Up for sale here is a shirt from Japanese repro-specialists Warehouse. Although they’re perhaps best known for their jeans, they have strong shirting and outerwear lines as well, where they consistently rank near the top of the Japanese “American casual” brands. Iron Heart may be known for their heavy weight fabrics, or Sugar Cane for their often interesting choice of materials, but Warehouse is a quality all-around brand. They don’t advertise and basically let the quality of their clothing speak for itself.
Like a lot of the Japanese labels out there, quality is paramount for Warehouse, where all of their stuff is produced old-school, done on vintage looms and mean to evoke 1950s-60s era work and sportswear. Production runs are typically small, with availability limited especially outside of Japan.
This is a vintage style athletic tee from Warehouse’s main line. Design is meant to evoke sports shirts kids would wear in physical education classes in US schools. The logo references a particular school and its mascot, while the box in the center was meant for the student to write their name. None of this is particularly necessary now, but the design has endured and become a classic piece of vintage Americana.
Being Warehouse they have further elevated the tee with high quality heavy weight construction throughout. Fabric has an excellent texture to it where the knit is pleasantly uneven. The shirt uses loopwheel construction, basically a tubular knit with no side seams. This is a nod to vintage clothing manufacturing, where it was common to produce tubular fits back in the day. Body is gray while the arms are 3/4 length and done in black for a very nice contrast. Hem has a slight curve to it as well. In all we have a quality, timeless design that never goes out of style. These shirts are built to last as well and will only get better with wear.
Size is labeled a large and fits more like a standard medium. I measure the chest at 20”, shoulders at 18”, length at 26” and sleeves at 16” from the shoulder. The shirt comes in very good shape with no holes, tears or stains. Made in Japan.
Shipping from Japan to anywhere will be $24.