Brand Spotlight: Repros - Topic of the day 11/21/24

A slightly different brand spotlight: getting original vintage goods is ideal, but some stuff is really hard to find. If you shop them, what are your favorite Repro brands at different price points? What things are you looking for in a "good" reproduction - authenticity, function, good design, something else?,What items are worth getting holding out for the original?
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ttocs
ttocs3w ago
Reps :kennyno: Repros :kennyyes:
plyisytwy
plyisytwy3w ago
Wake up babe new puma fashion insight boutta drop
Soup
Soup3w ago
I'm a simple guy, I like repro jeans. Nice high rise, wider cut through the leg. Nice cropped type 1 denim jacket etc. Personally I feel that TCB are a great brand for this, they go to a lot of effort to reproduce old jeans and jackets, and they are very well priced for what they sell
pumaturtle
pumaturtle3w ago
I’d say that getting the original of anything is worth it over getting a repro, however if something is truly impossible to find then a repro is acceptable. The only real repros I have off the top of my head are 1969 Abercrombie and Fitch Patchwork Hunting Pants (there are only 8 known pairs floating around in the world) and a Mitchell Camo M-65 (less than 100 true Mitchell Camo garments put into production by the US military, probably less than 10 field coats produced) and I’d say those are pretty justified. If youre looking at something readily available and get a repro though I think it’s dumb. Idk. 95% of the time the OG is cheaper and better made than the repro unless it’s Rickson’s/McCoys !!!
Soup
Soup3w ago
oh never mind puma killed me
pumaturtle
pumaturtle3w ago
Scratch that, I also have 1947 501 Repros (sugarcane 47), a 1989 Levi’s Type 1 MiJ Repro, and a 1991 MiJ Levi’s Type 2 Repro
oman121
oman1213w ago
McCoys my goat ❤️
pumaturtle
pumaturtle3w ago
I will say however that repro brands that do a design pastiche of vintage garments are awesome- stuff like Real McCoys sweatshirts and hoodies that are a pastiche of 1950’s Hanes, Champion, Russel, Cosby Knits, etc. and take design cues (foldback sleeves, double sweatcatchers, tubular knits) are great Love it when someone makes a garm their own and makes it ridiculously over the top nice. I’m wearing a double dorito real mccoys sweat rn!
Garet
Garet3w ago
This was awesome thanks for sharing
punchouli
punchouli3w ago
Love repros, people weren’t stacked like me back in the day so I can buy things that fit me gooder. The average man in 1940 was 85 pounds and 3 feet tall.
ttocs
ttocs3w ago
thanks for sharing
Shrimp
Shrimp3w ago
Still is. Despite the camera trickery in my waywts I’m 2’11”
punchouli
punchouli3w ago
We round up in these parts
ttocs
ttocs3w ago
on my screen you are all about 3 inches tall
Yakkeks
Yakkeks3w ago
I think repros and old-timey inspired pseudo repros are fine. Sometimes getting the real deal is an immense pain in the ass and unless you enjoy the hunt not worth it. Also the body type issue. Finding a fitting original from like 80 years ago is considerably easier when you are A S or M size than as an L-XL person.
raisinpie
raisinpie3w ago
M65 jackets in particular - there are so many brands making field jackets these days and most of them look worse and cost as much as a vintage m65
AndrewA
AndrewA3w ago
M65 are definitely a piece where the repro makes less sense but I think in a decade the OG Vietnam ones will be rarer and a repro will make more sense But repros are great for older and rarer military pieces Like most uniforms older than the Vietnam era, Tiger camo, duck camo, N-1 deck jackets, and footwear. And the Vietnam era ones are increasingly rarer and creeping up in price.
bstormo
bstormo3w ago
Vietnam war ended 50 years ago. It’s sort of crazy that there is anything left.
Yakkeks
Yakkeks3w ago
I mean the us had on average something between 250-300k ppl deployed for a 11 year period most of them had a few fatigues I guess
bstormo
bstormo3w ago
Good point. I have some of my dad clothes from the same period (he was not military). 50 years just sounds so long ago.
Legs
Legs3w ago
There also wasn't a clear end in sight so the government ended the war with a big surplus that they sold off very cheaply
femto
femto3w ago
The M-65 etc kept on being made and issued after. But yeah there's a gigantic gap between the commonest military or workwear items and the rare ones, and smaller and larger sizes WWII era things you can sometimes get in basically XS/S easy but forget about it in L even
Digs
Digs3w ago
Its out there just gotta be diligent and patient
Garet
Garet3w ago
Yeah I’ve found large sizes but I always have to pay more and they’re certainly more rare I’m lucky to live near some good vintage markets where I have been quite lucky
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