Mister Freedom Saigon Cowboy Collection
If you heard anything about Mister Freedom in the past couple months, it likely wasn’t very good. After some backlash over the racist overtones in pieces from Cristophe Loiron’s “Saigon Cowboy”...
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Ideal Cap Co. – Will Arlt’s Search for the Perfect Ballcap
A friend of mine used to say that there are cars that look fast, and there are cars that are fast (my last ride was a ’93 Corolla and it was neither, so I took his word for it). I believe this same...
View Article3sixteen Spring/Summer 15 Lookbook
3sixteen is putting their home turf on display in their Spring/Summer Lookbook for 2015. Shot in Tompkins Square Park, just a few blocks north of their showroom in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the...
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Lady White Co. – LA’s Tube Knit T-Shirt
The white t-shirt was conceived as a piece of underwear by the US Navy during the Spanish American War, but it has since become the most universal menswear staple and one of the best things you can...
View ArticleLeft Field NYC Tube Knit Tees
New York’s Left Field has long been much more than just jeans. They’ve made jackets, shirting, underwear, and for the past several months, tubular knit t-shirts. The majority of today’s mass-produced...
View ArticleRogue Territory Sashiko Western Shirt
Had Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone been designers, this shirt from Rogue Territory would be their collaboration. It’s a western shirt made of an indigo dyed 6 oz. selvedge chambray from Nihon Menpu...
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Workers’s From Cotton to Jeans Part I: Cotton
Japanese denim brands are well-known for their obsessive attention to seemingly inconsequential detail. But the exact process by which this is done often remains somewhat obscure to overseas clientele,...
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Workers’ From Cotton to Jeans Part II: Spinning and Carding
We’ve translated and reformatted Japanese brand Workers’ six part feature on the denim production process From Cotton to Jeans. In Part II, they discuss the spinning and carding stages. Click here to...
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Workers’ From Cotton to Jeans Parts III and IV: Dyeing and Weaving
We’ve translated and reformatted Japanese brand Workers’ six part feature on the denim production process From Cotton to Jeans. In Parts III and IV, they discuss the rope-indigo dyeing and shuttle...
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Workers’ From Cotton to Jeans Parts V and VI: Patterning and Sewing
We’ve translated Japanese brand Workers’ six part feature on the denim production process From Cotton to Jeans. In Parts V and VI, they discuss the pattern creation and sewing stages. Click here to...
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Inside New England Outerwear Co. – Making Maine’s Handsewn Footwear
When you hear outerwear and see footwear, New England Outerwear Co. may sound like a bit of a misnomer. Dan Heselton and Greg Cordeiro began NEO in 2012 primarily producing outerwear (and they still do...
View ArticleKurt’s Amsterdam Indigo and Screen Printed Hemp T-Shirts
In our line of work, we’ve seen practically everything under the sun dipped and dyed in indigo. There have been shoes, boots, beanies, even sofas and clocks so it takes something extra special to catch...
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5 Indonesian Denim Brands You Should Know
Hang around raw denim for long enough and it’s inevitable to hear someone mention Indonesia. The climate–hot and humid on a cold day–juxtaposed against a fiercely passionate denim culture creates some...
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Freenote Cloth Hickory Selvedge Railstripe Shirt
It’s no secret that we’re what you might call indigo-obsessed. Our beloved blue has had a resurgence, a golden age in which it’s appearing everywhere from shirts to sweats to boots. Freenote Cloth not...
View ArticleIntroducing Olé Denim
Say hello to Olé Denim. Based out of Canada and produced in the United States, Olé was formed not too long ago in 2013. But Olé isn’t just some schmuck off the street who thinks he can get in on the...
View ArticleTellason Cramerton Army Cloth Chino
Posted up in North Carolina, just like a certain denim mill we admire, Cramerton Mills has been pumping out the definitive khaki cloth since 1929. The fabric has served America well, clothing soldiers...
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Returning to the Etsy Well – Small Makers Big on Quality
Denim heads are incorrigible consumers. A new pair of jeans is followed by a second pair, which is followed by a new button down. That button down is followed by new shoes, hats, belts, watches, watch...
View ArticleMister Freedom Fall 2015 “The Sportsman” Additions
An ever-growing collection, Mister Freedom‘s “The Sportsman” collection is inspired by California style from the 1940s-1970s and pre-1970s Army/Navy surplus. Most recently, MF introduced a few new...
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Inside Tanner Goods Portland Workshop
Leather and accessories brand Tanner Goods has had to relocate several times since the company’s inception in 2006. As their selection of belts, bags, and wallets grew to fill two retail stores and...
View ArticleThe Hill-Side 2015 Summer Lookbook
Brooklyn’s own The Hill-Side released their 2015 summer lookbook. Shot within just a few blocks of their Williamsburg home base, the book features TH-S’s new tops, sneakers, accessories, and quite a...
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