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Yellow Bucket Hat with Sunset Tie-Dye — Orange Green Cotton
The Sunset Tie-Dye yellow bucket hat runs through a layered gradient of mustard yellow, deep orange and forest green, applied through traditional tie-dye rather than printed flat onto the cotton. The technique draws on the long Japanese textile tradition of shibori — the resist dyeing method that has been practiced in Arimatsu and Narumi since the seventeenth century — pulled here through the warmer palette of California and 1990s Tokyo Harajuku rather than the classic indigo-and-white of formal shibori work.
The crown is the same low-profile six-panel build we apply to every yellow bucket hat in the Japan Clothing catalog. Cotton has been pre-washed before the dyeing process so the gradient sits deep in the fibers rather than sitting on the surface, which is why the colors hold their depth through fifty washes instead of fading after a season. Each yellow bucket hat varies slightly in the exact placement of the tie-dye pattern, since the dye process is by hand rather than industrial — small variations are part of the character of the piece, not flaws in production.
Tie-dye has cycled through streetwear three or four times since the late 1960s, but its current Tokyo iteration draws less from American hippie culture and more from the shibori workshops of Aichi prefecture, where the same dyeing techniques have been applied to handkerchiefs, kimono linings and hand towels for four hundred years. We took the warmer end of the palette because yellow bucket hats are underrepresented in mass-market streetwear, and because the sunset gradient pairs naturally with denim, white tees and the kind of layered Japanese streetwear we built the brand around.
Wear it with selvedge denim and a white tee for the cleanest summer silhouette, with cargo pants and a vintage band shirt for the warmer 1990s Harajuku reference, or with a haori and sneakers if you want to push the tie-dye into something more layered. The Sunset Tie-Dye sits alongside our orange, green, white and blue bucket hats in the wider Japan Clothing accessories edit.
Details & Craftsmanship
Every detail has been carefully considered to bring you the perfect product.
Details & Craftsmanship
Every detail has been carefully considered to bring you the perfect product.
Description
Yellow Bucket Hat with Sunset Tie-Dye — Orange Green Cotton
The Sunset Tie-Dye yellow bucket hat runs through a layered gradient of mustard yellow, deep orange and forest green, applied through traditional tie-dye rather than printed flat onto the cotton. The technique draws on the long Japanese textile tradition of shibori — the resist dyeing method that has been practiced in Arimatsu and Narumi since the seventeenth century — pulled here through the warmer palette of California and 1990s Tokyo Harajuku rather than the classic indigo-and-white of formal shibori work.
The crown is the same low-profile six-panel build we apply to every yellow bucket hat in the Japan Clothing catalog. Cotton has been pre-washed before the dyeing process so the gradient sits deep in the fibers rather than sitting on the surface, which is why the colors hold their depth through fifty washes instead of fading after a season. Each yellow bucket hat varies slightly in the exact placement of the tie-dye pattern, since the dye process is by hand rather than industrial — small variations are part of the character of the piece, not flaws in production.
Tie-dye has cycled through streetwear three or four times since the late 1960s, but its current Tokyo iteration draws less from American hippie culture and more from the shibori workshops of Aichi prefecture, where the same dyeing techniques have been applied to handkerchiefs, kimono linings and hand towels for four hundred years. We took the warmer end of the palette because yellow bucket hats are underrepresented in mass-market streetwear, and because the sunset gradient pairs naturally with denim, white tees and the kind of layered Japanese streetwear we built the brand around.
Wear it with selvedge denim and a white tee for the cleanest summer silhouette, with cargo pants and a vintage band shirt for the warmer 1990s Harajuku reference, or with a haori and sneakers if you want to push the tie-dye into something more layered. The Sunset Tie-Dye sits alongside our orange, green, white and blue bucket hats in the wider Japan Clothing accessories edit.
