It's actually our grandfather's name on our mother's side.
Originally I was just making jeans for myself.
I had this pair of jeans that I really loved and I sacrificed them, ripped them apart and
made it the first pattern and then realized that, hey, you can't just do that, you know,
there's a lot more to done.
So I kind of went through the rigors of understanding how that worked and then I tried to scale
it down and then Dave had a pair of jeans that he loved and John had a pair of jeans
that he loved.
I've probably made before we got the cut probably like 30 or 40 pairs, until like three or four
hours of pop.
Yeah.
Bug jeans, you know.
That's totally unwearable.
You just like it doesn't fit, you know.
It's horribly defeating.
There was definitely some early times when we wanted to give up and be like, this is
impossible.
But eventually we figured it out.
We all wear different hats all the time, it's just the three of us, so we had to kind of
make do.
And Dave's always doing something different.
Dave will be filing a business license and then stamping a lot of the tags the next day.
John's going to New York, me with the wraps and stuff.
John and I are making fun of Mike and Mike crying.
I'm not crying.
No, it's me sewing and there's these two clowns going off on something.
I love going through all the corny, like bad 70s outlaw biker movies.
And even as far back as to like Marlon Brando, the Wildlands, 50s, all the mints they wear,
like all the leather hats, this classic Harley Bates and these like motorcycle products.
And when we say that, you know, like one day I want to make like the best leather jacket.
Pennsylvania is really working class.
If you're looking for those garments, it's pretty easy to find, you know, you go to your
local turf store.
And so a lot of inspiration would come from finding those garments, looking at them, seeing
the functionality of them.
The reason jeans are what they are is because they serve a very specific function.
We've kind of tried to eliminate a lot of the unnecessary fluff and flare and just have
a jean that's strictly for function.
Most of my experience and love for the eras, you know, different era of denim is mostly
studied by the equipment used.
It's become such a huge aspect of how we construct our jeans that it's almost become how I would
go about designing one.
So a lot of like the details on our pants have come out of the equipment that we have.
The hardest part for us, I think, is getting the right gear because it's very specialized
equipment and just filtering through all of that equipment has been certainly the hardest
part.
A few blocks ahead of all of our friends have businesses.
My buds are right around the corner and they got their motorcycle shop, so I'm starting
to like dig this neighborhood.
Right now with the current state of Americana, it's like everybody wants to appear as handmade,
but I don't think there will be that many more companies like us that make everything,
you know, we would never outsource that.
Even as this business grows, everything will happen in this building under our supervision
or the next building or this whole building, but it'll be ours and we'll be there watching
and making sure that everything is as it should be.
We certainly make jeans, but jeans is not all we do.
Obviously we do a lot of leather goods and I think the most important thing that we like
is not just making jeans, but just making items and goods and kind of bringing back a lot of
old stuff we love.
And not taking it too seriously.
Not taking it too seriously.
I hate seriousness and both everything else.
