Holy Stitch

SEWING LESSONS FOR YOU STREETWEAR HEADS…STOP LURKING AND SCROLLING AND GET ON. 🤷🏽‍♂️🔌👖🚪

MY JEANS ARE AS OLD AS MY OWN KIDS…MIGHT LAST LONGER.

HAPPY 501 DAY I HOPE U ARE AND OR NOT ON THE NEWS LETTER IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN…

JEAN RELEASE AND DETAILS THERE.

BACK IN THE DAY THERE A WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS THROWN INTO A ROOM WITH A BUNCH OF PATTERNMAKING EQUIPMENT AT A LARGE JEANS CORPORATION AND OUT OF THAT ROOM THAT PERSON CREATED SME OF THE BEST AND ROBUST PATTERN MAKING SYSTEMS, EQUATIONS, COPYRIGHTS AND PATENTS.

HE IS REGARDED AS THE BEST TO MANY IN THE INDUSTRY.

ONE DAY WHILE I WORKING AT THE FACTORY DURING LUNCH I WAS IN A CULTURAL SITUATON WHERE I THOUGHT ALL THE LADIES WERE CALLING ME THE N WORD AND ME BEINF PSEDO REVOLUTIONARY AND YOUNG DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO OR SAY AS EVERYONE WAS JUST THROWING THIS WORD AROUND! NONE THE LESS I WENT TO THE ONLY PERSON I FELT COULD RELATE AND TOLD HIM WHAT WAS GOING ON AND HE JUST LAUGHED AND SMILED AS HE KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND GOING ON. THIS IS NOW NOTHING AND COMMONPLACE IF YOU HAVE WORKED IN AND OUT OF FACTORIES AND CHINA. HE TOLD ME WHAT WAS GOING ON AND THEN THAT WAS THAT. LITTLE DID I KNOW WHO THAT GUY WAS.

I LATER FOUND OUT HE MADE JEANS AND IMPOSED A MENTORSHIP ONTO HIM. HE HAS TAUGHT ME MORE ABOUT LIFE THAN JEANS AND BETWEEN HIM AND I E HAVE MADE SOME OF THE BEST JEANS, WORK, PATTERNS AND GARMENT FOR SOME OF THE LARGEST, COOLEST AND RESPECTED COMPANIES.

WITH BEING THE TRUE JEANS BRAND OF SAN FRANCISCO I THOUGHT OT WAS ONLY FITTING PUN INTEDNDED TO GET THE BEST VERTERAN PATTERN MAKER THAT HELPED SET OUF SOME OF THE STUFF THAT IS PROB IN YOUR CLOSET TODAY.

FOR THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE. A CLASSROOM IN A PAIR OF JEANS.

PRE ORDERS WILL BE UP FIRST FOR PEOPLE ON OUR NEWSLETTER AND IN SHOP AT 1059 MARKET STREET. EACH PAIR WILL BE MADE FOR YOU SPECIFICALLY. EMPOWEREING YOUTH AND COMMUNITY AT THE SAME TIME.

MORE DETAILS ON THE ACTUAL JEAN SOON!

LOVE YOU AND TAKE CARE!

AMIDST ALL OF THE CEASE AND DESISTING THAT IS GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES THEY CAN NEVER DO WHAT WE DO…

AND NOR CAN THEY STOP WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

IRREGARDLESS HAS PUT UP THEIR PROGRAMMING FOR WORKSHOPS, CLASSES AND DENIM SCHOOL.

THIS IS NOT ARTS AND CRAFTS OR A HOBBY. BUT NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED. WE USE INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINES ONLY AND FACTORY TECHNIQUES, MUCH DIFFERENT THAN SCHOOL AND YOU TUBE. BUT WORTH A LIFETIME.

I REALLY HAVE HAD TO SIT DOWN AND THINK ABOUT ALOT AND AM GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THIS. AND TO SHARE IT WITH YOU.

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THE SEED HAS ARRIVED.

THIS ISN’T A PROP. THIS IS A COTTON PLANT — GROWN BY MY BROTHER CHRISTOPHER RENFRO OF , A NONPROFIT FARM AND COLLECTIVE RIGHT HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

WE’VE BEEN IN THIS CONVERSATION FOR YEARS. WHAT COULD BE. WHAT SHOULD BE. WHAT WE WANT FOR OUR FAMILIES, OUR INDUSTRY, OUR PEOPLE.

JEANS MAY HAVE BEEN BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO. THAT’S DEBATABLE. BUT THEY DAMN SURE SEEMED TO DIE HERE.
I’M HERE TO CHANGE THAT.

SEED TO RETAIL. GROWN AND SEWN IN SF. A TRUE DENIM PRODUCT — FROM THE EARTH TO THE FACTORY FLOOR TO YOUR BODY.

THIS IS HOLY STITCH!. THIS IS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. THIS IS WHAT WE’VE BEEN BUILDING TOWARD.

AND THE TIMING? WITH EVERYTHING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?

THIS IS EXACTLY WHERE WE’RE SUPPOSED TO BE.

YESTERDAY I SHOWED YOU THE LETTER.

TODAY I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.

986 MARKET. 1100. A FEW IN BETWEEN. NOW 1059.

TECH COMPANIES AND CLOTHING STORES HAVE COME AND GONE ON THIS BLOCK. WE’RE STILL HERE.

501C3 IS THE LEGAL SHAPE OF A TWENTY-YEAR IDEA.
A FACTORY THAT TEACHES. A CLASSROOM THAT PRODUCES. A COMMUNITY THAT MAKES.

NEXT WEEK WE START CUTTING A NEW RUN.

EVERY PAIR NUMBERED. EVERY PAIR MADE BY STUDENTS AND APPRENTICES WHO EARNED THE SKILL HERE.

I HAVE TEACHERS IN THIS INDUSTRY. NOT ENEMIES.
EVEN THE ONES WHO DON’T KNOW THEY’RE TEACHING.

SPRING’S HERE. LET’S BUILD.

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