We’re excited to be carrying Carhartt Work In Progress at Nordstrom, one of the foundational streetwear brands going back to the 1990s. Our selection includes classic Carhartt WIP items like their coach’s jacket, shirt jacket, and anorak – and other subtly branded basics, all perfect for your fall/winter wardrobe.
Get into the brand below, and for bonus fashion points, read the essay “Put to Work” from the amazing book The Carhartt WIP Archive. The essay is by Gary Warnett, a writer whose blog we read on the reg. For anyone remotely interested in streetwear and workwear, both his blog and the essay we’ve excerpted below are required reading.
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The briefest history of Carhartt WIP begins with Carhartt, the legendary workwear brand which started in Michigan making rugged clothing around the turn of the last century. As with competitors like Levi’s, Carhartt gained style cache in the middle of the century. Carhartt WIP eventually came along as an independent European licensee in 1996, to market casual clothes to the kids of that generation which had seen workwear become cool.
Building sincere relationships over time in rap, dance music, and life-style sports, Carhartt WIP is now known as a staple brand with its own cultural heft, and as collaborator with some of the biggest names in fashion like A.P.C. and Junya Watanabe.
For the style nerds out there, “Put to Work,” is a deep dive into one of streetwear’s antecedent and intersecting fashion movements: workwear. Shout out to Carhartt WIP for letting us scan these pages. As far as we know, this writing exists nowhere else on the Internet.
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