Samples - New Products We Are Working On
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Not saying that all of these will make it to production, but some of the things @Alex and I discussed with Haraki when we were in Japan last week.
Asym leather jacket
All sorts of new leathers for leather jackets
Black leather Type III vest
Easy shorts
Easy shorts in 14oz denim
Easy pants
Sweat pants
New colours in plain chambrays
Really cool indigo/indigo double-faced shirting
New colours for Cordovan wallets
Glasses casesThat's just off the top of my head, sure there was a LOT more…..
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Hahahahahahaha
So, we are on a mission to fill the production capacity of Mr Heavy Flannels workshop. He makes most if not all of our 12oz and under shirts.
We've wanted to increase the number of chambray offerings we do for years and it turns out that a fabric with no pattern and under 10oz is relatively easy for Mr Heavy Flannel to put through the workshop. Funnily enough, a couple of days before we were with Mr Heavy Flannel, we were at a textile distributor and had picked out some chambray we liked…..
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Hahahahahahaha
So, we are on a mission to fill the production capacity of Mr Heavy Flannels workshop. He makes most if not all of our 12oz and under shirts.
We've wanted to increase the number of chambray offerings we do for years and it turns out that a fabric with no pattern and under 10oz is relatively easy for Mr Heavy Flannel to put through the workshop. Funnily enough, a couple of days before we were with Mr Heavy Flannel, we were at a textile distributor and had picked out some chambray we liked…..
Pure music to my ears…guess the Covid disruptions have lined things up nicely for all things chambray!!!
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Khaki chambray ihsh-315 is my favourite shirt, would love more colours, especially earth tones. It's the perfect shirt fabric.
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Any updates on the new Superblack Selvedge?
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The samples are made, but we can't put them into production yet due to our jeans production issues
Well, that’s progress since the last time I asked, so that’s good news. What jeans production issues? I must have missed something.
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During the lockdown in Japan virtually all foreign workers went home and were not allowed back in. So mills and factories have been running at approx 60% capacity for a couple of years.
Japan is opening up again now, so things will get better.
How we fix this as a company was one of the major talking points when @alex and I were in Japan a couple of weeks ago.
One of the factories that makes a lot of of our stuff was remarkable. They have built a lot of housing onsite for the foreign staff, they have individual kitchens in each apartment and a massive communal kitchen. They also have a massive vegetable garden so produce can be grown on site. Alex and I were totally blown away with the care that the owner of the factory and his wife took of their "family"….
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Build a mill in Gosport?
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Honestly, it was amazing. He showed us the housing and the communal areas after I had asked him if he was having trouble getting foreign staff to return. His answer, was basically, "no, we treat them so well, they are queuing up to come and work for us, come and take a look…....."
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Amazing stuff.
I wonder what a chambray with two different colors (meaning no white warp or weft) would look like? Like an IB chambray, perhaps mock twisted…
