Designer explains jacket creation processfrom @frontoffice.co

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If I was to grade myself as a hunter or a gatherer, I'm a gatherer. I know who I am. So hunting jackets are really popular. So let's design a hunting jacket, but not for hunters, for gatherers. And the first thing I do is that I familiarize myself with the vocabulary of design. Looking through this stuff immediately in my head, I'm just categorizing these design elements, things that are more aggressive and hunter y. Anything that would accommodate a gun like leather patches where you would rest your gun, that's more hunter y. Things like game pockets where you would store game, big slings, that would what I categorize as to more better y. And once you get those ideas, then you can start sketching. So we're gonna start with a corduroy collar and then lots and lots of pockets to reinforce this idea of gathering. So we good like stuff stuff behind us, in front of us. And that was the first idea. And eventually it developed into this idea of a hunter gatherer jacket. Well half the side was more aggressive and the other half was less aggressive. I was really taken by fishing vests in particular. Big slings at the bad where you good, keep all your game. I had this idea of the sling that worse run from the body around to the rank. And then we made a sample. So you would recognize the same silhouette as, you know, like a car hot jacket, basically. We start off with this really lovely Japanese corduroy. Then we pair it with this military reproduction duck cloth from World War II. And they are obsessive about getting it exactly right. So it's no exaggeration to say that this is exactly Worse War II cloth. It is a beautiful fabric. For the gathering side, we've incorporated this idea of the sling from those fishing vests all the way from the front and into the bad. So we've literally divided into hunting and gathering. The thing I'm not sure about is the asymmetry of it all. I think it's a very clever idea to go hunter and gatherer. It does come at some compromise to the wearability of the jacket. My arms don't enter the same way. After a while, after you get used to how clever the idea is, is this gonna be a hindrance? Right? Is this gonna annoy people? It makes me think that if you make this a double gatherer jacket with slings on both sides and then the back, it's less clever of an idea but it'll be way more usable. I'm trying to make clothes not for a five second trick of the mind, right, where I no, oh, better gatherer. I'm trying to make clothes that I use often. I think ends up being a better jacket. A lot of people on the internet would have you believe that you are just paying for the raw fabric and the manpower required to sew it together. So you're not seeing all the failure that gets you to that point. You're not seeing the bad sketches, brainstorming with the pattern maker. But that's the real stuff. Right? I good be mistaken, but I think that the knowledge of the 16 bad designs gives the final design more value.