Tender Co. Denim

[stallwart]

Has the trestle shop got planned any Rough side Logwood dyed wallets? 

cheers

 

A

[cool_hand]

my unworn red ticking tail shirt is up for sale:

http://supertalk.superfuture.com/index.php/topic/154133-fs-tender-ticking-tail-shirt-size-4-large/

please pm me.

[rodeo bill]

Has the trestle shop got planned any Rough side Logwood dyed wallets? 

cheers

 

A

Sounds interesting! I have a bit of logwood left, so let's see…. thanks for the suggestion 

[rodeo bill]

Has the trestle shop got planned any Rough side Logwood dyed wallets? 

cheers

 

A

So, your wish is my command. Today I pulled these out of stock:

 

and put them in to soak in a pot of mordant, which prepares the leather to take the dye:

 

 

 

now it's time for them to go into the logwood, also known as blood wood. Here's why!:

 

 

the mordanted leather goes into the logwood dye:

 

 

After a couple of hours submerged, I've drained them out and they're now sitting to dry very slowly, over the next couple of days, in a cool room, so that the leather doesn't crack:

 

Once they've thoroughly dried out, I'll have to re-grease the leather, with boot grease, to get it back up to its previous, supple, state. Photos of that and the finished articles in real time, when they're done!

 

[st199ml]

Hickoree's have the Sleeper shirts for a touch over 100 dollars each, shipped to UK. It's not right, they're lovely. Buy 'em here: http://www.hickorees.com/brand/sleeper.

[stallwart]

Hi William

may be interested in one or two of them! 

sorry about your hands!

Thanks for the pics too

 

A

[rodeo bill]

Thanks Stallwart! I'll let you know before they go up on the site, for sure 

[DhaDha]

I only have one Tender stuff, being in Thailand it's so hard to get hold of them, but the one thing I do possess i do treasure dearly. 

tender belt. probably my favourite belt i have. unique buckle and wonderful leather. here's after 2-3 months of wear (initial coat of mink oil. urge, this was before i knew not to use mink oil.) age to a very beautiful ember brown. 

 

 

 

beautiful texture and colour. can't wait to see how it ages further. 

Too bad I didn't know about Tender when I studied in the UK. next time i visit there again i'll make sure to cop as much stuff as possible. 

[rodeo bill]

^thanks DhaDha- missing photos, I hope you can reupload them

 

I'm just starting to send out boxes of the new production to shops, so a lot more in the next few weeks. As a quick first preview of a new product, here are the trousers I've been wearing a lot lately:

 

english custom-woven ecru cotton calico, cut with no side seam, a cross-over fly, and nice firm elastic at the waistband. There's a patch pocket on the back, and they're really comfy! When it gets warmer I think they'll be ok to go outside in, and in the meantime I've worn them under jeans a couple of times, too. They'll be in a few colours, of which more soon!

[stallwart]

nice avatar! and thank you, your wallet looks lovely 

 

 

Let us know how you get on!

 

 

well it hasn’t done any harm (bee natural.)

 

 it finishes like a varnish with a shine. Its supposed to be all natural. Interesting to try it anyhow. 

 

 

 

ps

was hoping some Rough Sides would show up, just not so quickly!

 

[rodeo bill]

^ looks really fantastic! Thank you. the rough-outs are looking great- still a little damp. I'm hoping I can get to greasing them tomorrow.

[jason995511]

Where will the pants be available? They look really great! I love my Wattle jeans.

[rodeo bill]

^thank you! wearing them now 

they sold to quite a few stores, so should start popping up online quite a bit over the next few weeks. If you need a specific stockist near where you live feel free to email me. Delighted you're enjoying your jeans!

[jason995511]

I'll keep my eyes peeled because I know they can go fast. can't wait! thanks

[rodeo bill]

thank you Jason! I'm tracking UPS parcels to the US, and I can see that Hickoree's have just received their first delivery (including these pants) and Unionmade's will arrive on Monday. You could contact either of these- I'm sure they'd be happy to help. More shops will be getting their deliveries in shortly 

[clawbytes]

Holy sweet pants! Specs please!

[jason995511]

Hey William, Thanks, I'll check with both of them.
Here's a few photos of the Wattle jeans

 

 

Obviously the photos didn't show up, any helpful hints on getting photos on here?

Edited February 1, 2014 by jason995511

[rodeo bill]

^^thanks claw bytes  I'll get more details up asap- hopefully during this week

 

^ It'll be great to see them Jason! there's a guide to posting photos here. I use flickr- you upload your image into flickr, then you can copy that image (right click on the image, not an image preview, and hit 'copy image') then click the image button in the superfuture reply box (looks like a polaroid photo) and paste in the image from flickr. 

[jason995511]

thanks, hopefully this works.

 

Edited February 1, 2014 by jason995511

[rodeo bill]

nice! thank you, they look terrific   this is actually the first pair of these I've ever seen being worn by someone else, so I'm particularly grateful for the photo.

[rodeo bill]

Holy sweet pants! Specs please!

Here are a few quick photos   (sorry for the crappy lighting, it's late….)

The elastic is quite firm, which means that when they're not worn the waist looks very small, but the pair I have is a size 4, and stretched out it measures 40" (comfortably stretched out it's about 35"). I wear size 5 jeans, and this size 4 pair of pyjamas is comfy, although I think a 5 would have been better.

 

The buttons are aluminium, covered in white linen. These are also on the new styles of shirt, and are nice because the dye really well, to match the rest of the garment:

 

There are two buttons at the front, either side of a wide cross-over fly. The cross-over's wide and short enough that you could wear them out with boxer shorts underneath and not worry about them gaping:

 

There's a size label and removable care label on the outside of the centre of the back. There's a single patch pocket on the right hip:

 

The fabric is custom woven in England, and after rinsing or dyeing it shrinks to form a really nice cross-hatched texture:

 

The inside leg seam is twin-needle feed sewn:

 

As I think I mentioned above, it's been pretty cold in the UK for the last few weeks, so I've been wearing these out over a pair of boxers, but under my jeans, outside, and then inside just as lightweight pants. 

[clawbytes]

Thanks for the info, can you post some pictures of the matching shirt too?

 

I'll be picking those up within the next 2 weeks!

[jason995511]

These pants look great, can't wait to see the spring/summer line.

I can't believe you don't see more of the wattle jeans out. I love mine. I also really like the wattle 420 shirt. I think at this point I'd buy anything wattled

I'll try to get some photos of the other tender items I have.

[jason995511]

Some other Tender favorites,

Short Sleeve Tail Shirt Blue Woad Cambric

TYPE 129 WATTLE BEAVERTEEN JEANS

TYPE 900 UNBORN DENIM JACKET

 

[Youthxattak]

Oh man. Great outfit! ^^^

I dream of owning one of those unborn jackets. In Florida the heat was already in the 80s today. I think I wore my sweater only a couple days this year and now I'm already back to tees for the year.

More pics of the 900 though! It looks like its really great blue on the inside.. Did you dye it yourself? Or is that just from contact/washes?

[jason995511]

No dyes, or washes yet. I just got it a few weeks ago and it's actually been the opposite weather and too cold to wear it out. I'll try to get some better shots of it and get them up here soon. Thanks for the comment.

[rodeo bill]

Great outfit Jason995511, thank you for posting it! I'm really flattered and happy that you're enjoying your clothes.

 

Here's what I was doing yesterday afternoon….: packing up woad pyjama pants 

 

the stack of white things on the right is half-made shirts. When they're ready I'll take some photos

[jason995511]

Hey William, thanks for the compliment.

Since I'm still new to Tender, how does releasing the new line work? Do you do it little by little or is it one big release?

Also when do you typically release the photo shoot of the new line?

Everything you've shown so far looks really great, can't wait to see the rest.

[rodeo bill]

^thanks very much for this. New products get delivered to shops over a few weeks, once a season (twice a year)- some shops prefer one full delivery and some prefer to get each new item as it's ready. I sent off the first boxes of the first deliveries at the end of last week, and everything will be dispatched around the end of this month, so should all be available by early March. That said, special orders and collaborations or restocks turn up throughout the season too, so it's a bit difficult to give you a straight answer!

 

I think there'll be an introduction to the new production tomorrow or the next day on Lineage of Influence, so I'll leave it to Rob to give the first view, but I'll post some more images up here right after.

 

Once they've thoroughly dried out, I'll have to re-grease the leather, with boot grease, to get it back up to its previous, supple, state. Photos of that and the finished articles in real time, when they're done!

 

 

As promised, here's the follow-up:

 

The leather took a couple of days to fully dry out, ending up very crisp and hard (and brittle). This morning I gave everything a first coating of boot grease:

 

 

 

 

by the afternoon, with a lot more rubbing in by hand, the leather was back to being lovely and supple, and the grease had mostly soaked in:

 

I've given them a second deep coating, and polished them up, and they're now on the trestle shop:

 

[Vanquish Gold]

Great job! Will the tan leather beneath show through the back dye after some time? Or has the black dye penetrated deep enough so that it will remain black (or at most greyish) throughout its lifetime?