Just when you thought you had seen it all . . . (Warning: Not for the fainthearted)

[navetsea]

Even Bates…

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united colors of benetton was a plague to the eyes, several government buildings in my city were painted that way.

 

[Canuck Panda]

1990s In Living Colors. Brings back good memories. But not as leather jackets unfortunately. T shirts ok.

 

[Craig from Craigslist]

Even Bates…

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[JMax]

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My first thought was that it looked like a box of cereal for kids. This is better.

 

[Jasonissm]

A colourful design Vanson!

 

[Monitor]

Somebody should tell Ship John guy that the denim shirt has already been invented.

 

[Jasonissm]

Somebody should tell Ship John guy that the denim shirt has already been invented.

And the 5 pocket jean has been around for quite some time already too!

 

[ton312]

The Free Wheelers San Bernardino:

Cool thing is you can exit this jacket just like a cicada and leave it stuck to a tree.

 

[Will Zach]

There is something abhorrent in this.

 

[ton312]

There is something abhorrent in this.

LOL. There really is. Even the triangle bits can’t save it.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

Lovechild of Edward Scissorhands and Hydra

 

[Jasonissm]

Yet another streetwear brand's take on a leather flight jacket... Why is "garbage bag" always the intended fit with these, I don't get it...

 

[ton312]

Yet another streetwear brand's take on a leather flight jacket... Why is "garbage bag" always the intended fit with these, I don't get it...

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Man the 8 million rear pleats and blooming onion sleeves….it’s like they found the worst ever fit pic of an A-2 and made a caricature of it.

 

[GHT]

A colourful design Vanson!

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Got to love those multicoloured creations.



Captain America failed the audition!

 

[Brutus]

Vanson, how could you?



https://www.ebay.com/itm/1756160664...aTafYA5T5C&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[Spiney]

 

[Monitor]

Cringe is painful. The only thing worse than the company are their fans.

 

[navetsea]

Somebody should tell Ship John guy that the denim shirt has already been invented.

and each of his future client should pay for his design fee fully, each and everyone of them.

 

[barnabus]

Cringe is painful. The only thing worse than the company are their fans.

I've looked up that jacket because I've never heard of it before.

People are fighting for a space in the queue to get a waxed cotton jacket in 2026?

And it's an ordinary worker-style jacket in an uncomfortably -heavy fabric?

What's Ship John and why is everyone crazy for their jacket please?

 

[Monitor]

I've looked up that jacket because I've never heard of it before.

People are fighting for a space in the queue to get a waxed cotton jacket in 2026?

And it's an ordinary worker-style jacket in an uncomfortably -heavy fabric?

What's Ship John and why is everyone crazy for their jacket please?

It's the mindbogglingly craziest thing ever and one of the best examples of the power of social media - Instagram, in this case - that I have ever witnessed.

Ship John started off as... Nothing. Web-page selling a couple of leather wallets, the most basic, folded kind & some beanies, story of which you can read here...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/aj9s70
Anyway, it was one amongst dozens of such stores that popped up at the time (and arguably, one of the shittier ones) that woulda faded into obscurity within a year had the guy who runs it - Mike I think his name is? - not been a marketing genius. He began posting photos, stories of that hipster wannabe back-to-the-land lifestyle (aesthetic, as kids would call it nowadays), y'know, sunsets, forest, axes, jeans, choir-coats, baseball hats, dogs, dirty old motorcycles with taped head-light, "simpler times"... You know the drill. And he was good at it. Also, making himself the main character of these stories was a good call, too because of his personal style that's just right at the edge of being edgy, while never really crossing it into self-parody, thus sittin' just right with either crowd.

Right around that time, they began introducing clothes. Hard to say why, though. As you can see, they've got a couple of the most basic, uninspired shirts & T-shirts, a pair of jeans and one canvas jacket - The Wills.

The Wills is in no way special. It is a simplified version of Carhartt's & Key Imperial's 1960's chore-coat that would've had the same fate as the beanies, had it not been for Mike's raw, natural talent at Instagram.

Guy spent a few weeks rolling around the dirt in this jacket, posted a few photos and next thing you know, hordes of bearded guys in flannel shirts and baseball caps wanted in on it. Not the jacket. Nobody in the world buys this jacket because they want a boring-ass, mustard chore-coat. Nobody wants to do any actual labor wearing a $600 jacket. No. They buy it because they want to be Mike.

And the most ironic thing is that Mike, the owner of Ship John, is a pure businessman. White-collar, a tie and a suit, "Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark..." business card businessman.
They're now stocking big time brands like Wesco, Good Art HLYWD, $300+ axes that are actually sold-out) and they even got Langlitz making the leather version of the jacket... And people are buying into it, paying hundreds for their place in a years-long imaginary, gimmick waiting list so that they can get the most basic, boring, unflattering canvas jacket that shouldn't cost more than $59.99.

So there you have it. Ship John is a tale of the American dream and the power of social media. And nothing more. And nothing less...