Japan Trip - November 2010

[cowsareforeating]

OMGOMGOGMOGMOGMG my pretty flannel thx G!

[ALEX1976]

The videos and pics are awesome!!!great geat great:-)

[tvshooter]

i'm eatin all this up!  wish i could bring my XDHDcam over there and shoot a vid for ya'll!

btw, who's that guy in the pic wearing the hickory hat?  he looks familiar.

[Beatle]

@tvshooter:

i'm eatin all this up!  wish i could bring my XDHDcam over there and shoot a vid for ya'll!

btw, who's that guy in the pic wearing the hickory hat?  he looks familiar.

You and me, both…

btw - that's Roger from VMC Zurich

[Giles]

Beats at 80?

[Giles]

Folks, burning the candle at both ends does not even start toi describe this gig.  Will try and get a few images up here before we shoot off to meet up with Rin Tanaka in 20 mins….......

[Jpo1932]

@Giles:

Folks, burning the candle at both ends does not even start toi describe this gig.  Will try and get a few images up here before we shoot off to meet up with Rin Tanaka in 20 mins….......

Some people have the greatest jobs..

[Giles]

So yesterday we went to 3 factories:  Washing/Dyeing/Finsing plant (this is where we get the overdying done), the shirt making factory and the jeans/jackets/heavy shirts making factory.

This is a laser etcher, etching the design for one of our flashers directly onto the the denim. Scary stuff:

[Giles]

Those are all Beatle Busters…..........................

[Giles]

Want your jeans pre-distressed?  Well I know you don't, or else you would not be on this forum, but I tell you, what they do and how they do it is amazing.  This is the "hi-tech" fraying machine:

[Giles]

Lets fade some now.  I tell you, it was vaguely obscene seeing these nice new jeans hitting the factory and being systematically fucked with:

[Giles]

These are the blanket lined work jackets coming out of the rinser.  They are rinsed, just to get excess starch out of them and to take all the shrinkeage out of the denim.  Avaialable on a website very near you soon:

[Giles]

Roger, for Christs sake, I said warm wash 

[ALEX1976]

@Giles:

Want your jeans pre-distressed?  Well I know you don't, or else you would not be on this forum, but I tell you, what they do and how they do it is amazing.  This is the "hi-tech" fraying machine:

THIS IS HIGHTECH???
THIS A DREMEL!
IS THAT PRPS DENIM???

[Simon]

A plethora of great updates to digest with my morning coffee, thanks G. 

Where do I start …. BB's thats on hell of a big pile of jeans!!  Laser etching, Blanket lined work jackets, children's jeans (breath, drink coffee).......... and what jeans are they torturing there not IH are they  :o

[ALEX1976]

prps

[dizco]

@Giles:

Roger, for Christs sake, I said warm wash 

10 years from now, my kids will get at least one of em

[Beatle]

holy shit..keeps getting better and better..

Giles , right on - me at 80 needs a proper cigar and a glass of Whiskey..

and shit - finally - kids jawns !!!!!!  Or not ? and that laser thing is spooky…

[Seul]

If those are kids' jawns, then I wanna have some offspring of my own… Anyone wanna help me with that?.. 

[Beatle]

Haraki-san takin' a break…you guys wore him out..