LOT 512 TYPE 2

512
Japan Okayama JAPANBLUE specially customized 1950s style pink ear edge denim fabric
Use American cotton
Restore the 512 classic 5-button version
Japanese brand KING special denim sewing thread
Customized GIZEMO copper bottom buckle hardware

The Type II denim jacket began in 1953 (1953-1962). 1953 belongs to the post-Russian period. As an improved version of TYPEI, the batch number is S0TXX. Compared with the first and third generation jackets, it only existed for 10 years but has become a highly sought after one. Style, Elvis Presley, Kimura Takuya have all worn upper body appearance, the difference from TYPEI is probably as follows:
1. The chest pocket becomes two symmetrical ones
2. The rivet reinforcement in the pocket becomes a date fixation
3. The Paris buckle on the back is canceled and replaced with adjustable buttons on both sides of the waist.

What are the advantages of denim fabrics produced in Japan?
Japan insists on using old-fashioned looms to work. The texture produced by old-fashioned looms is unmatched by modern machines. The insistence on using old-fashioned machines is a tribute to the ancient cultural product of cowboys. Now the new looms use not shuttles, but They use wind pressure or water pressure to feed the weft yarn. They cannot use thick yarns. The high-speed loom pulls the warp yarn very hard, so the denim fabric produced is very smooth and flat, and cannot reproduce the individual vitality of the cotton thread itself. Old-fashioned weaving is used. The craftsman can manually control the speed of the machine, so loosely woven cotton can more vividly reflect the personality of the cotton thread itself and the concave and convex feel of the cotton thread.

We customized the denim fabric produced in Okayama, Japan, at JAPANBLUE. It uses American cotton yarn. The textile process is based on the 50s style. The fabric has a strong texture, 14.5oz gold thickness, and specially customized pink ears.
  Shanzhong Textile is in charge of planning, starting from the selection of cotton. First, I found my ideal among the cotton collected from all over the world, and then started weaving. Through highly computerized textile technology, in order to reproduce the retro expression, the uneven shape of the thread we are pursuing is randomly repeated. It is easy to evenly line the production line. On the other hand, it is difficult to maintain high quality while naturally expressing unevenness in order to make the thickness of the line strong and weak, close to vintage, as we are pursuing. The values called irregular threads are only required for jeans.

Using the old-fashioned loom TOYOTA GL-9, a total of 9 G-type automatic looms "GL-9" (produced in 1980) produced by Toyota Automatic Loom were launched at the old logistics warehouse site opposite the head office. Because it is an old model, there are no new replacement parts, so there are also 2-in-1 discarded looms as parts. This is a loom that often requires maintenance by skilled craftsmen. The old force loom is indispensable on the basis of expressing the retro style. It means that the shuttle wrapped with weft threads goes back and forth from both ends of the fabric like sewing warp threads, making it Compared with the current mainstream innovative looms, the production efficiency of looms with serviches (lugs) that prevent the fabric from being tangled at both ends is less than 3/1. Because the innovative loom is a high-speed rotating loom, it requires strong thread tension. Although the surface of the woven fabric is uniform and beautiful, it is difficult to express the personality of the fabric with a flat expression. On the other hand, old-fashioned force looms can be fine-tuned by the techniques of skilled craftsmen such as the method of tensioning the warp tension and the speed of weaving. Based on this, the original texture of the thread, the uneven feel, and the uneven weave create various personalities in the texture (top). The old power looms were not machines that could be controlled by a single button, but were the tools of a skilled craftsman.