#194 Big Balls or 1620 Workwear?
Modern Craftsman
Modern Craftsman
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Ted De Innocentis & Josh Walker are co-founders of 1620 Workwear. They talk about the reality of the US garment industry
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https://www.instagram.com/1620usa/
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Nick Schiffer
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Tyler Grace
https://www.instagram.com/trghomeconcepts/
John Hourihan
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Music:
"Dessert" by Nate Gusakov
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, guys? Welcome back to modern craftsman Monday. Monday. Guess what? It's cyber Monday is cyber Monday, cyber Monday. |
| 0:15.4 | You guys need some last minute gifts. Guys, we're talking to today. Have a cyber Monday code, but we're not going to give it to you now, because that would, well, then you would just shut this off and go buy a bunch of stuff. |
| 0:25.6 | Wait to the end where we give you the code. John, who do we and don't listen to what I said they correct me, because I gave the wrong number on the code. Yeah, and if you do, I don't know how you're going to be leaving. You're going to be leaving some percentage points on the table. |
| 0:39.3 | John, who do we got on the podcast day? We got 16, 20 workwear local guys out of Massachusetts building workwear sweatshirts, pants, t-shirts, button downs, hats, all the above. |
| 0:53.1 | Soon to be on these to compete with Lulu lemon. $70 on these. But they're stuff that holds up well and locally made and that's that's huge. I love these guys. |
| 1:04.8 | Basically, it's it's similar to what we're doing. They're they're looking to produce things. You know, local sustainably and really putting a lot of money into research and product development. |
| 1:21.5 | And putting out a quality product that's going to wear long, not necessarily throw away type of clothing. It's more of an investment. |
| 1:28.2 | Dude, you hit the nail in the head. It's I do think that there's a lot of similarities between, you know, you guys listening what we promote and, you know, charging what you're valued. |
| 1:40.1 | But backing it up with a quality product. And that's exactly what they're doing just in a different space, which would be a peril. |
| 1:47.5 | Yeah, yeah, it's a good one. Go check out their product too. It's sweet. |
| 1:53.5 | 1620 USA dot com. |
| 1:56.5 | Podcast brought to you by duration mold and more work. There's nothing like seeing touching and kicking the tires on a product. |
| 2:02.5 | I don't like kicking tires, but hey, we'll stick with that. The folks at duration invite you to join them as well as myself, John and Tyler at the LBM Expo at the Rural Island Convention Center on Wednesday, December 8th and Thursday, December 9th. |
| 2:16.5 | Show floor hours are Wednesday, 10 to 5, Thursday, 9 to 5. |
| 2:20.5 | Johnny, Tyler and myself will be hosting the podcast on Thursday afternoon and discussing how to build your brand and business through social media. |
| 2:29.5 | For more information, simply Google LBM Expo 2021. Hope to see you there. |
| 2:37.5 | Podcast is also brought to you by Rena Run. |
| 2:42.5 | Tyler has alluded to the fact that he knows who you guys are or who Rena Run is, but has not used them yet. |
| 2:49.5 | So don't take Tyler's advice. Take John and my advice and use them. |
| 2:54.5 | John, do they craze? I think the vans like, yeah, this is probably why I can't order a van right now because they are ordering them all. |
| 3:04.5 | I mean, I strategy meeting today with our CFO and they're like, yeah, we just open an account with them. |
| 3:12.5 | You can put on your credit card and it's been set up for in the beginning, but then we set up an account with them. |
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