今となっては専務以外は児島以外で生まれたメンバーが集まるTCB
かつて児島のジーンズの縫製工場と言えば地場産業と言って学生服と作業着を作る技術から派生して作られる地元の家業が多かったと思います。
現に私も20代で縫製工場を作った時は『お父さんが縫製工場？』って聞かれる事が多かった記憶が有ります。
ただ、あれから時代が変わり、私個人的には地場産業の定義を変える必要が有ると思っています。
地元の人がたまたま親ガチャで従事する時代は終わり、
『その土地に集まり、その土地でしか作れない事をするのがこれからの地場産業』
それはジーンズに限らず野菜や果物、お酒すべてだと思います。
もちろん業種に寄っては閉鎖的な地域や産業もまだまだ有るんだと思いますが児島に関しては、元々集団就職等で住み始めた方も多く他所者でも気にして無い？という印象が有ります。

私は逆によそ者だからこその目線を大事にしています。
地元の会社の中には『田舎なのを恥ずかしがってたり手作りなのを隠してる？』
って思った事が多かったんですが海が有って山が有ってジーンズが作れる場所って最高だよなって思います。
まぁ何処に生まれたって好きな場所に行って好きな事をすれば良いと思います。

Now, all members of TCB, except for the managing director, were born outside of Kojima.

In the past, jeans sewing factories in Kojima were local industries, and many of them were local family businesses derived from the techniques of making school uniforms and work clothes.

In fact, I remember that when I opened a sewing factory in my 20s, I was often asked, “Is your father working at a sewing factory?”　However, times have changed since then, and I personally think that the definition of local industry needs to be redefined.

The era in which local people just happened to work for their parents is over,
“Local industries from now on will be about gathering in a place and doing things that can only be made in that place.”

Of course, there are still many closed areas and industries depending on the industry, but in Kojima, there are many people who originally started living there through group employment, and I get the impression that they don’t care about outsiders.

On the contrary, I value the perspective of an outsider.
Some local companies are ashamed of being from the countryside or hiding the fact that their products are handmade. ”
I often thought that, but I think it’s great to be in a place with the sea and mountains where jeans can be made.
Well, no matter where you’re born, you should go wherever you want and do what you want.