Ask Giles Anything
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It’s a W that stands for Works Inc, the iron heart parent company. Or it can be an M for Motorcycle if you like..
Both make sense. Thanks for clarifying.
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…Sir Giles, is it safe to say that IHUK online would be the most likely place to find XXXXL in shirts/jackets etc and that retailers around the world generally don't ask for or want XXXXL's?
...and/or that very few XXXXL's are even produced?
...'Curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought him back' I P
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Yes, IHUK is the most likely place to find XXXXL. IH Japan never stocks them, for some unknown reason and very few western retailers take XXXXL.
And yes, we make very few. Oour buying from Japan is based on a bell curve related to previous demand for products of the same type.
That said, the shape of our bell curves is skewed by the limitations of what we historically stocked. So for instance, if we only stocked 4 x XXXXL of a product, then the most we could sell was only 4, even if we could have sold 20. We realized this about a year ago with the super popular sizes, so we have been steepening the bell curve and are ordering a LOT more L's and XL's (in the case shirts and jackets), we very recently realized that we needed to order more XXXXL's, so we will start doing so from now.
Unfortunately, FW21 orders went in before we realized.
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I'm just so thankful Iron Heart offers the 4XL because no other Japanese brand makes shirts or jackets that fit me and the overall vibe of IH just feels right.
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When I first started working with Haraki, the largest size he made in tops was XL….I've been pushing the sizing boundaries ever since
And for that I owe you a debt of gratitude.
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…I'm with @Palmer! Feel very fortunate that I'm right at the cusp on this sizing subject!
…and with that being said @Palmer is my direct competition now on who gets to the limited items being offered! Like a damn game show, who clicks the 'BUY' button first! :o
…all good and it makes it kind of fun and interesting. Psychologically speaking when there's just 'one' sitting there available it does a real number on me!
...thanks Giles!
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When I first started working with Haraki, the largest size he made in tops was XL….I've been pushing the sizing boundaries ever since
And part of the reason I glommed onto IH. Other brands' size XL were M to my mind.
And the unsinged, uncalendered, unsized, unanything was interesting. Little did I know…
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…I'm with @Palmer! Feel very fortunate that I'm right at the cusp on this sizing subject!
…and with that being said @Palmer is my direct competition now on who gets to the limited items being offered! Like a damn game show, who clicks the 'BUY' button first! :o
…all good and it makes it kind of fun and interesting. Psychologically speaking when there's just 'one' sitting there available it does a real number on me!
...thanks Giles!
Totally agree. Sometimes I'll agonize for weeks over the last item in stock.
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…it's like 'would somebody just buy the damn thing!!!'.
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@Giles what's your favourite idea you've had that Haraki has refused to do? The one that got away kind of thing
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Ah yes, remember spotting that and the story of repeatedly asking Haraki. Looks amazing. Thanks for that, and an excellent thread
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Alex and I start seeding ideas whenever we have flashes of brilliance
whenever we think of them. Haraki starts the "formal" process the moment the previous collection has gone to production, so FW21 will have started being thought about in Oct/Nov 20.The Fleece-lined type III. Alex and I thought about this probably 18 months ago and we have sampled it a couple of times, we decided to include it as part of the FW21 collection, it won't be released in Japan.
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I'm a relative newcomer on here, although I have lurked for a while, so this has probably been answered somewhere else. Since you have said that you pretty much wear one pair for a year, what do you do with all of your old/retired pairs (since they all look pretty amazing once you are done with them)?
