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Sweat Suit

Moving on from Joggers1999, I posted polls via my Insta and TikTok accounts to see if there was any interest in people buying a full sweat-suit with 1999 logos on pants and sweater. A design feaure would be concealed pockets as often pockets on suits like this are baggy and open.

I offered a few colour-ways as choices. Red and Black was the most popular in the poles. This time I used a sample company from China to to make the sample suit. Here's the sample that arrived 10 days later. 




The response to the sweat suit sample was excellent. I dropped the suit at the beginning of September and received fiften orders at £75 a set. Here is a video the manafacture sent to me of the sweat suit in production-


What I was most proud about this design was the concealed pockets on the rear and the overlap on the sidepockets, this brings a higher design status to the the common lounge pants.

Here's the video of  the final design from te manafacturer who was pleased with the outcome of the pockets-



A proud moment on this design was the rapper/producer RyderWho contacting me about buying one of the sweat tops, he is now a follower of my brand and my designs. When his album comes out at the beginning of next year I hope he'll wear my brand/designs in his music videos.











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