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Markups and margins are a good reason not to get into wholesale - I often thought the same but as time has gone on I've started to understand their place a bit more.
Statistics: Posted by Bobbin.Threadbare — Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:16 am
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and, should anyone ever decide to give up a garden shirt...
Statistics: Posted by tttigre — Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:36 am
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For the last two years I've been training as a garden designer and I'm now working as a gardener, mum is also a keen gardener so we threw some gardening gear into the mix this year, as well as some smocks inspired by those worn by Hastings fishermen. We've got waterproof breathable fabrics, padded waterproof kneepads (kneepads on the cotton trousers are also waterproof), secateur pockets, adjustable cuffs and, most importantly, waterproof shorts.
Super importantly we've decided to move online only and sell exclusively through our own website. A lot of our pieces are quite complex to make involving a lot of print placement, embroidery and suchlike things which means they are expensive to make and will always be expensive to make. The nature of clothes that we are making also means that we are never going to sell 500 of something because there just isn't that big of a market for secateur pockets with eels on them. Stores want to charge 2.7 markup which means if we make something for £50 and sell it to a store for £100 they will then sell it to you for £270. It sucks because it means every small detail we add results in an ungodly increase in price, by being online only we can do things like have our YKK zips custom made, source vintage buttons and add pockets. At the end of the day we just don't want to make really expensive clothes, that's not fun for us. The end result is that we've actually decreased our prices this season (when was the last time you heard a fashion brand say that)
You can see the lookbook
Statistics: Posted by oucho — Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:10 am
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It's a big hit with my textile student housemates.
Statistics: Posted by DeafIdiotGod — Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:33 am
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Worried an L could be too small. 6'2 180 for reference.
Statistics: Posted by Cowboy — Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:40 pm
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Statistics: Posted by oucho — Thu May 18, 2017 11:21 am
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I don't know where you live or what the climate is like, I have to get up very early in the morning quite often and hang around overground stations in 0 - -5 and they are great for those kind of conditions. They aren't as warm as a thick wool scarf though, which is nice in my opinion as they fill that period in the year where your neck is cold but it's still too warm for a wool scarf, which is almost all of the year in the UK (and they don't itch).
Statistics: Posted by oucho — Sat Jan 28, 2017 2:17 pm
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just kidding! looks great! glad you figured out a way to get it made!
Statistics: Posted by tomsfood — Fri Nov 18, 2016 4:05 pm
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Statistics: Posted by oucho — Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:54 pm
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Our clothes are very complicated to make, they involve working with difficult fabrics like silk and intense print placement. Every panel of fabric for one of our pieces is designed individually and has to be cut and sewn correctly. To put this into context one of our shirts requires about 21 panels of fabric. We trusted the factory who we worked with to make the Notre Jardin collection, they paid their machinists over the London living wage and as a result attracted really excellent workers. However they've changed their focus to sourcing Eastern European factories for British designers, rather than manufacturing themselves. We had a mad dash around various factories, but it started to feel like we were going to have to pay an awful lot with very little guarantee that the clothes would be made right. So we decided to make the collection ourselves, or rather my mum did because I am hopeless at sewing. She learned sewing from her mum and often makes her own clothes. She is not as good as the machinists we worked with before and she even sewed a sleeve on upside down yesterday, but don't worry any small mistakes will be completely outshone by the charm and sincerity of cottage industry!
It also means that we can get all the small details right, the print placement perfect and we don't have to whack up our prices. I don't know how sustainable it is but for now it's really cool!The clothes are a series of prints and pieces that reference stoicism and Kierkegaard's treatise on the lilies and the birds but it's more playful than austere and is supposed to be tongue in cheek rather than moralising. Personally I think the whole thing is quite funny, we kind of wanted to make clothes that no one would be quite sure who they were made for without being too obvious about it. Anyway we have trousers, we redesigned our coat, we made a t-shirt and a tie and we have new fabrics. The pinstripe wool is a heavy superfine wool made in Huddersfield, it's very nice. We have made some shirts out of shantung silk which is a thick slubby silk, it's very nice. We have a digitally printed faux-suede that's like almost waterproof too which we made coats out of.
ANyway you can check out what we've put online so far here: http://t-e-f.co.uk/collections/kierkegaards-wardrobe I hope you guys like it and if you do we always super appreciate people spreading the word!
Statistics: Posted by oucho — Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:05 am
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