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Free shipping over $99 Australia-wide. The goose insists. Designed in the Hunter Valley. Easy returns. Unlike your coworkers.
Our story · Rutherford, NSW
Fowlmouth started in Rutherford, in the Hunter Valley, the way most good ideas do. Someone said something out loud that everyone else was only thinking.
We’d spent years biting our tongues in meetings, at family barbecues and in group chats that should have been muted in 2019. All those unsaid things had to go somewhere. So we gave them to a goose.
If you’ve ever met a goose, you’ll know they don’t do small talk. They say exactly what they mean, at volume, then walk off like nothing happened. We found that inspiring.
So the goose got a logo. Then a tee. Then a hoodie. Since then we’ve been making clothes and goods people actually want to wear: things that say the quiet part, just quietly enough to get away with it.
the founder. allegedly.
Who it’s for
“Your social battery isn’t low. It’s just been allocated elsewhere.”
Fowlmouth is for people who are polite on the outside and keeping a detailed list on the inside.
You’ve sat through the meeting that should have been an email, then the follow-up meeting about the email. You’ve watched office politics play out like a nature documentary, narrated in your head. You’ve muted the group chat, unmuted it out of guilt, and muted it again. You know exactly how much small talk you have in you, and it’s less than they think.
You’re not angry, exactly. You’re just done. Quietly, stylishly done.
The collections
Everyone has a goose. Some are mildly inconvenienced. Some have screamed into a pillow this week. Pick the one that sounds like you, or like the person you’re buying for.
Puns, profanity and poultry, in roughly that order.
For the 9 to 5 that’s actually 8 to 6. Muted on every call.
Champagne taste. A mouth to match.
A club for people who’d rather not be in a club. Meetings permanently cancelled.
Forgive, never forget, keep the screenshots.
The goose without the manners. No dress code. No rules. No.
Holding it together in public. Barely, but beautifully.
We had some. We gave them away.
Where we are
Fowlmouth is designed in Rutherford, NSW, a short drive from more cellar doors than is probably healthy. Real people answer the emails, the full range is stocked exclusively at Mad Alice in Rutherford, and there’s a goose logo stuck to more surfaces than we’d like to admit.
We only make things we’d wear out of the house ourselves. If something isn’t right, you’ll hear back from a person, not a bot pretending to be a goose.
Find us in real life
At Mad Alice, 2/38 Shipley Drive, Rutherford NSW
Open Monday to Thursday, 9 to 5.
we’ll be friendly. mostly.
The philosophy
Everything we make follows one rule: 70% considered, 30% unhinged.
70%
Considered
30%
Unhinged
The part you notice later. Heavyweight fabrics, clean cuts, designs that hold up on a second look. It’s the tee you still reach for after the joke has worn off.
The goose. The line that makes a stranger laugh in the queue at the servo, or the hoodie that says what you were too professional to say in the meeting.
Too much goose and it’s a novelty shop. Too little and it’s just another plain tee. We spend an unreasonable amount of time getting the balance right, so you don’t have to.
If you’ve read this far and found yourself nodding slightly, you’re probably one of us. Welcome.
There are no meetings, no icebreakers, and nobody will make you share a fun fact about yourself. Just good clothes, honest opinions and a goose who gets it.
One email a fortnight. New drops first. Zero small talk.
Unsubscribe whenever. No hard feelings. Some hard feelings.
