Made for a city where it rains every other day
Three-layer rainwear, cut and taped by hand in Kanazawa. Scroll, and the camera walks up to the coat and goes inside the cloth.
Sizes 1 to 5, in kihada, ai and sumi. Tested for twenty minutes in our rain room before it gets a number.
- Hood
- Storm flap
- Pockets
- Cuffs
- Back
- Cloth
- Layers
- Out
6 countries
Five pieces. Three colours.
The same three-layer cloth in every piece, each one lined in kihada yellow. Pick a piece, then a colour.
Nine people, one long table, about forty coats a week
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Every coat is laid out on an eight-metre table in our old teahouse and cut by hand, one layer at a time. Offcuts go into the hats.
38pattern pieces2 hto cut one coat -
Kihada bark simmers in small batches, rain or not. No two linings come out the same yellow, which is why every coat has a number.
6 hsimmer3dips per batch -
Eleven stitches to the inch, then a 13 mm clear tape pressed over every seam with hot air and two rollers. A Machi Coat carries 4.2 metres of it.
4.2 mof tape150°hot air - 04Twenty minutes in the rain roomDay 3
Twenty minutes under the nozzles
Worn where it rains the most
2,399 mm, on 173 days. Every bar is one day.
of rain falls on Kanazawa in an average year
days of the year it rains here, more than almost anywhere in Japan
water column our three-layer cloth holds back
of free repairs, at the atelier or by post
Notes from wet places
Before you buy
Something else? Write to atelier@shigure.jp. A person in the atelier answers within a day.
Take your usual jacket size. Our coats are cut with room for a thick knit underneath. If it's wrong, we exchange it for free within 30 days.
Machine wash at 30°C with a liquid soap, no softener. Tumble dry on low for 20 minutes to wake the water repellent up again.
Seams, zips, snaps and small tears. Bring it to the atelier or post it to us. We pay the return shipping inside Japan.
Yes, to 31 countries. Orders leave Kanazawa within two days and duties are included in the price at checkout.
The number is written inside the collar after the rain room test. It tells us who cut it, which dye batch it came from and when it was tested.
Try one on in the rain
Come to the atelier and we will walk you out into the garden, under the eaves, in whatever weather Kanazawa has that day. Or we ship two sizes and you send one back.