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LR14 ’50s WESTERN DENIM “SAWTOOTH” SHIRT

Providence
  • Made in Japan from fabric weaving to assembly by skilled artisans

Construction
  • ’50s Western Denim “Sawtooth” Shirt
  • Original fit
  • Long and curved shirt tails
  • Two pronged front and back yoke
  • 100% cotton thread in two tones
  • Two, two-pronged flap pockets
  • Octagonal mother-of-pearl snap buttons
  • One contrasting round turquoise snap button randomly placed on each cuff
  • Small needle gauge with feed off the arm chainstitch machine
  • One needle stitchwork on pockets, wrist and collars
  • High Stitch Per Inch (SPI)
  • Characteristic unlined pointed collar

Fabric
  • 10oz indigo denim
  • Woven in Japan

Colourways
  • Indigo with varying shades of blue throughout fabric

Story

The LR14 is the brand’s first denim shirt, and the second shirt introduced to our shirt repertoire, joining the LR12 Chambray shirt. The 1950s western shirt was nicknamed the ‘sawtooth shirt’ because of its pointed pockets that resembled the teeth of a saw. Though this was the inspiration for the LR14, the precise inspiration was not the most widely familiar version of the western denim shirt – the one with single pointed pocket flaps – but rather, the point of departure was the original double pointed pocket flap iteration of the ‘sawtooth’ that came before. Though it is the single pointed pocket that became archetypal for the western shirt, paradoxically, for our founder, it’s the two pointed pockets that make the shirt more modern for today.

Providence
  • Made in Japan from fabric weaving to assembly by skilled artisans

Construction

It’s the details that make the LR14 special, including the two-pointed yoke panels on the front and back of the shirt, the pointed collar, and the long and curved shirt tails.The silver framed mother-of-pearl octagonal buttons are a key variation on the round buttons characteristic of the period, chosen by our founder because the shape evokes octagonal headed bolts – a reference to the brand’s roots in a love of mechanics. These buttons are used throughout, with one exception: one contrasting round turquoise snap button is randomly placed on each cuff. The LR14 is assembled with 100% cotton thread in contrasting tones, which fade beautifully with wear, wash and sun exposure.

Fabric

For the fabric we chose a 10oz indigo denim, which is soft for effortless everyday wear and layering, but with a certain characteristic of rigidity and crispness that allows the fabric to form a subtle structure around the wearer. The dying and weaving processes, observing period techniques, results in a pleasing unevenness in the indigo tones throughout the fabric.

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