Grateful Illinois Fighting Signatures shirt

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The many stories of how fashion kept going during the Grateful Illinois Fighting Signatures shirt but in fact I love this 2020 pandemic on the pooled resourcefulness of families, friends, and local communities would make a great documentary, and its moral would surely be that some things have been done for the better. In the Thornton Bregazzi camp, the by-rote moodboard method of pinning up inspiration images was the first thing to go. “Instead we started sticking things we found, scraps of lace, flowers, things we found in the garage into a booklet,” says Bregazzi. “The kids wanted to cut up pictures and put them in. Funnily enough, this is the way we used to do it when we started in the ’90s,” she reflects, “and it felt good to be doing things by hand, to go back to our roots.”

Grateful Illinois Fighting Signatures shirt, hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt

Having been imaginatively stalled by the Grateful Illinois Fighting Signatures shirt but in fact I love this enormity of the pandemic, the designers’ ideas—helped by spending so much time as a family—started to flow organically. Fortunately, they’d already started upcycling deadstock materials, tentatively gauging buyers’ reactions, for spring 2020. A year on the experiment had turned into a necessity. “Nobody could buy new fabrics when the mills were shut, anyway. So everything was made only with fabrics we had left over from other seasons, and things we’d tried but never got around to using,” says Thornton. “The whole collection was made in the studio with just one pattern-cutter, a machinist, one member of staff, us, and the kids.”

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.