Joe McCoy
MC24118
Loopwheel Cotton
MQ NAVY
The hooded sweatshirt was originally created in the 1930s by stitching hoods to existing sweatshirt designs as a functional solution for construction workers enduring freezing New York winters, and they were quickly adopted by US military for training exercises and physical education classes.
This pullover hoodie, in a relatively lightweight 9oz. Loopwheel knitted cotton is an unbrushed loopback French Terry, making it more breathable than its brushed counterpart. Loopwheel machines on which this tubular constructed fabric is made, are renowned for their slow knitting pace, producing only a single meter of fabric per hour. However, this low thread tension technique is what sets them apart from contemporary manufacturing methods and creates an exceptional and distinctive fabric. The resulting material is reminiscent of hand-woven textiles and possesses a unique stretchy quality and washed look of old American sweatshirts that can only be reproduced on a loopwheel knitting machine. This loopwheel sweat is knitted in Wakayama, Japan, using extremely rare machines, known in Japan as Tsuriami-ki, and even rarer skill and technique, exclusively for The Real McCoy’s.
Unlike mass-produced sweatshirts, The Real McCoy’s use different yarns across the layers of the sweatshirt to achieve the optimal finish, density and comfort.
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