Methodology

How we keep this catalogue current

What gets re-read, how often, and what happens to a piece that sells out.

Prices

Every price on this site comes out of our own product data and is rewritten when it moves. The catalogue was last updated on September 10, 2026, and at that update it held 23 styles in stock across 1,461 colour and size combinations. Where a figure here and the figure at the till disagree, the till is the one that counts.

A piece we cannot currently buy does not appear at all. It is not hidden behind a “currently unavailable” label: it comes off the site at the next build and comes back by itself when it returns to stock, because the catalogue behind these pages keeps asking about it either way.

Sizes, pockets and colourways

These come from the same product data and are rebuilt from it on every pass, so nobody types a pocket count into a paragraph by hand. The size run on a card is the run that piece is cut in at our last update, printed as its own run rather than as the shelf offers overall, and a size missing from it is missing from the piece rather than from the page. Where a piece gives no fibre content, the line is left blank rather than guessed, and where it gives one, the label sewn into the garment is still the document that governs washing.

Pictures

Every photograph on this site shows the colourway being sold, on a body where the brand photographed it that way. A frame with a size chart or a sales slogan printed into it is left out, and that is the reason a card shows one photograph rather than a strip, and a picture that argues with what is written beside it is pulled instead of captioned around.

Claims about sun, labels and safety

Anything on this site that touches sun protection, fibre labelling or care instructions is written under a published source rather than over one. A UPF figure is printed as the label gives it and described as a property of dry, unstretched cloth. The register below is the whole of it, and every entry was opened and read on September 10, 2026 before a link was put on it.

Corrections

If a size run, a pocket count or a colourway on this site argues with the piece in your hands, write to frontnine@michelrouen.org with the page and the figure. It gets fixed at the next update, and we say what changed. The rest of what Michel Rouen will and will not print about itself is set out in the editorial standards.

Where this comes from

Sun-Protective Clothing · The Skin Cancer Foundation. What a UPF figure means: 30 to 49 is very good protection and 50+ is excellent, 50 is the floor for the Foundation's seal, dark and densely woven cloth protects more than pale and sheer, and cloth that is stretched or wet loses part of its rating. Read September 10, 2026.
What to wear to protect your skin from the sun · American Academy of Dermatology. Cover as much skin as you can, avoid a loose or open weave, prefer dark colours, remember that dry cloth protects more than wet, and look for a UPF number on the label. Read September 10, 2026.
Threading Your Way Through the Labeling Requirements Under the Textile and Wool Acts · US Federal Trade Commission. What a garment label must state: fibre content by generic name and percentage by weight in descending order, the country of processing or manufacture, and the maker or marketer by name or RN. A fibre under five percent is "other fiber" unless it has definite functional significance, and spandex for stretch is the guide's own example of one that has. Read September 10, 2026.
Clothes Captioning: Complying with the Care Labeling Rule · US Federal Trade Commission. The Care Labeling Rule: washing method, bleach, drying, ironing where it is needed regularly, and warnings, each backed by reliable evidence the maker holds, on a label attached permanently and securely and legible for the useful life of the piece. Read September 10, 2026.