Nigel Cabourn''s clothing is some of the most in demand and highly prized by a certain kind of fashion victim as well as history buffs with a penchant for vintage styled and inspired clothing. Nigel was born in the United Kingdom in 1949 and he first attended Newcastle Upon Tyne Fashion College when he was just seventeen years old. Cabourn started a clothing label under his own name while he was still in his final year of his studies at Northumbria University in the North of England in 1971. The story goes that he found an old diary that belonged to his father from the year 1941 when his father was in the British Army. This diary was about Mr. Cabourn senior''s time in the army and it contained sketches of the clothing that the armed personnel wore at the time. Nigel found this diary and started to design clothing based on the sketches he found in it and based his first collection around these sketches.