Mister Crew

S2W8’s store blog has some pictures of a new pair of jeans from Engineered Garments’ smaller Progressive Clothing line. Made in NYC, various types of Cone Mills denim are arranged in a way to make them look like old school four panel “fun” shirts and pants. Even the selvage edges have different colored threads.

Last year, the only known pieces under the Progressive Clothing line were the suit jacket, pants, and shorts made by Southwick.

Related posts:
– Engineered Garments flannel fun shirt
– Engineered Garments Fall/Winter 2010 Lookbook

Among my favorite pieces from Engineered Garments are their seasonal sweatshirts. I’ve collected quite a few over the years in all sorts of different materials and colors, and they continue to hold up well to constant wear. The large cuffs and waistbands are vintage inspired, and on the crewnecks instead of a typical stitched “V”, the collar uses an ingenious overlapping seam along the front to prevent it from being stretched out.

Except for some earlier versions which had very short sleeves, they fit how a sweatshirt should fit – not too slim, but not too loose.

There are two sources of manufacturers for these: the plain cotton sweatshirts above were all made in the U.S, and the fleece versions below were made in Canada (reportedly by CYC edit: Ryan tells me some other folks make them).

I’m hoping that they’ll eventually reissue more plain cotton versions so that I can replace some of my older dog-eared ones. Stuart and Wright currently have a few crewnecks left from the current season on sale.

The Engineered Garments lookbook for FW10 is now available online, along with the images for the FWK collection. The bike messenger inspired pieces are very surprising and would be perfect for a tweed run.

The more newer interesting stuff:
– Hartford 3/4 pants, bike knicker shorts, utility pants
– Explorer jacket, Ashfield jacket, fireman shirt jacket, bike jacket, storm parka
– Fedora with ear flaps

The belts with the sterling silver buckles are back as well.

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Houyhnhnm has a preview of some of the new Bedford jackets in the Engineered Garments Fall/Winter collection, one in a variated knit pattern and the other in a windowpane fabric.

Also – I missed this from earlier this year, but the Non-No guys seem to have gotten a shot of the new leather jackets (below on the right). On the left is a blanket lined parka and a blue quilted vest.

Hopefully the lookbook for the full collection will be released publicly soon, and we can probably expect that they’ll start shipping things within the next month or two.

Update: Nepenthes has updated their site with a new journal for this week showing a few more items including a nice plaid workshirt (the pattern is much more wearable than the bright ones from last year) and a new corduroy Irving vest.

Update 2: The Fall/Winter 2010 lookbook is now out.