vintage work wear

[fardin]

hey guys i found this great site on the net from japan. it has great pics of original work wear although its not for sale its still cool to stop by. and Takashi Tateno who made the site is also very nice and answers questions. so i hope you enjoy it

this is the english site, but is not as big as the japanese site

http://www.e-workers.net/english/

thats the japanese site with more items and pics

http://www.e-workers.net

[Paul T]

Looks cool, thanks for the link, tho i think his server might be overloaded...

[fardin]

Looks cool, thanks for the link, tho i think his server might be overloaded...

you are welcome. by the way i guess to get to the japanese site u will have to delete the english at the end of the first link, cause i am not sure if the second one works right.

best

[beatle]

Nice site

[superBobo]

cool to see that the carhartt double knee duck pant has retained most of its shape and details over the years.

these are super nice aswell. Unfortunatly no current carhartt pants looks like this:

[Charlie Delta]

Has been posted before, but good to remind us.

Curious if this is all his personal collection.

Guy is indeed very nice.

Thanks.

[tweeds]

ducky, got a link to the other post?

[Charlie Delta]

No, I'm not sure if it was in a thread or had a thread of it's own.

Believe I had it bookmarked, but then the crash came...

Sorry

[chucksvintage]

[chucksvintage]

[SeanUCSB]

In honor of "There will be blood"'s 8 oscar nods....here is some early California oil work wear....

[Charlie Delta]

Pics don't show up...?

do now!

[lenn]

great site

lol @

The kid looks like Buddy Lee, and is very cute.

[SeanUCSB]

hmmm.....pics seem to be working for me......but here is the webiste i grabbed them at

http://www.geocities.com/espee9164/oil.industry.html

[denihilist]

Geocities has bandwidth limits. The pictures are showing up because you have them cached.

[familyman]

I'm always impressed with how little cuff wear vintage work pants show. They really did wear them a whole lot shorter than we wear stuff now.

[Sympathy-For-The-Denim]

some nice miners jeans, for a bargain price:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260204246803&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:Watchlink:middle:us

[fardin]

its sold out now

but i wanted to shere this from takeshi san

thats really a very famous 20s and 30s jacket

and he finally made some

i love it and have been looking for it for years now

i had seen that real mccoys back in the old days when the japanese and the new zealand franctions were still together , had one of these too. some originals can be found on e bay

this is the repro from workers net

http://www.e-workers.net/store/16/l1.htm

[fardin]

hey just got my coat fom takashi san.

this thing is amazing. tha material is so thik and the lining is unbelivable. the coat is realy warm. i love it, although i wish i had more room in it, but still. and the details are so nice.

just wanted to share.

here are some pics, the link with more detailed pics is above.

[fre-co]

Man that coat is so nice! I was on the brink of ordering it in November or whenever it was, but i didn't. Now I am very jealous. Please post fit pics.

[fardin]

yes fresco i will as soon as possible, and the thing is realy warm.

i wish takashi would have made them up to size 46.

well.....

thanks anyway

[fre-co]

yes fresco i will as soon as possible, and the thing is realy warm.

i wish takashi would have made them up to size 46.

well.....

thanks anyway

You got a 44 then( i think that would have been my size too), what are the measurements like? Still waiting on fit pics!

[fardin]

no unfortunatly he only makes them up to size 42. so i got a 42, wich is really tight specially around the shoulders and the back. you can see the measurements on his homepage.

i wish he would have made a 44. i asked him if he is ever going to make one again, but he did not answer yet. i am happy takashi made it, cause last year he didnt know yet if he would make any at all.

by the way, i wrote aeroleatherclothing last year, cause i had been looking for a coat like this for a decade now, and they told me that they would make it. so thats a chance too.

they have a shawl collar barnstormer (here is the link http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/17176229) wich is acutually almost the same cut as the workers coat, and they would use the gabardine wich they use for their cloth jackets.

another possibility is real mccoys in new zealand. back in the days when they were still together with the japanese fraction , they made the same jacket, even with the sheep lining! i worte them too last year and they said they might make one for me, cause they still have the pattern. this i think would be the best option. and the more people ask the higher the possibility to get them to do it again.

here are some pics of the new zealand coat.

exept of the zipper wich the orinal coat did not have in the 20s, the coat is killer, dont you think

[fre-co]

Yes very nice indeed! Maybe we should petition RM NZ to reintroduce it.

I remember the measurements on Takashi's website, the 42 measures almost identical to my Barbour cowan commando. That was the size I was going to order. I really don't know what came over me when I decided not to go for it.

Not much chance but, if you ever decide it's too small, I'll be interested in it.

[fardin]

ok fresco, although i dont think i will let it go. youknow the material is very thick and the lining is also heavy. funny how different a blanket lining is , if it is made the real old way, unlike todays blanket linings. my carhartt chore coat size 38 has the same measurements and is roomier. so.

anyway i just wrote real mccoys new zealnd, so we will see. just drop them a mail. i bet they will answer and try aeroleather, they will make you the same jacket even with the option of alpaka lining. i remeber i send them a pic of the jacket i wanted and amanda said it would be no problem to make it with the features i wanted. the prize was something around 300 quid.

[fardin]

interesting link from the fedora lounge

here are scans of the 1938 sears roebuck spring summer catalogue.

the workwear pages are really interesting. thats how people ordere back in the days.

check out the jeans wich are a copy of the 30s levis.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hab3045/2397375656/in/set-72157604410984660/

[fardin]

sorry for occupying this thread but....

hey fresco i have found something interesting in a japanese webshop, its called the wild one, and as it seems cushmans made a coat like that too. maybe you can find it somewhere else cause they are sold out here.

so here is the link

the coats look great

http://www15.plala.or.jp/thewildone/cushman-jacket-Mackinaw.html

[fre-co]

oh thanks man, it seems that was made in 2007

[crownzip]

Here's a couple photos of a cool work jacket. The horsehide is still soft and pliable. The WWII Conmar zip and soccer ball sleeve buttons date it to the early 40's.

[fardin]

great crownzip,beautiful jacket, is it yours? any fit pics?

aeroleather has a similar one, the 1950s half belt.