JAPAN TRIP November 2011

[Megatron1505]

@urbanwoodsman:

@Beatle:

Just realized that my trip starts on 11/11/11 with departure time 11.00 am … Love it ..

"We have to go back, Kate!!! We have to go back!!!"

Genius 

[Giles]

We're off to the land of the rising sun, and at this time of the morning, this is the best I can do…...

[mvb]

have a safe trip

[hectic]

Have a great time y'all

[Giles]

Doors closed and "turn off all electronic devices" announcement underway…....I'll see you later from Tokyo....

[rocket]

have a safe trip and fun over there….

[J-IV]

Have a great time and party hardy!

[babyknight]

can't wait for the first pics of the trip…

[Seul]

These are always the worst… So many sneak peek pics ahead… 

Safe travels - have fun!..

[Seul]

Earth to IH Crew… Earth to IH Crew... Come in please...

[Max Power]

I hope for some spring weight flannels in nice colours…

[Seul]

SHORTS… SHORTS... SHORTS... 

BACKPACK... BACKPACK... BACKPACK... 

[Finn666]

backing the idea with the backpack

[kiya]

Follow some of the progress here:
http://twitter.com/selfedge

[J-IV]

Kiya to the rescue!

[Max Power]

Shorts…great idea. Although the chopping service hopefully continues.

[Giles]

Sorry, people, manic here.  Spent today at The Works.  Beats took a million pics, I promise we will start getting some up here soon.

[Max Power]

YES!

[Giles]

Today, I asked Tom and Haraki who are both garment designers to show us how a garment designer/pattern maker measures a pair of jeans and a shirt.

I did this, as the measurements on The IHJP site and the IHUK site are different and we wanted to understand why.

They showed us how every pattern maker (in Japan at least) does it.  There were some notable variations with how we do it, and for that matter, the majority of online stores that I know, do it.

It is clear that the way they do it is more accurate than the way we had been doing it.

Beatle took photos of Tom doing the measuring.  At some point soon we will update the website with an updated "how we measure" section and I will update all the measurements on the individual product pages.

This is no small undertaking, but it will result in more accurate info…

[injunjack]

Lot of old info will be valueless….on many topics. Let's hope it won't create huge misunderstandings in newbies who read old posts and try to figure out their sizing based on that and new forcoming info on the website.

Or are the differences minimal? which would be a good thing.