Dispatch

Dispatch

Notes on the work, the kit and why the shirts say what they say.

Close quarters

Why VCQB changed what we put on a shirt

Vehicle close quarters battle is the discipline that most obviously separates the people who train from the people who post. Working a car is not working a range: the angles are wrong, the cover is a lie, and everything you learned standing square goes out the window. Here is what a year of shooting that content taught us about who actually buys this brand.

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The drop model

Why the store is shut most of the year

Limited runs are not scarcity theatre when you are cutting a hundred pieces at a time and printing them heavy. But a store that is dark between drops asks a lot of an audience, and the answer is not to open the doors permanently. It is to give people somewhere to stand while they wait.

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Kit

What ten ounces of fabric is actually for

A 10oz/yd² hoodie is heavier than almost anything hanging in a mall. That weight is not about looking substantial in a product photo. It is about what happens after eighteen months of being worn under a carrier, sweated through, washed hot and thrown in the back of a truck.

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