🧦 2024 Socks and Take Back Bags
Arvin Goods Take Back, Nake‘u Awai Fashion, Chilean Land Fill, Lloyd Kahn Interview, The Black Keys + Beck
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We are in week two of 2024, and coming off our most successful holiday season ever. This means more activity for our customer service team. We are using this week’s email to share a few things about how we handle our products.
Firstly, we aim to make the highest quality goods, in the best way possible. But let’s be honest they are socks, sometimes there may be a loose thread, you need a different style/size, or a toe pokes through😉, etc… Anytime you have a question or a need with our product do not hesitate to reach out, we will exchange, replace, or provide some other solution to keep you moving, and get you in a new pair. This even goes for the items you may have opened or even worn. If something is lightly used we will work with you to get them donated to a local organization that can use the products, and we will still get you sorted with a new pair, or a refund if needed.
Adding to customer service, we have built an end-of-product life solution too. Because in the end, at some point, socks will wear out, this is why we partnered with For Days to offer the Take Back Bag. When you hit the end of the road with clothing, whether they are Arvin Goods or any others, order up a TBB. Once you have filled it and registered it you get a $15 credit to our store. This month we are sending a bag with each order for free (MSRP $10). Please try it out. Just fill the bag, register it, and you will get the shipping label QR code, and the code for your credit on the store. We also offer them in a subscription of 30, 60, 90-day intervals.
Hope you enjoy today’s Clean Up. We would love to hear from you. Comment here on substack hit us on social, or email us at info@arvingoods.com. Have a great week. Cheers,
Harry & Dustin (Team AG) ✌️🧦
Stories Of The Week…
Industry
A Look at the Legacy of Nake'u Awai, the Godfather of Hawaiian Fashion - Harpers Bazaar
At 85, Native Hawaiian fashion designer Nake‘u Awai still insists on the reason he got into the business: “My intention was to design clothes for local people.”
For 50 years, Awai has remained steadfast in his raison d’être, designing garment after garment in his studio-cum-retail shop in Kapālama, an Oahu neighborhood steeped in the islands’ culture and history (iconic eatery Helena’s Hawaiian Food and the Bishop Museum are blocks away), for generations of local families to wear, while quietly creating the urtext for Hawaiian fashion.
Awai would never own up to such a legacy, though.🏝️🩳 🌊
Environment
A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames - Gizmodo
On the morning of June 12, 2022, Ángela Astudillo, then a law student in her mid-20s, grabbed her water bottle and hopped into her red Nissan Juke. The co-founder of Dress Desert, or Desierto Vestido, a textile recycling advocacy nonprofit, and the daughter of tree farmers, Astudillo lives in a gated apartment complex in Alto Hospicio, a dusty city at the edge of the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, with her husband, daughter, bunny, and three aquatic turtles.
Exiting the compound, Astudillo pinched the wheel, pulled over next to a car on the side of the road, and greeted Bárbara Pino, a fashion professor, and three of her students, who were waiting inside…🌿👕♼
Design
An Interview with Lloyd Kahn - Outsiders store
It wouldn’t be a wild overstatement to say that the Whole Earth Catalog might just be one of the most influential publications to come out of the counterculture movement.
First published in 1968, this printed database of items and ideas—featuring information on pretty much everything you could ever need, to help you do pretty much anything you could ever want—was a vital resource of the pre-internet age, famously described by Steve Jobs as ‘Google in paperback form’.
Lloyd Kahn was one of the key figures behind it. As ‘shelter editor’, he was responsible for the parts of the catalogue devoted to buildings—writing about the tools and methods needed to put a roof over your head.🏠🧰
Entertainment
The Black Keys Come Full Circle With Beck on New Single 'Beautiful People (Stay High)' - Los Angeles Magazine
The first rock star Patrick Carney ever met was Beck back in 1996, long before he would become famous as one half of garage rock duo the Black Keys. Just two years shy of 30 years later, Carney's career appears to be having a full circle moment with the release of new single "Beautiful People (Stay High)" featuring Beck himself.
Carney, the drummer and synth wizard for the 4-time Grammy winning rock act known for catchy hooks, crunchy guitars and danceable beats, gathered just 17 music industry insiders at the legendary Village Studios Thursday afternoon, hours before the single drop, to preview five tracks off of the Black Keys' upcoming album Ohio Players. 🥁🎸✌️