Dobermann archive tees, sweatshirts and hoodies

Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann collected taxes in Apolda, in Thuringia, and also ran the local dog pound, which gave him both a reason to want protection on his rounds and the material with which to breed it. By the 1880s he had a dog of his own type: fast, clean-coated, unmistakably serious. Refinement continued after his death, and the breed moved into police and military service across Europe. Owners meet a rather different animal to the reputation, one that reads a room quickly, presses a shoulder into your leg and stays there, and complains about British weather, since that thin coat offers no help whatsoever in February. The archive plate is drawn with ears and tail left as the dog is born, the tan points marking out the structure underneath.