Ship John
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Since I accidentaly got a Ship John Wills jacket V2 I join this threat. We visited another forum member and his wife this weekend, when we where in Den Haag and Rotterdam and while I got a tour through the IH closet he wanted me to try on this Wills V2 jacket, because, sadly, it is to big for him.
The jacket is a 2XL and it fits quite nice. The backview looks a bit roomy, but I guess that is the cut. My wife liked it and the price was basically a present. The only donwside is, that I am facing temperatures well above 20° C the next few month, so that it will not get to much wear in the forseeable future.
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@Cole Sweet! Looks great
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@dirtyframer thanks, I clicked and just purchased my first SJ thingee! Was expecting it to say “out of stock when I pushed “buy it now”.
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@Chibs glad you got one in time!
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Yeah I was gonna say these went live again….. kinda wanna buy another one but I currently have my 437 filling a God sized hole in my heart
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Just got mine as well. XL. Had to give it a good warm wash. Fits much better but I'm also wondering if I should get it hemmed in length a bit.
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Missed the shirt again. Checked their page like three times a day for the last weeks and now they went life when I am asleep
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@Chibs Pretty sure that's how Mike explained it in one of his lives awhile back before one of the original drops. It's why it was one of the harder fabrics for him to get in large quantities and why it tends to be more expensive.
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@rahrah12 So cool!!!!!
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Sashiko w the SJ Wesco’s
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@Chibs @rahrah12 Sashiko-ori fabric is also made on a loom. It is just done in a manner to replicate the hand-stitched look from a traditional Sashiko weave. Ship John uses the term Sashiko-ori, which appears to be technically correct. Whereas other clothing manufacturers who use Sashiko-ori fabrics just call it by the short hand “Sashiko”
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@MrJay Got it, that makes a bit more sense cost wise. So this stuff is basically Dobby cloth?
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@Chibs I believe that’s right. My understanding (although others should correct me if I’m mistaken) is that Sashiko-ori is just a specific kind of fabric/pattern of weave woven on a dobby loom. So whereas all Sashiko-ori fabrics are also technically dobby fabrics, not all dobby fabrics are Sashiko-ori
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@Chibs Haha oh no! Looking back, my response could have been clearer. I just meant that Sashiko-ori is just a particular kind of pattern woven on a dobby loom
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@MrJay Thank you. It would be interesting to compare this with Iron Heart's Dobby and I know they've made Sashiko in the past too. Curious if there's a discernable difference.
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@Chibs To me the material used for the IHV-50-IND and the material used for Ship John's Sashiko-ori are almost indiscernible. I will try and take a picture of them together today.
