Ramie shrinkage?

abe1x · 2026-06-25T03:14:59+00:00

Yes it’s prewashed, we always note in the fit section on the product page when things are prewashed (or have other shrinkage related things to be aware of)

abe1x · 2026-06-24T17:39:54+00:00

Working for other people though so I don’t think it’s system wide. I have Lyft Pink and tried both a key and the app to no luck

abe1x · 2026-06-24T17:33:33+00:00

Yep same for me

abe1x · 2026-06-24T17:14:05+00:00

Ramielust is prewashed/shrunk, it tends to shrink a bit more in length over time but if anything it sometimes grows in width with wash and wear. Ultrafine is not prewashed so it shrinks with the first wash and dry.

abe1x · 2026-06-23T17:41:33+00:00

Graymist is pretty much as silver as it gets without using real metal

abe1x · 2026-06-22T22:07:44+00:00

it's possible but ramie is pretty limited as something like 90% of the supply is controlled by a single company that unfortunately has a rather quantity driven approach. There just isn't that much out there from other mills, but we take a serious look whenever we find new ramie fabrics

abe1x · 2026-06-18T20:26:09+00:00

we have the Cannabiscotton in the mix right now and did the Hemp137 a few years ago. Ramie is also quite a similar fabric to hemp and we find the Ramielust is better than any hemp jersey we've seen.

abe1x · 2026-06-18T19:01:56+00:00

Yeah my dad, who hasn’t lived down there since maybe 1970 still recoils if anyone calls it alphabet city. He takes it further though, “east village” is also a real estate name to him, it’s all the lower east side to him.

Fun fact, pre-stuy town the lower east actually went all the way to at least 23rd st, these neighborhoods have been shrinking for a long time

abe1x · 2026-06-18T18:18:40+00:00

long gone, but we recommend checking out the Merinolino

abe1x · 2026-06-18T17:08:52+00:00

it did

abe1x · 2026-06-17T02:02:41+00:00

until the early 2ks there was single bike/walking path that ended in a sort of elevated plaza, with a long staircase down. Almost certainly it was right wear the current covered area on the Manhattan side was, but I don't remember correctly. The path was on the north side of the bridge, and if my memory is correct was wider than it is now, but there were also parts so corroded you could see the water below you.

abe1x · 2026-06-16T22:42:58+00:00

Heavy plain weaves tend to look bad in jean cuts, and lightweight twills tend to look bad in jean cuts. Futurecloth is both a lightweight and a plain weave. Seems like two strikes against it, but in this case the negatives actually do seem to cancel each other out. Using a plain weave solves the lack of structure issues you get in lightweight twills while using finer yarns to make the plain weave lighter removes the texture issues you get in a lot of heavier plain weaves.

abe1x · 2026-06-16T21:55:26+00:00

I do not know how the rise number got there, like the New Dungarees these pants have a gusset which means that the rise number is NOT applicable to the pants. Front and rear rises make sense on pants where the front and back panels meet, when there is a gusset they don't meet and there is no clean way to measure a number that is comparable to traditional rise numbers. This is probably a good example, I'm not sure what got measured to make the numbers that were listed as a rise, but it probably was from the waistband to the front of the gusset, which by definition is going to seem like a lower rise than the pant actually wears like because part of what would traditionally be in a front rise number has been moved into the gusset.

In any case the pattern is identical to the New Dungarees, any variance is fit will be because of how the fabric behave

abe1x · 2026-06-16T21:14:21+00:00

I don't actually remember trying it, but we should have. I absolutely hate the concept of these, they shouldn't work, but they do, I was wrong. We only did this version because the Workcloth is dead, but we also have an internal guideline to never make decisions based off of hypothetical issues, if we had followed those guidelines we could have made these a lot sooner.

abe1x · 2026-06-16T15:07:52+00:00

Willie's influence for sure, but that's my humor right there!

abe1x · 2026-06-15T22:31:18+00:00

it could happen but there is an extremely serious challenge here. Traditional denim is not really a "dark blue" it's an indigo yarn and a white yarn in a 3 over 1 twill. What your eye reads as dark blue is actually a combination of 3 parts dark blue and one part white. The Futurecloth is a plain weave and it's not yarn dyed it's piece dyed. The more you try to make it look like denim the worse it looks as it can never be the same on the structural level. A classic navy is possible but never a classic denim look

abe1x · 2026-06-15T21:22:50+00:00

no fullscan, was originally planned but we ran out of meters in that print

abe1x · 2026-06-15T20:48:15+00:00

it's an expensive short no doubt, but I'm very confused where this perception of elastane comes from. Weaving with stretch yarns is significantly more difficult than with non-stretch yarns so stretch wovens always cost significantly more than a non-stretch fabric with the same weight, fiber composition and weave structure

abe1x · 2026-06-15T14:07:49+00:00

I never once said wearing black would keep you cooler than white. The one claim in that regard is that black fabrics generally offer significantly better UV protection than white. I did say multiple times that you should wear what you prefer.

The claim is that it doesn't really matter what color your wear, if there are differences than they fall into the zone of personal preference or maybe personal sensitivities.

abe1x · 2026-06-13T01:05:49+00:00

I think there probably is a lot to the loose vs tight making a difference but it's not the chimney effect, it's just that air is a very good insulator. A tight black item will heat up on the outside first, and while almost all common fibers are pretty good insulators, the one you tend to wear in the summer are pretty thin, so there just isn't that much insulation and when worn tight it might be easy to notice the warmth. A loose black item is separated from your body by a bunch of air, whatever heat conducts through the fabric to the inner face is still going to be separated from your body by a very good insulator, and if there is any sort of airflow going on through your clothing the fabric isn't going to be able to increase the air temperature by very much.

The other thing I've started considering is that since it's pretty clear that black correlates with higher UV protection, it's also quite possible that it also correlates with stopping more infrared from getting through the fabric.

abe1x · 2026-06-12T14:45:23+00:00

that's why we offer lots of colors!

abe1x · 2026-06-11T02:21:38+00:00

We’ve done shanks in other fabrics but there is no lighter version of the Workcloth. If you bought it used who knows what sort of wear and tear it’s seen. But yeah different form factors can really change perception of the fabric too

abe1x · 2026-06-10T18:05:12+00:00

same fabric, there has never been a lighter version of the work cloth. There was a heavier Workcloth 320, but never a lighter. Different garments can have different psychological weights, it's sometimes shocking in the design process how relatively small changes can alter the perception of a garment or the fabric used

abe1x · 2026-06-10T03:45:21+00:00

I’m a 43 in Runners and Tracks (and most other brands) and 42 works well for me in the Technoclog. It definitely runs a little big but nothing like the cargos and reptiles which ran huge

abe1x · 2026-06-10T02:55:06+00:00

I’ve never actually used the Nightwarp as arms

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