Here’s another piece you’ll have to travel through shark-infested to get your hands on (or pay a proxy). Journal Standard have released an updated version of a chino we featured aaages ago, but the reasons we like it are still the same: that gingham lining. We’re bamboozled as to why more companies aren’t doing this, what with rolling your trousers being hot stuff and all that. Sure, there’s a couple out there, but not enough. Anyhoo, these are purdy, come in three colourways (green’s our favourite) and only available to those with the patience of a saint and the email address of a proxy. (Style Cruise)
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Hi. Do anyone know if it is possible to get the style-cruise webpage in English?
Why don’t these Japanese companies offer international shipping? It seems that so many of them have such a ready market in the US and Europe that a minor change to their business practice would result in a huge increase in sales. I don’t get the logic of being so insular.
I order into the UK from American and Australian and Canadian labels all the time. What’s stopping the Japanese doing international sales? And, moreover, why do so few of them have European or American distributors & stockists?
Someone who knew the business and who could speak English and Japanese fluently could make a killing running a webstore selling the best Japanese brands; the ones that are covered so frequently on the style blogs. It absolutely baffles me that no-one’s done this systematically.
Here’s a question – since this is such a hotly desired effect, how much do you think a tailor would charge to sew a lining into the cuffs of an existing pair of chinos? Old Uniqlo chinos + a scrap of gingham fabric = instant freshness?
I doubt it’d cost much, probably about as much as it’d cost to get a pair tapered.
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