Mike Faherty: Replicating vintage clothing requires rigorous garment engineering
Mike Faherty · Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores. · Oct 13, 2025 · at 12:49
Faherty Brand co-founder Mike Faherty reflects on his early design training at Ralph Lauren's Double RL division, analyzing vintage workwear.
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“You gotta dissect Every element of that fabric, from the yarn size, to how the yarn's finished, to the finishing of the fabric, to how densely it's woven, to then when it's sewn, like, what kind of stitching do you do to have it be, like, super durable, or crinkle in certain ways, and then how do you wash it to break it in, and so, like, I just started becoming an engineer, really. You become a garment engineer at that point”
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