IHSH-51 - Ultra Heavy Winter Flannel Westerns - 2011 Edition
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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.
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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
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(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…....
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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
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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
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Sorry for being offtopic, but I strongly hope for lighter weight shirts in the future. Self designed or not (but prefereably self designed.) Wasn't it intented, to do lighter weight stuff under the Triple Works label? Please don't stop doing them.
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Is it just me or do these look thinner than previous years? I know it's hard to tell from the pics and I am praying I'm wrong, I really really hope not.
