heavier constructions last longer than the thinnest knits. All cashmere pills somewhere, and a comb rather than a razor is the tool for it.

Italian sizing runs to European numbers

Jackets and knitwear are sized in the Italian numeric system, roughly the chest in centimetres divided by two, so a 50 is about a UK 40 chest. The cut is generally trim through the chest and shoulder. Where a listing gives garment measurements, use those, since converting a size in your head loses the shape.

Storing a technical knit

Fold knitwear rather than hanging it, because the weight of a heavy knit pulls the shoulders out over a season. Store it clean, since moth larvae feed on the residue of wear rather than on clean wool.

Using a Paul and Shark discount code

Enter the code at checkout and confirm the total falls before paying. Codes at this level of the market routinely exclude current-season collections, collaborations and items already reduced, and one applies per order. Check which regional storefront the code belongs to before building a basket.