IHSH-134 Olive Herringbone Western

If the material cost is high, surely widening the market to IHJP would increase production runs, reduce unit costs and hence drive up sales if that reduction is reflected in the price?

yeah, there is the one that you link saying that he's bumped his head. i actually read it as more tongue in cheek as a scathing attack on his character. also a single comment isn't really enough to warrant: "What is not fine (by me), is that I went out of my way to explain Iron Heart and the way we work in an open, transparent and honest manner on their forum and I may as well have chewed my own testicles off, for all the good it seems to have done....."

...as that would seem to indicate a barrage of negative feedback on him and the brand he represents. i don't frequent the IH board, but don't see anything in this thread and can't really imagine that board overrun with comments that would justify that sort of overreaction.

then again...i could be too sensitive about his reaction to the board's reaction .

I'm lost

It's all relative. I've bought in to the brand because of my location. People who DON'T have access to order from Rakuten though, I don't see how they do it. I get all of my standard IH pieces from IHJP, so an occasional splurge from Giles doesn't burn so bad.

And value in service when Giles knows you really want an items, and sends you a PM saying he removed one from the offered inventory and sets it aside for YOU...

THAT was shocking

giles so there is not a big Iron Heart factory sew-shop? Just people in house factories with phenomenal sewing skills, or is that only true for certain items?

Referring to this part of his post:

"Putting more shirts through the shirt factory (another house factory, but a little bigger) makes no difference to cost either, we've maxed them out too...."

Apart from the technical gear (Gortex, Primaloft, Pertex) none of our garments are made in large facilities. The largest will be the heavyweight jeans line because we need 13 separate machines to make a pair of jeans. I have not visited all the places we weave and construct our stuff, but I continue to be amazed at how tiny the places are. We tried to expand the shirt making production capability recently, it was a disaster we lost a load of money and the quality was just not up to snuff, there simply was no way to fix the issues (I have the utmost confidence that Haraki would have done it if he could), so we shut it down and walked away with our tails between our legs....

We regularly release new versions of printed loopwheeled Tee's. We are also working on a new shape crew neck that will have smaller arms than the existing crew neck.

Regarding the 633.  No that is a Self Edge exclusive.  Kiya came up with the concept and asked for exclusivity, we gave it to him.  Do I wish I'd thought of it?  Yes, but it was not my idea....

I was surprised too, lol. Surprised, but not shocked. Over the past 3 years living in Japan, seeing their work ethic and attention to detail is amazing to say the least. Whether they are part of a team, or working as an individual it doesn't seem to matter...

My final comment on this topic.

This shirt was not my idea, it was suggested by a customer, once the idea was mooted, others said they would be interested too. I spoke to Haraki about it, he said he did not want to do it as it would be ridiculously expensive. I asked how much, his response "probably more than UHF's". I relayed this back to the people who were interested, they remained enthusiastic. This was not a case of Haraki and me sitting in a darkened room smoking a large spliff and working out how we could screw the masses.