Ship John

[northsouthdenimguy]

@Northman

This is my favorite Wesco engineer, and the only one currently in my closet after purging about a dozen pairs.

[Brock]

@dirtyframer that thing is wild!

[roydub87]

FINALLY ACQUIRED!!!! Hell yeah

[mecken88]

@roydub87 nice man! Happy for you score

[Northman]

@roydub87 That is a nice colourway I must say.

[Chibs]

It’s here. Very thic. Similar to Tricotine in the weight and fit but very different texture.

Sashiko is wild!

Hand spun brass buttons are nice.

Definitely longer than I’m used to but I don’t dislike that. Going to wear a bunch before washing. Really cool shacket. Definitely a shacket!

[goosehd]

@Chibs highly recommend shrinking it before a lot of time put in. You are going to get some massive shifts in creases otherwise.

[Chibs]

@goosehd hmm how should I go about that? Hot soak / dryer? I could definitely stand to shrink this a bit.

Shoulders are perfect but sleeves and length could get shorter for sure.

[goosehd]

I had to go online to find this, but my shirt came with this letter:

[Chibs]

@goosehd did you get your Towns from the original batch? On the webpage from this batch it says this:

[goosehd]

@Chibs my shirt was from the first release.

[Chibs]

@goosehd gotcha, not sure what to do now . Initially I was just going to wear the crap out of it and then wash but it doesn’t look like it’ll shrink that much with this batch anyways.

[Chibs]

Fuckit, going to hot wash / dry for science!!!

[dirtyframer]

@Chibs they shrink a decent amount, mine shrunk a little over an inch ptp which made it perfect

[Chibs]

@dirtyframer Thx! That’s a lot! From the first batch or this batch? Did u hot wash and throw in the dryer?

[dirtyframer]

@Chibs this was this new batch, I hot washed, then drier for 10min then let it hang dry.

[Chibs]

@dirtyframer thank you!! Did u wash with spin? Did the length shrink?

[goosehd]

I used option 3 for my shirt…maybe use the same instructions??

[dirtyframer]

@Chibs no spin and the length shrunk a tad, maybe 3/4". I was expecting more.

But man I love this shirt!

[northsouthdenimguy]

@Chibs

I hot washed my black sashiko(no spin)machine dried it for about 20 minutes, then hung it until it was mostly dry before finishing it off in the dryer. Sounds like a lot of work, but it shrunk up just right. Sometimes taking the slow route is better than overshooting and wishing you could get some of that shrinkage back.

If that doesn’t get it to where you want it hot wash it no spin and dry it for 40 minutes on high and it’ll shrink up

Edit: actually don’t listen to what I said at least on the temperature I may have just warm washed it. But like I said, I think depending on how much you want to get out of it it may take you a couple different attempts just to get it right