French Workwear

[germinal]

I don't know anything about French workwear but maybe someone here does

[can-]

tintin is french workwear



the unlined blue chore coat is the definitive fww garment



brands include bleu de paname, french works, old town, arpenteur, some cabourn and some mister freedom amongst others.

[Morlin]

BLURHMS is the fww of today

[Lorcan]

This tumblr is good for french workwear flintstone (he also has an online shop)

Blue french work jackets are the classic, but I like the black ones too (black was worn by agricultural workers, blue by factory workers).



I also have a soft spot for vintage French fireman's uniforms (c. 1880s-1920s). They look a bit like military uniform but in indigo linen fabric.



There's a current season Dries jacket somewhat inspired by them (whole of Dries AW15 has some fireman's uniform influences with the buckled coats). Also the Visvim lugli which goes as far as to copy the collar embroidery. Actually a lot of recent Visvim pieces are French work wear inspired (travaill, bucky, lugli, pastoral pants, seabee, etc.)

[germinal]

[teck]

the dsm in nyc had a french workwear section with some deadstock workwear jackets, some armour lux shirts and a bunch of gardening equipment. did that happen in the london one too?

[trasparenti]

Cool thread. There's a huge vintage/repro scene in Japan, obviously, and a bunch of the vintage stores have a kind of coalition called F Street:
http://nagoya.f-street.org/
they all have physical locations and a bunch have blogs/webstores. The selections are all really well curated vintage clothes from the USA/Europe and there's a bunch of French/European workwear including these amazing heavy linen pants from the early 20th century (can be yours for only $100!). Random French pieces from Poem (http://thepoem.exblog.jp/):


Vintage wool military pants


1970s coat


deadstock wrkwr set


big cord work pants


pullover shirt


moleskine overalls

Each store has a p comprehensive selection and there are a ton of these stores, but unlike American vintage/thrift stores nearly everything's fairly expensive. I guess it's cuz there's a lot more work put into sourcing clothes and each piece is in good shape. Still, if you like the workwear look there's a ton of variety to be had. Plus you can get some decent basics for cheap (henleys, sweaters, etc.). Arpenteur, Le Labourer, and other name brands aren't as easy to find but I've seen some deals at unrelated secondhand stores

[blanket]

i reckon the cheapest place to get french workwear is etsy. some stores that generally have good prices:

la samoy
$72.47



beta menswear
$38.00




les chiffonniers (i got a st james shirt from them once :-)
$86.00



and more!



more to come!!

[sknss]

some cheap stuff here http://www.monbleudechine.fr/shop/

[bels]

Cash in The Attic also has very great deals on this kind of thing. Just type "FRENCH WORKWEAR" in on the bar.

Obviously if you're core you'll type in "SWEDISH WORKWEAR"

Love the blue that gets used for all this stuff. Looks like it would go really well with white trainers/t shirts

[rublev]

rohmer workwear

[fun_yunchables]

cool shop in la does all kinds of "imagined" vintage, one collection which was french workwear inspired





can browse the collection here
http://www.misterfreedom.com/les-apaches.html

[trasparenti]

wasn't my intention to take the focus away from the thread, my bad

I quite like Danton, all the stuff I've handled is real sturdy and cut generously. made in France too


http://image.rakuten.co.jp/fines/cabine ... ex=128x128


Le Glazik also pretty cool


Also: Brut Clothing has a ton of vintage French workers clothes last time I checked
http://brut-clothing.com/vintage-clothi ... age-jacket

[oucho]

Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh not only has some great French workwear outfits but also illustrates the correct way to live the French workwear life, either as a drunk villager, or as a drunk artist.

[bels]

Let it be known that Swedish Workwear actually looks better if you aren't a literal male model.

[bels]

The latest fire alphets from the HIGHLY elite quickstrike tier0 swedish workwear retailer known as No-Step






IF YOU KNOW WHAT THESE ARE YOU KNOW HOW TO FIND THEM. IF YOU DON'T KNOW BY NOW YOU NEVER WILL.

(I have spoken to the no-cop authority and they've stated it's OK to buy 6.99 swedish workwear wool trousers. Just to see.)

[bels]

I will report back. I guess they're itchy as hell and smell weird but I can only imagine how good the pooling potential of swedish workwear trews is...

looks like they might be unhemmed though which could be annoying..

[oucho]

I bought a pair an hour ago, I just wish they were charcoal grey or something, all my swedish workwear is weird colours

[bels]

It all works well together gaucho don't.... worry about it.

[bels]

Where that review @ my fellow teen.

[oucho]

To my surprise and chagrin the trousers are hemmed and fit cropped on me. The inseam on mine is 75cm, I bought size 32 I think and they are quite tight on my waist, I'm normally size 31.


I think they would look better longer, there is 2-3cm that can be let out but I don't think that's going to be enough so I will probably leave them. The pocket bags are quite stained and it smelt very musty when I got it, I gave it a hand wash to help get rid of the smell but the stains stayed, at least I know it's clean now. The wool is scratchy but perfectly fine to wear, they are warm I guess but my legs never get cold anyway so? The colour is great. The belt loops and fly are cool, you can just see stitching on the outside where numerous spare buttons are attached to the inside waistband. I went to the park and drew flowers in them.

[bels]

are the spare buttons spare buttons or suspender attachment points?



I want to make this like an ARG for you where you have to work it out? So I'm going to spoiler the answer but I think you should be able to guess.

Where does bela go...

To look for clothes.

[oucho]

ah they must be suspender attachment buttons, I was wondering about that

[Julio]

safe to assume the inside buttons are for suspenders or braces. are they grouped in pairs or something? look good either way

[trasparenti]

^^ pants look cool

nother JP by way of France workwear brand. Really impressed with quality and cut though.
Chevre



why are so many French werkwere brands just making stuff for Japan?

[bels]

Lots of euro brands only make/mostly make stuff for Japan, no?

People in Europe don't really buy clothes? As I understand it?

[prairial]

I've found a few brands recently:

- Nice hats, socks, t-shirts and some hideous zip-up knitwear. Apparently made in Germany but popular in Japan.


Cornish smocks - , - Mainly smocks (who'd of thought?) but glad to see some 'Piratephrenalia' too.


- This is a weird one. Most of it is workwear in the truest sense of the word (hospital scrubs) but some of it looks alright () and seems to be made in England. They also seem to have a higher-end line that's popular in Japan and sold at Union Made.

- Nice 'vêtements de travail'. Not really sure where you can buy it except for in Japan but I know they've made stuff for MHL in the past.

[oucho]

Every time I open a gardening magazine I see an ad for Carrier Company http://www.carriercompany.co.uk/ . Everything is hand made in Norfolk and apparently it's 'environmentally conscious', also they say they can do customisation: 'this process allows us to remain quality- driven and flexible. Some goods can be made to order which enables us to entertain custom requests- if you want extra long leather handles on a bag or a different colour than is advertised, then we can do it.'

If Maurice Pialat's Van Gogh is the poster boy for French workwear then John Craske must be the face of Norfolk workwear:





John Craske was a Norfolk fisherman who fell ill and turned his hand to painting and embroidery, to start off he would paint on things lying around his house including wooden boxes AND HIS FRONT DOOR. I can't find any photos of him so you'll just have to guess what he looks like from his embroidery.






I feel like Norfolk is a cool place that doesn't get enough rep

[bels]

Craske is deffo jw andersonspo. There's loads of his work in Kettle's Yard, the Cambridge "modern art museum" that JW did one of his resort presentations at.

Old Town is also based in Norfolk for more NorfolkCore offerings.

[Bonobonobo]

Japanese store blog photoshoot extensively showing the hard work you could get done in a pair of Orslow French work pants.