IHSH-51 - Ultra Heavy Winter Flannel Westerns - 2011 Edition

[Giles]

late this month/early next

[ALEX1976]

great!
thanks

[7tacos]

[Giles]

Getting closer to reality…...

[J-IV]

I feel like this are being overshadowed by the 52's and 54's. Anyone still planning on owning one of these bad boys?

[Max Power]

The black is nice (don't like the red at all), but I don't like super thick shirts too much. So, maybe some fitpics will convince me.

[Giles]

@J-IV:

I feel like this are being overshadowed by the 52's and 54's. Anyone still planning on owning one of these bad boys?

I have had more "tell me when they come" forms completed for this than any other item ever…...

[Seul]

That's good. Black still looks good imo but neither are my style. But I do like a good selling IH product… 

[J-IV]

Well that's great news. I guess everything was a must have this season. Like you guys didn't know that already..::)

[Giles]

There are certain items that we release annually that sell like crack.

The ultra heavy winter westerns
Meltons
SuperBlack westerns

And

The lightweight summer Herringbones (till we stopped doing them)…...

[J-IV]

@Giles:

(till we stopped doing them)…...

say what…

[bagley920]

I'll be ordering the black one when they are available! Best shirt IH shirt I've seen by far!

[madmonday]

yeah they didn't come out last year 

hopeful we correct that next year & get at least one variant.

these shirts will do what heavies do; inintial release boom & then slow & steady sales till they are all gone.  i will say this is the first heavy that i have seen such strong reactions on.  either folks seem to just love or hate them.

[bagley920]

For me, the black shirt has a great pattern, whereas the red is "too much"

[madmonday]

post above was referencing  the light weight shirts @ the start 

i think as with most things we won't really know about these until G gets 51s in-house & gets (some proper) images up.  unfortunate but true story

[Giles]

@J-IV:

@Giles:

(till we stopped doing them)…...

say what…

We have always designed and made the denim we use for our jeans etc, from first principles, and it is exclusive to us.

We used to buy the shirtings in.  Then one day we found that shirts were popping up on the market made out of the same fabric as we were making ours in (case in point the lightweight summer herringbones).  Obviously, we could not stop the mills selling their stock product to whomever they liked.

So we made the decision to design our shirtings from first principles and the stuff would be exclusive to us.  This imposed a massive extra work load on Haraki and he just could not design as many patterns as he wanted too.  First casualty were the lightweight summer mini herringbones, I will be discussing whether we can reintroduce, when I am with him in 2 weeks time…....

[Finn666]

^great info right there.
thanks for sharing G.

[madmonday]

total off topic of this thread, but in tune with the above you should have a contest for a flannel pattern design.

would be pretty cool 

[Giles]

Haraki and I share the same principal (it actually gets us some hate in the industry) of hiding nothing.  If we have not told you something,  we just have not got round to it, forgot, or did not think it important

[madmonday]

^^^
true story, not about the industry hate (i have no idea about that) just not mentioning little things as they make items to their own specifications & standards.  one of the best exchanges on the forum was when it was "discovered" that the new tees were loopwheeled & it was just mentioned in passing because that loopwheeled doesn't equal quality, which is a very important part of the Iron Heart ethos.

ok enough of butchering this thread for me as it is obvious i'm a fanboy of the brand & if not of everything they do at least the way they attempt to conduct themselves