I had been looking for this salmon pink type 3 jacket for a while and I happened to find one at a vintage clothing store in Japan 2 years ago and almost forgot buying it. As some time passed it's now quite difficult to find one anywhere.
Speaking of the vintage Levis cord fabric, it was one of the most basic cord fabric available for me but it seems not a lot of brands would need it anymore. It was already discontinued when we tried to reproduce it.
Finding it is getting hard and making it is also getting hard then I start to feel that I gotta make them. Maybe that's how denim heads like me act, you know. I thought making the 3rd type might be the best bet but I also wanted to add some TCB tweak a bit to it, ending up making it in the 40's style. This dusty pink might not be for everyone so TCB's prepared some black cord fabric as well for night owls.
we will start taking pre-orders for S40's cords jacket today. I love this pink but I assume the black would be more popular and let's see haha.
□Fabric
The wale width is exactly the same as the vintage fabric and the yarn count for both the warps and the wefts are the same. Speaking of the material, I was tempted to make the fabric made of cotton 100% but the final product is 85% cotton, 15 % polyester as the vintage fabric goes.
□Dyeing
Speaking of the dyeing methods, I was also indecisive about whether I should do sulphur dye or reaction dye.
If it's dyed by sulphur, the fabric would look more worn-out like the vintage fabric only after a few washes, which I do think is cool but it's not the way the original ones used to be dyed. So I ended up going for the reaction dye. It'll take time to get some nice fade on this but in the end you'll get some nice white & pale pink roping on the chainstitch seams.
