Varsity Jacket
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Look at the process that goes into making some of the pieces you wear or will get to wear one day. You can see sketches, and updated alterations that goes into achieving a final look. View samples made before the final, what went wrong or what went right. Look at what we altered and what we kept on the final piece. Whats here can either already be in the making or made for experimental value. Either way you get to see whats being made and done. Look around and enjoy.
Description
Originally the Jacket was suppose to have two patches, one on the top left chest another on the right side. After sampling one jacket we realized that it gave the jacket a very plain look, and with a lot of unused space on the front end of the jacket. So we decided to add a few more patches on the front, that includes the Echelon Fabrications “Big E” patch, and the two ghost patches. The ghost patch idea was inspired by the shape of the “pac-man ghost”. The faces on the ghost display happiness and sorrow, which explains the feelings that went into making this jacket. Somtimes you feel good about what you make other times you hate what you create. The sleeves on the jacket is the best part we wanted to originally have the words “Echelon” in bigger font going down across the entire sleeve but, felt that it would better suit the overall look by making them smaller to fit the back of jacket. The letters were also supposed to be colored depending on the jacket base color. This may change in future color way drops. to continue on the sleeves the undearm part was orignally suppose to be satin but when doing so on a sample the look did not fit, so we decided to upgrade the sleeves to shiny velour material. The jacket was also suppose to orignally have ribbed sleeves and a collar, we changed that and opted out for a velour collar with piping, and knitted ribbing to give it a different look. The back of the jacket also had a few changes to it origanally the big ‘Echelon Fabrication Leaf” logo was suppose to be embroidered or a patch we decided to change that with a rubber print logo on the, followed with our echelon signature in furry chennile patch. Overall we are happy with the out come on our jacket, and glad we can share the creative process with you we hope you enjoy this as much as we did making it. It is now done and finally here for you to look and buy, if youre interested in purchasing click here.
Velour Tracksuit
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Description
The tracksuits were made to bring back that y2k style that seemed to come back in trend. Mimicking the suits that were once worn every day by women years ago. Originally the tracksuits were to be made in just women’s styles. Due to a sizing error on one of the samples we got an idea to make a men’s version of the tracksuit. We went back and altered the design for the women’s tracksuit. Instead of a collar on the women’s tracksuit, we decided to add a hood on the back, which correlates to how these tracksuits were back in the early 2000s. We also decided to line the interior of the hood with satin material. This is to help prevent any possible frizz on hair when being worn. Glad to see the finished product come out as it did, if you’re interested in looking at it, click here. These are also available for purchase still, get them before they’re gone.
Whats to come
Here are some of the other pieces in the work, some require alterations, while others are finished and awaiting a potential drop. Get a look a what to expect from Echelon Fabrications in the future.