Crafted from mid-weight 10oz loopwheel knitted cotton, this sweatshirt combines vintage charm with modern comfort. Featuring a brushed loopback interior, it offers exceptional warmth and softness. The unique fabric is produced on rare Tsuriami-ki machines in Wakayama, Japan, ensuring durability and a distinct washed look reminiscent of classic American styles. The thoughtfully designed gusset details add reinforcement, making it an ideal choice for both active and leisurely days, blending functionality with timeless style.
From the brand: The sweatshirt, born in the 1920s in the USA, was initially conceived as practical athletic wear by Benjamin Russell Jr., a football player dissatisfied with itchy wool jerseys. Its comfortable cotton fleece soon attracted non-athletes, escalating its popularity in American colleges.
This sweatshirt, made from mid-weight 10oz loopwheel knitted cotton, features a brushed loopback French terry, making it warmer and softer than its unbrushed loopback counterpart. Loopwheel machines, which produce this tubular constructed fabric, are renowned for their slow knitting pace, producing only a single meter of fabric per hour. However, this low thread tension technique is what sets them apart from contemporary manufacturing methods and creates an exceptional and distinctive fabric. The resulting material is reminiscent of hand-woven textiles and possesses a unique stretchy quality and washed look, similar to old American sweatshirts that can only be reproduced on a loopwheel knitting machine. This loopwheel sweat is knitted in Wakayama, Japan, using extremely rare machines known in Japan as Tsuriami-ki, and requires rare skills and techniques, exclusively for The Real McCoy's.
Unlike mass-produced sweatshirts, The Real McCoy's use different yarns across the layers of the fabric to achieve optimal finish, density, and comfort. Like the best vintage sweatshirts, the gusset details featured here have been sewn in. While this is a time-consuming process, it adds a layer of reinforcement, prevents the neck from stretching, and acts similarly to a sweatband.
10oz Loopwheel Cotton Fabric
Cotton Thread Construction
Made in Japan on Vintage Tsuriami-ki Machines
Some shrinkage expected when washed
