Justo Gimeno for BEIGE

A centenary know-how

Justo Gimeno’s history started in 1885 when Justo Gimeno Padrilla travelled to Argentina and began training as a tailor. When he returned to Spain, he opened his first workshop at Zaragoza, city where Justo Gimeno is still operating today. Since that time Gimeno’s family realized high quality, British inspired, casual and hunting clothes. One of their famous products is the iconic Teba Jacket, well-known all over Spain.

The royal history of the Teba jacket

The first Teba Jacket was created on Savile Row for the need of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. As he was a hunter, this light and comfortable jacket was ideal for the practice of his favorite sport. The King offered, in act of generosity, this jacket to one of his friends and hunting partners, the Count of Teba, who rigorously wore it during all his excursions in the Spanish countryside. Since then, the jacket took the name of its new owner: Teba.

The Teba jacket is at a crossroad between a jacket and an overshirt which makes it both casual by its construction and formal by its Anglo-Saxons influences.