The new official TOJ thread, 2011 - Page 1392

I am about to head downtown to meet up with TOJ folks in NY hopefully, many jawns in one place I hope.

well, the machines for making the jackets are a good deal stronger and the needles are really sharp, so getting through the lamb is like butter, and the calf and horse is a bit harder - but the real reason they don't like working with that stuff is because of what happens when you turn the seams back and then stitch back over - the seams gotta reverse back out and lay flat, which the stiffer stuff doesn't do. That is the hard part. That, and the people making them are obviously trying to make something that looks nice and shows their work off, and they dislike the way the shoulders are stiff when the jackets are boxfresh. That's why they love the lamb, always able to turn out nice product that way and people stay happy.

also, successful TOJ meetup was successful. Got to meet artishard, bows1, willy and BEAR JEW, Charly and homi29, KilltheDJ, indesertum, tween spirit, Spaghetti and merry burger (from sufu) and leonard leroy, plus some non internet-ing people. We ate, drank, and were merry.