Brwnsclub

Product Development

Project

Self-initiated

Type

Garment Design, Tech Packs, Sampling, Production

Year

2025 to 2026

About

Three pieces designed from reference through to sampling. I wrote the tech packs, sourced the manufacturers, and managed every round of corrections. They’re in the order I made them, because the first one went wrong and everything after it is what I did about that.

Pullover

Inspiration

The reference was 90s and early 2000s training pullovers. Soccer club training kit mostly, plus vintage MLB and NFL pieces.

Worked through a few concepts, finalised one, and wrote the tech pack from there.

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It was a detailed piece built from scratch, and it was also my first, so almost everything needed explaining twice. Two months of back and forth with the manufacturer before the sample arrived.

Learnings

I liked the sample, but there was plenty I'd change on the next round. Stitching quality, the fabric, the neckline, and the sleeve fit was noticeably off. I wrote the fit comments and learned more from that one piece than from everything before it.

Then I paused it. It needed a level of control I didn't have yet, so I went and built that on something simpler.

Waffle Tee

Inspiration

I wanted an everyday staple. Nothing beats a white tee, but I wanted it to feel like something rather than nothing, so I went to vintage thermals and henleys and landed on a waffle knit. Cropped and boxy rather than close to the body.

Designed it, wrote the tech pack, and this time tested the fabric before committing. That came straight out of the last piece i made.

I wanted the detail to carry it rather than the styling. Waffle knit for texture, a V-insert at the neck, ribbed collar, double hems for a bit of weight, and a clean embroidered BC monogram at the chest.

Learnings

Testing the logo on the actual fabric before committing saved me a lot of time and money.

I also wore the sample for a couple of weeks before signing off on production, checking how the fabric breathed, whether it held its shape, and how it actually looked on.

Cap

Inspiration

I've always worn ballcaps, and vintage on-field baseball caps were the obvious place to start. Simple shapes, a monogram at the front, nothing else going on. The BC monogram was already built for exactly that, so it finally had somewhere to live. Two colourways this time.

I also designed a woven label for it, pulling from vintage baseball lettering and old woven labels, to give the cap a proper ballcap feel.

The first sample came back close, but not there. I wrote up the comments and took them into a second sampling round. With the four faults annotated on the sample photo:

01 Navy off colour standard

02 Monogram contrast on navy

03 Strap trim quality

04 Visor curvature

All four went into the second sampling round and came back right. Seeing both colourways finished was the first time a piece landed exactly the way I'd pictured it.

Learnings

The biggest lesson from this piece: don't be afraid to iterate. The first sample wasn't right, and it would've been easy to let it slide. Sending it back for a second round made the difference between something okay and something I'm actually proud of.