Hardwear Highlight: Carpenter Pant
With tradeshows on hold, Carved in Blue is putting its capsule collection out one digital post at a time.
This week, we’re highlighting the Carved in Blue® Carpenter pant.
“At first, only workmen wore carpenter pants.”
The origins of the carpenter pants are strongly linked with the Bib Overall. Most earlier carpenter pants were overalls amended, without the front bib.
Carpenter pants were usually made from denim or duck canvas. Canvas being the material in more durable styles, and colors may vary; white and beige are other popular colors. They had a loose cut, to allow for a wide range of motion, and were most likely worn over existing pants. Some earlier variations had pockets with openings so you could access the under garment. Carpenter pants were characterized by their wide variety of pockets, tabs and loops.
Carpenter jeans are often worn by construction workers and carpenters, hence the name, to carry their tools so that their hands can be kept free yet the tools are still easily accessible.
Most carpenter jeans are made for function, not fashion.
Carpenter jeans were quite popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s hip hop scene, especially those by the Tommy Hilfiger brand who placed their trademark logo on the hammer loop.
For the Carved in Blue® hardware collection, the ENDRIME® team got their main inspiration from ENDRIME® hybrid Carpenter.
Atlantic Mills based in Thailand was chosen for their fabric. One of the strongest denim mills in the industry, we were excited to use their denim. The denim has a loose weave tension and has a light shade indigo, perfect for a Carpenter pant.
The fabric content: 31% TENCEL™ x REFIBRA™/ 38% COTTON / 31% RECYCLED COTTON
Key details in our Carved in Blue® Carpenter pant were:
- Clean construction pocket bearer
- Angled front pockets
- Branded ‘Carved in Blue®’ washer and burr rivets
- Tailored belts loops(which go into top of waistband)
- Branded ‘Carved in Blue®’ buttons
- Printed internals hand stamped denim mills to identify each garment with TENCEL™ DENIM story
- Leather backed buttons + rivets
- Branded ‘Carved in Blue®’collaboration woven label
- Chain stitch waistband construction
- Period correct ecru stitching
- One piece continuous fly construction thin to large construction
- Clean finished Run and Felled double needle chainstitch seams construction on legs
- Hem finished with Union Special 43200G single needle chainstitch
- Period correct mis-stitching on all pockets
- Clean finished Run and Felled double needle chainstitch seams on back rise and yoke seam
- Branded ‘Carved in Blue®’ collaboration leather patch
- Tool pocket
- Added extra strength pocketing reinforcement on back pockets
The Jeanologia team washed the garment based both ENDRIME® and Jeanologia Archive. This garment got a EIM low impact score of 27.
Check out our Carpenter pant section on Issuu.