haven´t been around her for some time so please forgive me if i bring something up that is probably outdated and has been posted several time

while PR descibes otaku-like-fashion-addicts several times the thing has spilled into real life and all the gibson fans demanded the PR jacket and buzz rickson produced it - we all now that.

but if you browse through the "new products"-section of buzz rickson´s us dealer http://historypreservation.com/hpassociates/newproduct.php
you will find a complete range of PR jackets - namely a black deck jacket and a N-3 parka in PR-black.

well i hope mr gibson gets some money out of this.

ok i admit being a vintage-fashion-otaku myself (hell did you ever try to buy a vintage n-3b black label from the american ebay? forget it the japanese hardcore collector will outbid you!) hunting things like vietnam m-65s, vintage miltary leather jackets, snorkel parkas etc.

but the PR line of jackets? what a commercial scam! the ma-1 was ok and something like a nice joke linking a cool book and a cool company in otakuism. but why sell jackets not mentioned in the book as the PR line of buzz rickson?

does anyone of you actually own one of these non-ma-1-PR-buzz-rickson-jackets?

and btw: anyone interested in real M1951 fishtail parka in size M (yes even the 50s liner is still in in) - mod-style-otakus: send me a mail sorry for this commercial break.

Apparently there is a whole William Gibson clothing line from Rickson's now:
http://www.buzzricksons.jp/product/william_gibson.html

If you can read Japanese (or if you can Babelfish), you will see that he is donating his share of the profits to charity.

These tags are so cute :

Has anybody tried any of this stuff? The jeans
look nice, but I'm not sure I'd ever spend ¥24,000
on a pair of jeans.

crazy world: to see a japanese otaku jeans produced in the USA sold only in japan for a helluva lot of money.

ok the jeans look nice...

but the whole collection is somehow completely overdone. are crazy WG fans such a good and wealthy target group?

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Originally posted by teenage-robot:
but the whole collection is somehow completely overdone. are crazy WG fans such a good and wealthy target group?

I don't think these are aimed at WG fans. They
probably have a whole separate market.

"They probably have a whole separate market".
The "money-burns-hole-in-pocket" demographic...

actually the whole line seems not to be aimed at crazy WG fans but at crazy japanese buzz rickson-maniacs that requested buzz rickson jackets in black even before PR. so buzz rickson only used the PR-WG-black MA-1 incident to fulfil consumer wishes already existing.

quote WG himself in his blog on Saturday, December 31, 2005
>>>>
Recently we have been discussing an entire Pattern Recognition line, which would consist of all of their classic reproductions, but in black. People have been requesting other jackets that the USAF never issued, like a black version of the coyote-snorkel N3-B USAF parka. Ninety percent of their product sells within fifty miles of their Tokyo workrooms, they tell me, and they really aren't very interested in foreign sales. They are just, well, nuts. Divinely and magnificently nuts.

People who complain about the very high cost don't understand the degree of sheer lunatic obsession that goes into these things. You are very unlikely to ever wear another piece of clothing this well-made. I know I never have. (They are actually better than the 1950s USAF originals, which were only finished to military contract standards.) They spent a million dollars, when the company started up, on machinery to reproduce 1950s USAF-spec Crown zippers. Nobody outside of Japan is very interested in paying for that, they told me, smiling. They have found their niche-market, bigtime.
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now the WG label seems to be something like an excuse to act against the own company policy of producing only replicas of authentic american military items.

i guess i even know who the mentioned korean multi-otaku is....

btw here is a quote of the marketing BS of buzz rickson concerning the WG line:

>>>>
Early in 2003, best-selling novelist William Gibson released a groundbreaking new book, PATTERN RECOGNITION. This absorbing and masterfully crafted novel is set in the period immediately following“9-11”, featuring a high-tech., super-hip, cyber-chic, anti-fashion sophisticate, Cayce Pollard, as the heroine. Brilliantly woven within the many pages of cutting-edge prose Mr. Gibson has crafted is the one object more valued by Cayce Pollard than any other she owns - the Black Buzz Rickson's MA-1 Flying Jacket.
William Gibson is an author of superior talent and exceptional good taste. Vintage clothing represents an area of personal interest to him, especially wristwatches, US flying jackets and jeans. He is a great admirer of the goods produced by Buzz Rickson, which is what provided the inspiration for the fictionalized Buzz Rickson's black MA-1 jacket worn by his central character, Cayce Pollard, in his novel. In the course of writing his novel, Mr. Gibson was aware that no MA-1 jackets were ever produced for the USAF in black but he decided to make the color of Cayce's jacket black, not Sage Green, which is the original color of the MA-1, because Cayce’s jacket needed to be black in the creative vision of Mr. Gibson.
Just as William Gibson was simultaneously giving life to the Buzz Rickson's Black MA-1 sometime in 2002, Buzz Rickson's was giving life to a new range of its traditional flying jackets but also in black: Not only the MA-1, but also the N-1, N-3B and G-1, all of which are among Mr. Gibson's favorite flying jackets. To follow the PATTERN RECOGNITION, the 4 styles are to change its original color to black and debut. What fascinate all about the flying jackets is the combination of materials that differ in color makes distinctive beauty. The MA-1 jacket known as a masterpiece of US flying jacket, for example, is constructed with glossy heavy nylon, matte wool rib knit, zipper tape, the nature of leather of a puller. The front metallic zipper leaves a flow of cold beam. By changing all the colors to mono chrome black for the jackets, color differences of materials assembled in one jacket becomes more obvious. This is what we would like to express through the William Gibson Collection.
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I'm really quite obsessed with these garments. I adore their pure excellence. I'm still just overwhelmed by immensity of their perfection, in style, label, method of construction, and the perfect cyberpunk blackness.
Recently I got a job at a Subaru performance shop and I'm coordinating our container imports. We buy Imprezas and cut them in half and ship them over here. Well the point is, I could possibly buy a jacket an ship it over on my containers via my broker. And I'm damned tempted to get that black n3b.
Either that or find out where they are made in America, form some kind of land blockade and intercept their outgoing trucks.
The latter idea would just apply to the jeans, I guess.

I was clicking around rickson's parent company website and ended up here.
http://www.rivet-jp.com/store/wear/new/prison_bules.html
clothes made in american prisons. very glamorous.

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Originally posted by dinobyte:
I was clicking around rickson's parent company website and ended up here.
http://www.rivet-jp.com/store/wear/new/prison_bules.html
clothes made in american prisons. very glamorous.

Not sure how you got there. I don't see any links to there from Buzzricksons.jp *or* Toyo-Enterprise.co.jp.

Anyhow, regardless of what the labels say on the Buzz Ricksons jeans (or other clothes), they're all made in Japan.

And why do you cut Imprezas in half?

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Originally posted by martin:
Anyhow, regardless of what the labels say on the Buzz Ricksons jeans (or other clothes), they're all made in Japan.

really? any clue that the jeans are actually japan-made? ok i know that most desirable selvedge-vintage-jeans-garments are made in japan. but as the WG jeans are rather cheap [in comparison to other japanese-otaku-jeans] i guess they are not super-japan-selvedge.

the prison blues idea btw is something rather common today. there is a german company called haeftling (inmate) www.haeftling.de that sells prison-produced stuff.

apart from that: who needs a buzz rickson N3B - ok i definitely not as a proud owner of a real oil stained us air force N3B from 1975

The WG jeans are made in Japan, they are the nicest Selvedging and stiffest thickest denim I've seen (though admittedly I'm not a jeans-otaku). They are made of Japanese denim. WG *is* a vintage-jeans-otaku, you know that right?

How do I *know* they're made in Japan. Sorry, you'll just have to rely on what a little bird told me....

quote:

Originally posted by martin:
The WG jeans are made in Japan, they are the nicest Selvedging and stiffest thickest denim I've seen (though admittedly I'm not a jeans-otaku). They are made of Japanese denim. WG *is* a vintage-jeans-otaku, you know that right?

I sure hope that the cuffs on those jeans were rolled up (or how else did you see the selvedging )

quote:

Originally posted by martin:

Not sure how you got there. I don't see any links to there from Buzzricksons.jp *or* Toyo-Enterprise.co.jp.

Anyhow, regardless of what the labels say on the Buzz Ricksons jeans (or other clothes), they're all made in Japan.

And why do you cut Imprezas in half?

I was googling brand names and looking for retailers. :|

We cut them in half cause we are hateful evil people. Nah, we have to chop them to ship them over. Not allowed to ship complete cars. The front half holds the tranny and the motor and dash stuff and everything else of value is wrapped up in bubble wrap. More or less.
from this:


to this:

quote:

Originally posted by teenage-robot:

quote:

Originally posted by martin:
Anyhow, regardless of what the labels say on the Buzz Ricksons jeans (or other clothes), they're all made in Japan.

really? any clue that the jeans are actually japan-made? ok i know that most desirable selvedge-vintage-jeans-garments are made in japan. but as the WG jeans are rather cheap [in comparison to other japanese-otaku-jeans] i guess they are not super-japan-selvedge.

the prison blues idea btw is something rather common today. there is a german company called haeftling (inmate) www.haeftling.de that sells prison-produced stuff.

apart from that: who needs a buzz rickson N3B - ok i definitely not as a proud owner of a real oil stained us air force N3B from 1975

Well the "made in usa" jeans label is kind of odd. I'd like it better if it said "made in japan" in the same font and everything, but I'm a dork.

My Dad won't let me have his blue n3b with (I think?) genuine coyote fur. He wore it in the 70s and I love it. He just keeps it in the closet. It's in great shape too.

quote:

Originally posted by martin:
The WG jeans are made in Japan, they are the nicest Selvedging and stiffest thickest denim I've seen (though admittedly I'm not a jeans-otaku). They are made of Japanese denim. WG *is* a vintage-jeans-otaku, you know that right?

How do I *know* they're made in Japan. Sorry, you'll just have to rely on what a little bird told me....

JCrew sells high end selvage jeans that have japanese made selvage denim with red interior stiching. They are around $150US but unfortunately have a really awful pseudo-age treatment, and the fit is just blah.

Does any of the Buzz Ricksons say "Made in Japan". No.

@martin: now that is a nice piece of jeans - "only" buzz rickson or even WG buzz rickson?

btw 200 usd for a nice japanese jeans is not that bad - any idea if they are sold outside of japan? any european or us retailers known?

concerning the "made in..." topic. i really hate mislabelling thus i would love to see "made in japan" on the label - if they are really made in japan.

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