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Engineered Garments

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Sat Aug 03, 2013 7:48 pm
by ramdomthought
something about sportswear and modern tailoring and eclectic and modern and fun and buzzword and daiki suzuki and post o'alls is similar but shitty and made in america
cool shit how about those prices though
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:05 pm
by bels
Ever since majhax said I should get the khaki iridescent suit and wear it with slouchy white tees and white sneaks every day in summer I've sort of wanted to do that. Get the trousers hemmed up a bit or something. Not going to do it though.
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:18 pm
by ramdomthought
fuck it's been a long time since i've used phpbb so bear with me
so here's some of my favorite shit
ss05

fw05

ss06

fw07


^fuck i love the pockets on that
ss08

early version of the dayton which hasn't been seen in a year or so
fw08 -- probably my favorite season wish i was into it then (though i'd be a lot poorer a lot earlier) incredible knits and really brought the brand forward from just kind of gimmicky fun stuff into this whole new world while still being mostly the same thing





ss09

dem fucking shoes



fuck there's a lot more to go through plus all these random dumb pics i've saved
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:30 pm
by starfox64
the ss05 pic looks like one of your fitpics. in part because of how he is posing.
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:32 pm
by germinal
i was hoping you'd make this thread
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sat Aug 03, 2013 9:49 pm
by can-
where does eg production scheme fit in their brand vision ?
they don't use luxury fabrics and they use a really limited ny based tailor/production scheme. eg will never make a hard shell or whatever, eg basically boils down to the fabrics you can find on 40th st and a sewing machine.
maybe this fits in with their jam as making traditional garms? stuff that coulda been made w the technology of the 60s? just seems limiting. like a master painter who only uses a no2 pencil
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:56 pm
by ramdomthought
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sat Aug 03, 2013 11:10 pm
by can-
I love eg and will continue to shop their gear but the price simply isn't always there. and sometimes it is there. but their production model is definitely worth a look
compare 210$ eg shorts to 130$ burkman joints
compare a 180$ eg ocbd (unwashed and will shrink) made of middling quality fabric to gbv which is washed and of a superior dyed Oxford
they suffer similar problems of scale like visvim. at the same time their blazers are very competitively priced for the same exact reason. just saying they are unique in their manufacturing process and it has ups and downs
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:12 am
by Syeknom
The slouchy workwear suits are the best things
I love engineered garment's designs but also they don't appeal greatly to me personally as clothes
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:26 am
by bels
Syek make a seh thread. He's always going on on his twitter about mad fabrics. Says he has some one man weaving operation on the go or something.
In all honesty I've never touched eg but the price doesn't seem much crazier than a lot of stuff over here. At sort if Italian heritage level.
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sun Aug 04, 2013 6:34 am
by Syeknom
Will do later on, have been planning one for a bit.
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:09 am
by odradek
Re: Engineered Garments

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Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:14 am
by bels
Re: Engineered Garments

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Mon Aug 05, 2013 4:11 pm
by adhi
i remember driving by drinkwater's cambridge 2 months ago and recognizing some eg in the window display. and i thought that was really cool, at that point it was the first time i saw an 'internet fashion' brand in a store irl. fast forward to yesterday and i find out that drinkwater's was like the original american stockists of eg and apparently have really really good buys of it. going to stop by next weekend, maybe talk to the man of the namesake if he's there.
apparently he stocked fw03... and every season since. i was 8 y.o. back then, sheesh.
Re: Engineered Garments

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Tue Aug 06, 2013 2:49 pm
by hunnish
Re: Engineered Garments

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Tue Aug 06, 2013 2:54 pm
by can-
just handled those today, they are even better than they look. nice fabric. super comfy.
i'm definitely going to pick up this season's field parka. can't find any pic of it, but i think it has 28 pockets
Re: Engineered Garments

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Tue Aug 06, 2013 5:19 pm
by germinal
this?

bare pockets
kind of want one of the windowpane ldts
Re: Engineered Garments

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Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:27 pm
by adhi
hunnish those green pants and red coat are nasty. not together though, but still. links?
Re: Engineered Garments

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Mon Aug 12, 2013 2:24 pm
by adhi
so i was at drinkwater's cambridge the other day. i talked with gary drinkwater about his relationship with daiki suzuki (apparently pronounced 'di-E-key') and his business in general.
from what i can remember: when drinkwater was working at louis (super coveted menswear shop in boston) in 1985 he greeted suzuki as he walked in the door. at the time, suzuki was employed as a buyer for nepenthes (back then it was only nepenthes japan) living in boston making huge buys of american heritage clothing like woolrich and carharrt for the stores. so 'from then on it was a close friendship between us two' according to drinkwater. suzuki continued to live in boston for several years before moving out to california, so they lost touch. then come the later 90's, drinkwater is planning on opening his own store and at the same time engineered garments was just getting off the ground. since they were close friends drinkwater wanted to stock EG and he ended up stocking fw03. according to gary, he eg really took off in FW 05 and 06, and the rest is history. so there's some extra background for anyone who's interested.
i should note that drinkwater's has a special side-thing where they will buy an eg piece for you if it's one of the rarer less-bought items, and ship it out to you. drinkwater says he only stocks about 1/20th of the variety of pieces every season, but you can get virtually any piece from the season if you ask him. pm on styleforum or email.
Re: Engineered Garments

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Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:27 pm
by starfox64

i know i made a joke about this before but it is kind of uncanny how similar
ramdom's fitpic poses are to stock e.g. pics.
Re: Engineered Garments

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Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:12 pm
by ramdomthought
hey i just do left hand in pocket right hand out every pic -_-
Re: Engineered Garments

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Tue Aug 20, 2013 1:24 pm
by Syeknom

Really like that jacket, is it a design they release often or a one-off style?
Re: Engineered Garments

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Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:13 am
by can-
don't think there is a porter jacket this season but there's no shortage of similar items.
i find myself thinking about a navy melton or serge bedford quite often these days.

Re: Engineered Garments

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Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:31 pm
by bels

EG x Vans. Mismatched shoes? Idk bros Idk.
Re: Engineered Garments

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Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:51 pm
by Syeknom
The slubby ones are nice but I'm not feeling them as a pair
Starting to find all of these vans/converse/whatever collabs a bit tiring, but they seemed so exciting when i first started liking clothes
Re: Engineered Garments

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Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:40 pm
by can-
i like that vans agreed to such a goofy collab.
quality looks nice, wouldn't wear tho
Re: Engineered Garments

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Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:41 am
by can-

finally found a stock photo for this season's field parka

Re: Engineered Garments

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Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:48 am
by germinal
Re: Engineered Garments

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Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:29 pm
by odradek
ramdomthought you need to buy these
Re: Engineered Garments

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Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:58 pm
by starfox64
all five of them