BROWN #7 – Our first hoodie

Our first hoodie. Three years of t-shirts and sweatshirts, and this is the first time we’ve put a hood on anything.

BROWN #7 is 345 grams per square meter — a dense blend of Australian cotton, polyester and a touch of stretch. The weight is the whole point. It drapes without collapsing, and it holds its shape through a winter. 

The color took longer than the fabric. It sits between chestnut and moleskin: a dark mushroom that reads brown in most light and olive in some. We spent a while arguing about whether it was a brown or a khaki, because we already make a KHAKI #4 and the two can’t be the same family. Brown won.

Cut and assembled in Niigata, Japan — the same workshop, the same hands as our t-shirts. Oversized. Pre-shrunk.

It has been to dinner. More than once.

BROWN #7 is available here, and at RANDOM/SHOP, 228 Mott St. NYC, through December 20.