This is a pre-order item.
Expected Delivery: mid April ~ end of May
We made Tabby's Coat almost 5 years ago and I haven't been able to find a vintage shop coat as good but finally I was lucky enough to grab a vintage 30's Carhartt Traveller Coat. I've seen several coats of the same era but this one has some classy details from the tailored clothing culture with a few unique details.
It has the tailored collar as well as the bottom pockets have the side pockets included within. On our reproduction this time, we've adopted some more unique vintage designs added to it such as the dual pocket of Uncle Sam, the chainstitch seams on the shoulders like on vintage denim jackets, and the heart-shaped buttons from the 20's Carhartt.
In the Japanese denim market, there are not many denim coats available so that's maybe why our Tabby's Coat has been pretty popular. I think there are many of you who already have too many denim jackets and every time you get a new one, your partner gets upset saying, Another similar denim stuff? I guess this new denim coat can be your new work time buddy that you can share with your partner!
When it comes to vintage fabric, you maybe come up with unsanforized denim, in other words, shrink-to-fit denim but the sanforizing process itself was already there in the 30's and on vintage chore coats or shop coats, you often see some tags saying it's sanforized. As long as I do this job, I see various different fabrics every day and I have to say I personally prefer the fade of unsanforized denim. So even though the original vintage coat was made of sanforized fabric, we have adopted unsanforized raw denim for our new denim coat this time.
The warp is yarn count 10 and the weft is yarn count 12, making it 9oz fabric.
It's also woven in 2-by-1 construction so at first the fabric might look boring but you can expect some wild change on this fabric in the end. Because it's made of unsanforized fabric, the coat is a bit tweaked to the right as the jeans legs do.
I love many details of vintage work wears but if I had to choose my favorite I would say the asymmetry pocket design on jackets/shirts is definitely one of them. Maybe you might have noticed my preference if you have known TCB for some time.
After the 40s, the asymmetry pocket design started to disappear because it's just easier and more efficient to use the same pocket for the left and right, you know. We've referred to the pocket design of Uncle Sam on this new coat. The look is simple but it has the dual pocket. Not sure why people back then wanted to have this kind of dual pocket but it's said that one of the reason why is to keep cigarettes away from sweat. The previous TCB coat, Tabby's Coat, had the swinging pocket of Big Yank and that's designed so for the same reason. We rarely make any shirts but if I look at the details of vintage shirts there are plenty of interesting designs.
TCB basically tries to do a faithful reproduction on vintage clothings but this time we have mixed what we like into a denim coat. Hope you'll like it too!
