私がジーンズを好きになった理由は一つでは無くて、多感な時期に様々な衝撃を受けれた事が理由ですが、間違いなく衝撃の代表と言っても良いのが1994年に放送されたドラマ『若者のすべて』

私と同世代の方で、あのドラマが1番好きという方、実は多いのでは無いでしょうか？
もうTCBjeansを始めた当初から若者のすべて好きなのは公表しており12月のお店のBGMはドラマの1話と最終回にのみ流れるBGM1曲のみを流し続けるという他のスタッフからしたら迷惑以外の何者でも無い時間を過ごすのがクリスマスシーズンの過ごし方でした。

公表後、あのドラマの話になると、タケシが穿いてたチノパンを作って下さい。
という声は多かったのは事実です。

でも好きすぎてすぐには作れなかった。
憧れの回収という便利な言葉を使って雪柄Sweatを作った事も有りますが、憧れってもしかして全部回収しても良いのかな？という自問自答。
ドラマが好きな人なら分かると思いますが、彼らにサンタクロースが来たのか来なかったのか。
それを考えた時に一生サンタクロースが来ないままにするのも良いのかなと思ったのは事実です。

そして少しドラマの切り口を少し変えて
主題歌に使われたTomorrow never Knows
このドラマをキッカケに知ったMr Chirdrenを聴いて、後にこのリフの元ネタはこの曲からなんだとかこのドラムの叩き方はこの曲の影響を受けてるのかな？って思いながらBeatlesを聴くのが楽しかった。
90’s年代に青春時代を過ごした私たちの世代って実は、直接アメリカやイギリスに影響を受けてる訳では無くて、
アメリカやイギリスに影響を受けまくった大人たちがカッコよかったのかもなって。この年齢になって思います。

憧れの回収という言葉を気に入り
良くも悪くもここ数年便利に使ってきました。
でもきっと一回の人生で憧れなんてそんなに無いと思うので憧れの回収はきっとこれで最後。
大谷君も憧れるのは止めましょうってWBCの決勝戦前に言ってましたよね。

私の最後の憧れの回収です。
宜しくお願いします。

Many things in my life have influenced me to get to like jeans but one of them must be the Japanese drama series, Wakamono no subete (All about youngster), broadcasted in 1994.
I know it’s known only among Japanese but let me talk about it just a little.

I would say there must be many of you in my generation who like the TV series the best.
I talked about it many times on our blog since the beginning of the TCB brand and I always repeatedly play the main song every December, which my staff get completely bored of but
that’s how I’ve spent my Christmas season every year. And every December, our JP customers asked TCB to make the chino pants which the main actor, Takeshi, wears in the series.

But somehow I couldn’t feel like it. Maybe I liked it too much and it’s like you keep your favorite food on a dish till the end.
TCB released Snow patterned sweatshirts before but that was also the one coming from the same series, which was done completely as my own self-satisfaction.
As a result, they got sold out in a day and I was relieved that many of you had the same liking and this will be the last time for me to do another collection of what I used to aspire to get but couldn’t afford when I was a kid.

Let me also speak about its main song. When I was 14, I was so thrilled at the song of Japanese band, Mr. Children, that has quite a few songs with the same title as the songs of the Beatles. The JP band got heavily influenced by the Beatles and I really enjoyed listening to them and finding some phrases, guitar riffs, drum beats in their songs inspired from the Beatles. The 90’s was a huge part of my youth and at that time I thought the US cultures and the UK cultures were what influenced me a lot in many ways including fashion and jeans but maybe that’s partly wrong. Now some decades have passed and I came to think that I might have admired the Japanese adults of those days who had been heavily influenced by the overseas cultures. They looked so fresh and cool to me.

My old friends always tell me ” Hey Hajime, you haven’t changed at all since junior high except for your body size and beard. And you still love jeans and that’s your work now”
I understand Mr.Children sounds a bit funny in English but I might look like an adult with a child’s heart in my friends’ eyes. When you were a kid, you all surely had some dreams and hopes but time and reality might have faded them out of your life. There might be a day or two in a year when you gaze out the window thinking about nothing, see a random kid on the street with your eyes following what they do, you might unconsciously cast those dreams and hopes on him or her knowing it’s completely nonsense and meaningless. I’m not being arrogant or anything but luckily I can now make things that 14 year old Hajime boy longed for back then. Hope our new release will make you guys with a child heart as excited as me!

I liked the word, the collection of my past admiration and used it a lot for TCB new products in the last few years but I think I’ve done them all.
Shohei Otani said to the team before the WBC match against the USA, “Stop admiring them” and it’s the last one for me, vintage 41 khaki!