monarch milwaukee

[Americanaaa Mark]

http://www.monarch-milwaukee.com/collection.php

is this a reproduction project?

has anybody seen these jackets before?

I emailed them but didn't get a reply.

 

[willyto]

Holy cow! The jackets are horrible, nothing to do with the original ones that are amazing.

 

[ProteinNerd]

If their most recent catalogue is Fall/Winter 2015 I'm guessing they went out of business?

 

[BobJ]

As I was looking through their collection, I came across this one, and thought, "I could see our Michael wearing this... in fact, I bet he's already got one!"

 

[Worf]

Yeah... looks like an orphan site. Some of the designs are not too bad, but seeing there are no prices on there I don't think they made it.

Worf

 

[BobJ]

They do have some horrible designs, but these two are kinda nice:

...as long as you can take off that shawl collar

 

[Edward]

Ha, yes.... the.... built in hoody?... of the D pocket looks odd to me.

I'd say these are less repro, more in the vein of something like Nigel Cabourn ,where they take an original design and then play with it to make it their own thing. Unfortunately, while certainly original, most of them are far from aesthetically pleasing.... I suspect being, ultimately, neither fish nor fowl, they didn't find a market....

Tell you what, though: for a design I never used to like, I'm increasingly taken with that Monza style....