Tender Co. 402 Two Birds Shirt - Hadal Blue Cotton Drop Cloth

Type 402 Two Birds Shirt

A further step on from the Type 401 Pleat Pocket Shirt, the Two Birds Shirt creates two

pockets with one line of pocket stitching. The pattern is cut with a large front panel

pleated into the yoke. Once this is pressed into place, a patch pocket is sewn through all

three layers of the pleat. This creates a standard hand-height patch pocket on the outside

of the shirt, but its stitch lines also hold the pleat together as a deeper chest pocket,

accessed vertically.

The fabric is cut sideways, with no shoulder seam, creating a soft biased shoulder which

stretches out and softens as the garment wears in. The shirt is sewn with all-cotton

thread and finished with dyed cotton-covered metal buttons and a Made in USA blue

label.

Cotton Drop Cloth

Woven in USA from American cotton, the main customer for this fabric is Sherwin Wil-

liams, a paint company founded in Ohio in 1866. The intended use is as drop-cloth, hard-wearing fabric to cover floors and furniture during interior painting. The fabric structure is a tightly woven left hand twill, which acts as a right hand twill when cross cut.

Flowerpot, Hadal Blue

Garment dyeing raw cotton garments accentuates the manufacturing processes, shrink-

ing the seams and bringing out latent texture from the yarn. As well as developing two

shades from natural logwood dye, clothes in this collection are offered direct dyed in

Flowerpot and Hadal Blue. Direct dyes lie over the top of the fabrics and sewing threads,

rather than reacting with the makeup of the fibres themselves, and give a slightly less uni-

form colour which shows up variations in texture and character of the garment.

Flowerpot has long been a Tender staple colour, and is the colour of terracotta, cooked

earth.

The hadal zone, named for the Greek underworld, Hades, is the deepest oceanic zone,

below the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the midnight zone and the abyss.

100% Cotton

Made in USA