Casuarina

Summer clothes for people who live near the sea

Made up the coast, sold from one shop in Salt Rock.

Shop the summer

Everything we make

Raffia Wide-brim Hat
Hats

Raffia Wide-brim Hat

Plaited raffia with a 9cm brim and a soft cotton sweatband, blocked over a wooden form so it holds its shape all season. Squash it into a beach bag and it opens out again without a permanent fold.

R620.00Choose a size
Washed Linen Camp Shirt
Shirts

Washed Linen Camp Shirt

Belgian linen washed twice before it is cut, with a flat camp collar and a straight hem meant to be worn out. It creases the way linen creases and we have stopped apologising for that.

R1 190.00Choose a size
Ribbed Swim Short
Swim

Ribbed Swim Short

Ribbed quick-dry cloth on a flat drawstring, with a mesh liner and a 13cm leg. It goes into the sea heavy and is dry again by the walk back up to the car.

R590.00Choose a size
Leather Slide Sandal
Footwear

Leather Slide Sandal

Vegetable-tanned leather over a moulded cork bed that takes the print of your foot inside a week. Cut and finished by hand in Pietermaritzburg, and the sole can be replaced when it goes.

R980.00Choose a size
Flat-weave Beach Towel
Home

Flat-weave Beach Towel

Heavy Turkish cotton woven flat, so it folds down to about the size of a jersey and dries on the line in an hour. 100 by 180cm, which is two people and no argument.

R450.00Add to cart
Tortoiseshell Sunglasses
Eyewear

Tortoiseshell Sunglasses

Hand-polished acetate in a warm tortoiseshell with polarised grey lenses, which are the only kind worth wearing off the water up here. Hard case and a cloth in the box.

R750.00Add to cart
Hats
Hats
Shirts
Shirts
Swim
Swim
Footwear
Footwear
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Eyewear
Eyewear

We only make summer

The doors shut at the end of April and open again in September. Nothing in here was designed to be worn under a jersey.

Made close to home

Linen cut in Durban, sandals lasted in Pietermaritzburg, hats plaited in Tongaat. None of it arrived in a container.

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Salt Rock, open until the light goes

We are on the old main road above the tidal pool. Nine to six in summer, later while it stays light. Ask about sizing before you order and we will go and measure the actual garment.