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The Mister Freedom® Californian Blue Jeans
Our interpretation of the classic five pocket denim jeans
BOSCO PANTS
The style was to become a 1970’s fashion staple, with mass-produced stocks of bells eventually filling-up Army-Navy surplus stores around the world.
RANCH BLOUSE
An original mfsc pattern, influenced by early denim ‘trucker’ type jackets
LA TONKINOISE
Snow denim: Dark and slubby 10 Oz. 2×1 indigo blue denim, White/yellow line selvedge ID, milled in Japan.
NIXON Shirt
Selvedge Color Chambray, The pattern of our ‘Nixon’ shirt is largely inspired by an original 1950’s vintage
TRIPPER BAG DENIM TYPE II
This limited edition “TRIPPER Bag, Type II″ is ‘Mister Freedom® built’, right here in our Los Angeles atelier. In other words, designed and hand made in the USA.
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CASQUETTE La “Deffe”
The pattern is inspired by early french men’s casquettes, different from the newspaper boy cap, the US version of it
MISTER FREEDOM® x PALLADIUM®:
Introducing the “PALLADENIM”, a traditional PALLADIUM shoe design, revisited by MISTER FREEDOM
TRIPPER Bag Denim Type II
This limited edition “TRIPPER Bag, Type II″ is ‘Mister Freedom built’, right here in our Los Angeles atelier. In other words, designed and hand made in the USA.
The MF® Juke Joint!
So. If you have an urge to cut a rug, shake a leg, do the bop, get rhythm, jump the blues, dig the boogie, or need rock therapy, we are adding a new section to our online store: the MF® Juke Joint
BLUE BLOODED: DENIM HUNTERS AND JEANS CULTURE
Jeans are equal parts subculture and establishment. Worn as both work clothes and luxury fashion, they are practically universal. This book contains everything you need―and want―to know about jeans.
LE PAREO
A collectible mfsc original, inspired by elegant vintage island fashion, traditional Polynesian wear, and business formal attire
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Tel: 323-653-2014
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Calico Trade Shirt
$ 359.95
STORY
You have a second? Let’s look into the amazing A.C. Wroman photograph annotated “Volz’s store. Oraibi, 1901” posted last week. The store featured was located in the center of the largest Moki village of that reservation.
Mr. Volz, trader and guide, had also opened one about thirty miles away from the railway (and the UPS dude thinks he has it tough now).
As seen in that scene, a large variety of fancy calico printed fabric was available by the yard in trading posts and dry goods stores. Even in the most remote location, locals (or, more accurately in this photograph, “relocated” individuals) could come and pick a few yards of bold color cotton calico to make the family clothes. The young woman with her son is considering a large lower printed cloth, under the shopkeepers’ enigmatic stares.
Bartering jewelry, blankets, pottery or baskets for those ready-made fabrics was an alternative to relying on the traditional century old tasks of hand spinning yarns and hand weaving to clothe one-self. The traders would in turn sell the Natives’ crafts to travelers or collectors.
According to period photographs of the early 1900’s, it appears that calico printed ‘homemade’ shirts were a well spread non-traditional garment for many Native Indians. Since the 1800’s those fabrics had been imported from Europe and widely used and reused by the pioneers and homesteaders (see “Calico Chronicles”, Betty J. Mills, 1985.)
One can speculate that adopting some “white man’s” textiles was a small step towards reluctant integration amongst some Indian Natives… This other Wroman photograph, annotated “Hopi Towns, men of Sichimovi, 1901”, shows Hopi men wearing a wide variety of homemade shirts made from assorted imported shirting fabrics, calico and stripes.
Our shirting fabric base is an Indigo dyed 4.5 Oz fine all cotton broadcloth and we used a discharge print technique. These fabrics were exclusively milled and printed in Japan for this MFSC® collection. The shirts are a European pull-over type, collar less with chin strap extension. We used rare and authentic 1920’s New Old Stock ox bone buttons we happily found, in limited quantities, buttons of Portuguese origin.
I am not a big fan of un-tucked shirts, as a personal preference, but those look also good that way, notably for our lady friends. I am, however, a huge fan of early indigo calico fabrics and finding an actual 1900’s surviving men’s shirt shares it’s odds with the discovery of a hen’s tooth, in a hay stack.
So, in or out, I’m now happy wearing mine. Some folks might think that a “polka dot” shirt is not “manly” enough in 2012, but it sure was in 1912. And, in years to come, I wouldn’t be surprised seeing calico shirts as popular amongst discerning gents as blue work chambrays have become.
On a much lighter note, these are the background premises of our MFSC “Calico Trade Shirt” this spring. From our collected archives of many dozens of early American calico swatches and garments, we have selected two that we freely called “Apache” and “Pueblo”.
FABRIC
PATTERN: An original MFSC pattern, inspired by 1900′s~30′s pull-over shirting, with it’s origins in Europe before becoming a popular Old West garb feature.
FABRIC:
100% Cotton broadcloth, 4.5 Oz., dark Indigo dyed and discharge printed. Milled, dyed and printed in Japan. Two options: “Apache” calico print (tiny sun looking prints) and “pueblo” calico print (reminiscent of pueblos architecture)
This is NOT a cheap navy blue print on a white fabric. By the time a Trade Shirt reaches us, many people have been involved in its making, none of them residing in China:
* Our natural broadcloth was dipped many times in an indigo vat to reach the desired shade of dark indigo. plain weave fabric.
Designed in California by Mister Freedom® and manufactured in Japan by Sugar Cane Co under our MFSC® collaboration. Limited Edition.
SPECS
* Then the shirts go to the long and tedious cut/sew production period…
* Early homesteader, reminiscent of early non-traditional Indian Native style/silhouette
* Stand collar with chin strap
* Back panel and cuffs shearing.
* Real 1920’s ox bone NOS buttons.
* Button placket facing with contrast white all cotton muslin fabric.
* Original rayon woven MFSC labeling on bottom of the button placket, reminiscent of early European Henley type undershirt label placement.
* Flat felled chain-stitch seams and single needle machine construction.
* Side gussets, European construction.
* 100% cotton ivory color high count stitching.
* A special paste was applied to the dyed fabric with a screen of the Apache or pueblo print.
* The discharge process is finalized by way of steaming, the paste ‘bleaches out’ the fabric. The face of the fabric looks different than the inside because of the inconsistency of the ’bleed through’ effect.
SIZING/ FIT
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CARE
SIZING/SHRINKAGE:
The trade shirt comes RAW, unwashed, and will shrink very minimally with cold wash and hang dry (the indigo dying process has technically taken care of the shrinkage)
I recommend minimal detergent (such as Woolite for dark or equivalent), in order to keep the rich indigo color longer.
As with ALL indigo dyed garments, color bleeding and rubbing is expected and unavoidable. Arms and body or white undershirts and skivvies WILL turn blue (no Smurf panic here, it all washes off easily). The color rubbing will minimize after several washing/wearing cycles, until it eventually stops. Available RAW/Unwashed
COLOR:
SUGGESTIONS:
Tonkinoise Shirt
Color: Blue Chambray
$329.95
Reno Shirt
Color: Black Snow
$399.95
Prairie Shirt
Color: Denim
$359.95
Ranchero Shirt
Color: Indigo Calico
$399.95
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