100% Cotton.
Made in Japan by Jackman, the Waffle-knit Mid Neck is made on a customised knitting machine and is constructed in heavy weight cotton for exceptional quality and durability.
The main body is constructed using flat seams for a neat finish and the neck, cuffs and hem have three-point decorative stitches which have been reinforced with bar tack to prevent the threads from fraying.
In their words: it has been designed and made for the ‘long-term’.
Regular fit with a mid-rise neck, a perfect mid-layer for cooler days.
Jackman's Story:
In 1949, driven by a passion for baseball, visionary Mitsugu Tanabe quit his day job and founded the Tanabe Meriyasu factory in Fukui, Japan. Inspired by the stockings of visiting American baseball teams in the years following the war, Tanabe began to create baseball stirrup stockings of exceptional quality, even inventing new machines in order to yield a result superior to anything else available. Tanabe Meriyasu soon gained a reputation for quality and craftmanship. The factory went on to supply the official training wears of the 1964 Japanese Olympic team.
The Jackman brand as it exists today is the evolution of Tanabe’s founding vision. Each piece is still crafted in the original factory, and the Jackman offering may of extended far beyond baseball stirrup stockings, but the same commitment to quality that inspired Mitsugu Tanabe remains. They even continue to use the original vintage machines; although the pace is slower than today’s machines, the quality endures.