2016 - Spring/Summer Pipeline

[Max Power]

True. The sleeves on the 16SS were pretty Long and wide, making your arms look rather skinny.

[Seul]

Exactly. Pet peeve w/ s/s shirts.

[tmg]

I'd rather have looser sleeves than too tight, but that's clearly very subjective and based on each individual's body shape - either way, it's a cracking looking shirt and I hope the final version works for all of us [emoji3]

[Dion]

A great looking shirt, length of sleeves seems OK.

[browniemcghee]

Gotta chime in on sleeves here. I agree that many IH short sleeved shirts have disproportionately large sleeves.  I have fairly muscular arms, and feel that the sleeves still look silly loose.  More an issue of width than length.

[Seul]

@browniemcghee:

I have fairly muscular arms, and feel that the sleeves still look silly loose.

Yep. Most important thing for me when it comes to a s/s shirt. But I bet it'll be perfect after said intended tweaking… 

[Giles]

@Max:

Great shirt! What can ou tell us about the fabric - doesn't look like 10 oz, rather like the TW chambray?

As I said, it is a deadstock selvedge chambray that H found.  It is def not 10oz, perhaps about 6 or 7oz

[riffblaster general]

I really can't contain my excitement for this

[Finkster]

+1
… but the long waiting time sucks 

[Giles]

And in "Any other news", I was blown away yesterday.

H showed me a new denim he is working on with (perhaps) his favourite house mill.  This utilises a weft made from the same pulp as paper money.  The weft is amazingly strong and very thin, this results in a very dark face and a denim that is really thin for it's weight…..

Look at the colour of the face, virtually no weft showing...

And the thinness of the weft:

Compared with comparative cotton weft…(OK, crap focus, but you get the idea)

Edit.  We know of no one else doing this in Japan

[4c]

???

Edit: Cool. Money = 75% cotton and 25% linen. Sounds like a winner G$.

[babyknight]

Fantastic stuff G.  It's innovations like these with the denim that keeps IH so fresh.

[Anesthetist]

@babyknight:

Fantastic stuff G.  It's innovations like these with the denim that keeps IH so fresh.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Chris]

@Giles:

H showed me a new denim he is working on with (perhaps) his favourite house mill.  This utilises a weft made from the same pulp as paper money.  The weft is amazingly strong and very thin, this results in a very dark face and a denim that is really thin for it's weight…..

What weight denim is he thinking of making?

Loving the potential on this one, btw.

[Giles]

We'll use the warp from the 18oz and the new weft.  So we reckon it'll weigh in at not too different from 18, but feel more like 15 - 16

[Chris]

That sounds fantastic.  That 15-19 oz range is, for me at least, the perfect weight for denim.  And the darker, the better.

[Max Power]

Sounds interesting! This in the 633 cut would be a certain purchase for me. Other cuts: maybe as well.

[Chris]

Well, we probably shouldn't get ahead of ourselves; it's a long road between test batches of fabric and full production.   That said, I believe the 633 is a Self Edge exclusive model, so I'd rather see this in a more broadly available fit, like the 634 or the 666.

[JCMx800]

The new denim looks fantastic!!! Would love the classic 634 cut

[Finkster]

^seconded