About Old Try

Goods for home and away. Rooted in the south but telling stories of wherever we may roam. A note from our founder: I had to get out of the South. Though my wife had lived in London and Manhattan, I’d never lived North of the Mason-Dixon line. So in ’07, we headed North. Like other Ex-Pat Southerners who had pangs of being away from home, I started thinking more about the South. About our collective pasts and our undetermined futures. And much to my surprise, I wanted to get back. But not just yet. I spent a good deal of time living in Mississippi, and Faulkner said to write what you know. Old Try started that way. By writing and designing Southern things for folks who lived in and out of the South. Things that connect people to a place they go to in their dreams, or a place they could never convince themselves to leave. Read their story