The medium is 22.75" pit to pit.

Last edited by Russell_Street (2008-09-15 09:42:54)

Last edited by Alex Roest (2008-09-15 15:18:28)

In the 1980s Russell Athletic made a sublime sweatshirt. It was, significantly, MADE IN USA. And this is the key point I think. Wherever 'outsourcing' (cheap 3rd world labour) occurs the quality dips alarmingly. I can think of no exception to this. The Weejun, most Brooks Brothers stock, Clarks Desert Boots, Sebago shoes, RL polo shirts, Sperry Topsiders, and many many more - the list of iconic items effectively now sold as pale imitations of the originals is depressingly long. And the sweatshirt I feel, like the polo shirt, can easily be mass produced in the Far East using cheap materials and cheap labour. Russell now sell awful products made in some sweat shop and sized for the increasingly obese American market. I would rather pay £60 for a great American sweatshirt, or £150 for a proper Bass Weejun made in Wilton, Maine. But would the mass market? Clothes made to last should be expensive but contemporary capitalism, with its unstoppable urge to shirt more and more units, prefers to offer us shoddy products that only look good on the day you buy them.

Last edited by the style councillor (2008-09-16 08:14:14)

The only thing JS is "paying the price for" is for being almost 70 years old and feeling the inevitable pull to slow down and think of retirement. The business does well, and has done since 1965. He has one of the best, most interesting, sussed and loyal customer bases of any small retail business in London. Why so loyal? Because the service, like the goods he sells, is invariably impeccable.

Getting back on track, I like the look of those USA-made Cobble Cloth crews that Jesmond drew our attention to sometime back .......

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Last edited by Chris_H (2008-09-16 10:07:09)

You stay right where you are HBH, unless of course, York, Elms or some other dolls head like Dylan Jones in next edition of GQ instructs you to do otherwise.

Could you send me that book? I'll send it back as soon as I#m finished... Could take me a little while, though, as I am a little slow brain, and as I will have to excerpt all his style tips, pedantically...


As for Elms, I think he doesn't have a clue about punk rock, I thought, but he seemed to be very inside this whole Blitz Kid thing... Maybe that's something for our vile coucillor? You could be spearheading that revival, my friend! Go for it!

Where the f*ck did I say the old fella should sell 6876? What I'm saying is that there's plenty more local independent artisans who make quality gear at better prices if you get off your lazy f*ckin arses and do a little bit of detective work, who won't bore the tits off you giving it the old, "back in the day" patter. In fact, may I be has bold as to suggest that the yellow sweat 6876 sold last year is more Ivy and better than any sweat I've seen in JS's  for donkey's years.