2016 - Spring/Summer Pipeline

[Giles]

First up….

As originally suggested by @riffblaster general USN inspired chambray short sleeve.  We won't get this into production in time for summer 2015 I am afraid, so we're looking at a March 2016 release.  H has found sone really lovely deadstock chambray for this (and a few other things up our sleeves - pun intended).  We will shorten the sleeve length by 1" and the circumference of the sleeve opening by 1" for production…

[riffblaster general]

I LOVE IT.

I don't mind those sleeves at all btw.  They look fairly practical to be active in.

[Max Power]

Great shirt! What can ou tell us about the fabric - doesn't look like 10 oz, rather like the TW chambray?

[tmg]

That looks perfect, and sleeves look ok as is

[Seul]

Nope - those sleeves have to be shorter and narrower. Glad you're taking care of that.

[Max Power]

True. The sleeves on the 16SS were pretty Long and wide, making your arms look rather skinny.

[Seul]

Exactly. Pet peeve w/ s/s shirts.

[tmg]

I'd rather have looser sleeves than too tight, but that's clearly very subjective and based on each individual's body shape - either way, it's a cracking looking shirt and I hope the final version works for all of us [emoji3]

[Dion]

A great looking shirt, length of sleeves seems OK.

[browniemcghee]

Gotta chime in on sleeves here. I agree that many IH short sleeved shirts have disproportionately large sleeves.  I have fairly muscular arms, and feel that the sleeves still look silly loose.  More an issue of width than length.

[Seul]

@browniemcghee:

I have fairly muscular arms, and feel that the sleeves still look silly loose.

Yep. Most important thing for me when it comes to a s/s shirt. But I bet it'll be perfect after said intended tweaking… 

[Giles]

@Max:

Great shirt! What can ou tell us about the fabric - doesn't look like 10 oz, rather like the TW chambray?

As I said, it is a deadstock selvedge chambray that H found.  It is def not 10oz, perhaps about 6 or 7oz

[riffblaster general]

I really can't contain my excitement for this

[Finkster]

+1
… but the long waiting time sucks 

[Giles]

And in "Any other news", I was blown away yesterday.

H showed me a new denim he is working on with (perhaps) his favourite house mill.  This utilises a weft made from the same pulp as paper money.  The weft is amazingly strong and very thin, this results in a very dark face and a denim that is really thin for it's weight…..

Look at the colour of the face, virtually no weft showing...

And the thinness of the weft:

Compared with comparative cotton weft…(OK, crap focus, but you get the idea)

Edit.  We know of no one else doing this in Japan

[4c]

???

Edit: Cool. Money = 75% cotton and 25% linen. Sounds like a winner G$.

[babyknight]

Fantastic stuff G.  It's innovations like these with the denim that keeps IH so fresh.

[Anesthetist]

@babyknight:

Fantastic stuff G.  It's innovations like these with the denim that keeps IH so fresh.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Chris]

@Giles:

H showed me a new denim he is working on with (perhaps) his favourite house mill.  This utilises a weft made from the same pulp as paper money.  The weft is amazingly strong and very thin, this results in a very dark face and a denim that is really thin for it's weight…..

What weight denim is he thinking of making?

Loving the potential on this one, btw.

[Giles]

We'll use the warp from the 18oz and the new weft.  So we reckon it'll weigh in at not too different from 18, but feel more like 15 - 16