A lady called Mary Buchanan set up Slioch back in 1982. Based at Poolewe in the North West Highlands it was a small, bespoke business that specialised in tailor-made clothing for the outdoor person. Several Scottish mountain rescue teams had waterproofs made by Slioch and the jacket we have here in the collection once belonged to John Fraser of the Ochils Mountain Rescue Team.

Mary sold the business to a couple called Tes and Catherine Urquart-Taylor, we think in the late 1990s. They traded fairly successfully for a decade or so, but finally ran out of luck and business around 2006. The mountain which gave the company its name remains, tall and proud, beside Loch Maree, but sadly Slioch, the gear manufacturer is no more.