The Real McCoys
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More pics, Quality isn't too hot (taken on an iPhone)
Over all I couldn't be more pleased with this amazing shirt! In my opinion the cut and shape of the shirt is fantastic, pretty short in the body Which I like and the size is spot on for layering which is the whole reason I bought it,
The wool is so thick and warm, I had a bout 2 miles to walk this morning to work and it's down to -2 here, I had a t-shirt, Cabourn Roll neck and this on top and was as warm as toast walking in!
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nice!
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Very very nice Jord, congrats
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Cheers for all the nice comments
I absolutely love it!Looks great, Jord. Looks like it's thick enough to be worn as a jacket
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Cheers for all the nice comments
I absolutely love it!hey jord
what size are you? i see its marked 16 in the collar which is what i took in the mccoy western denim shirt.
in the UK i'm a 15 collar but i find a lot of japanese shirts can come up too tight at that size
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Your right mate , i had a short conversation with fung at take5 HK on the subject a few years ago but the language barrier ( Me speaking no Cantonese at all
) and the misses having no interest in translating ( we were there for about an hour so she was realy bored ) meant I didn't fully understand
They were linked in the past but there relationship now is unknown to me ( anyone shed any light on there present relationship ? ) -
Far as I know, the two companies are completely separate now. I have also chatted with the guys at Take5 about the same subject! (I think my wife was reading Lightning in the corner ;))
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A little more info… Toys McCoy is run by Hiroshi Okamoto (the guy on the right in the pic below). He split with the McCoys that came to be owned by Hitoshi Tsujimoto of NYLON in the 1990s as I understand it. Toys McCoy sub brands include McHill, the Steve McQueen line and Buco.
And an interesting blog entry:
The McCoys at this point were perhaps the most relevant vintage replica company anywhere in the world. There were others however that sat on the peripherals that were equally proficient like Pherrows and Buzz Rickson and even the original conception of Evis produced some amazingly beautiful garments. These companies were everything that I came to associate with integrity and authenticity and for many years I was a die hard customer. Sometime during the 2000's I began to feel uneasy about many of these Japanese companies and the direction that they were taking or not taking as the case may have been. The McCoys underwent a strange break up of partnerships that is forever difficult to understand unless you are an insider and rumours ran amok that the president had squandered the profits on ridiculous things including a B-17 bomber. As it happened a new Real McCoys / Toys McCoys emerged but it was different with Hiroshi Okamoto at the helm gone was the feeling of ultra authenticity and stripped down military utilitarianism and what replaced it was an air of safeness, a cutesy world of Disney characters and the over exploited Felix the Cat icon that smacked of the same Japanese-ness that exploits Hello Kitty or Captain Santa, essentially I felt the Real McCoys had become the Cockpit, over indulgent, over detailed and overpriced.
http://papanuisays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/critiquing-market-lets-be-honest.html
