🧦 The Best Socks, and a Couple Stories
Arvin Goods Socks, H&M NY is asking for you clothes, Hemp as a Building Material, Gaza Surf Club, Olivia Rodrigo Tiny Desk, Take Back Bag
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Arvin News
Happy Sunday!
Most of us in the US lost an hour last night with the start of daylight saving time. Welcome to the 23-hour day, March 10, 2024.
Our new Arvin Goods socks have been in the world now for a couple of weeks, and the feedback is starting to roll in. We are delighted to hear from folks how happy they are with the quality of what we are offering. “The comfort is amazing.” We put a lot of time and effort into this collection, and there is nothing better than some positive feedback.
Both styles are a new construction for us, it’s a general update on our classic crew sock, but we shortened the overall height of the sock, made the cuff a bit bolder at the top, and increased the weight of the terry foot bad (padding). When you hold them you can tell they are more heavy, and high-quality socks. They are still airy, and breathable so the wearer gets sturdy comfort but won’t overheat, they are perfect. They are the best socks we have ever made, and at this point, we would argue they are the best socks in the market. Seriously. The best socks in the market. Know what you buy try them out here.
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,
Team AG ✌️🧦
Stories Of The Week…
Fashion
H&M, HERON PRESTON CALL ON NEW YORKERS TO DONATE USED CLOTHING FOR A FUTURE COLLECTION - Sourcing Journal
H&M has a new partner in its circularity journey.
The Swedish fast-fashion retailer has teamed with New York-based designer, artist, DJ, consultant Heron Preston to launch H2. More than a single collaboration, H2 is a “circular innovation program underscored by a joint commitment to closing the loop” and empowering young creative talent.
H2 will launch with a New York-inspired collection that brings together new ideas of utility, durability, versatility and cultural archetypes. Many of the designs incorporate Preston’s signatures like nods to workwear and racing.
The unisex collection spans boxy reversible nylon bomber jackets, long-sleeve racing-style jerseys made from 100 percent recycled polyester and reversible cotton-rich hoodies. Straight-cut 12.75 oz. denim jeans are made from 20 percent recycled cotton.👕♻️
Design
‘It’s almost carbon-negative’: how hemp became a surprise building material - The Guardian
Cannabis sativa, the plant of the thousand and one molecules, has a long and expansive reputation – as a folk medicine, a source of textile fibre for clothes, for making rope or plugging holes in ships.
But now cannabis – or specifically its non-psychoactive variant, hemp – is being touted for something greater still: building blocks for housing that may avoid some of the environmental, logistic and economic downsides of concrete.
The cement industry is responsible for about 8% of planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions, alongside problems created by unyielding surfaces and low insulation, or R-value, properties. The search for large-scale alternatives has so far yielded few results, but on a small scale there are intriguing possibilities, including the use of hemp mixed with lime to create low-carbon, more climate-healthy building materials.🏠🪴
Industry
Episode 225: Matt Olsen, Gaza Surf Club - Looking Sideways (Substack)
This week’s guest, Matt Olsen, is the Founding Director of Explore Corps, the non-profit that founded Gaza Surf Club back in 2008.
Although he described himself as ‘just some dude from Washington’ in a recent Inertia interview, Matt’s roots in Gaza and Israel go back to his childhood, when his Dad was stationed in Israel while working as a diplomat. He’s been visiting Gaza since he was a surf-mad teen, and has been intimately involved with the Israeli and Gazan surf communities ever since. As such has a really nuanced understanding of the relationship between these two communities, as well as the roots of the historical and current conflict.🌊🏄🏽♂️🏄🏻♂️
Entertainment
Olivia Rodrigo: Tiny Desk Concert NPR Music - YouTube
Hazel Cills | December 11, 2023 The last time Olivia Rodrigo performed a Tiny Desk concert, it was two years ago, in a deserted DMV office, back when pandemic precautions meant artists sadly couldn't play the real Desk. But this year, the singer-songwriter returned, bringing a handful of songs from her wildly fun sophomore album to the NPR Music office. "It's much cooler to be here," Rodrigo says. "I was saying earlier, I've never been starstruck by a room before." Many of the songs on GUTS, which earned a special recommendation on NPR Music's Best Albums of 2023 list, blow out Rodrigo's sound into colorful, grungy pop-rock fit for a stadium, like "love is embarrassing," performed here with Rodrigo on jangly acoustic guitar. But the artist builds her set out with GUTS cuts that fit the intimate setup, like the searing "vampire," her backup vocalists cooing eerily around each of her lines, or the potent ode to female jealousy, "lacy," which Rodrigo explains started out as a poetry exercise in a college class. By the end of her set, she's completely alone at the piano for the sobering "making the bed," and it's not difficult to see why she's one of pop's most promising rising performers.
SET LIST "love is embarrassing" "vampire" "lacy" "making the bed"📡🎙️🎸