When I pulled my grandfather's Ironclad chore coat from a cedar chest last November, the canvas had the color of creekbed clay and the stiffness of rawhide. Forty years of mill work had turned the brown duck into something better than new.
The Standard Set in 1889
The founders at Ironclad built their first chore coat on one premise: the garment should never be the weak point. Every rivet was brass, every seam was triple-stitched with heavy-gauge thread, and the 12-ounce cotton duck came from mills in Georgia that understood the difference between decorative and structural fabric.
"The jacket is not fashion. It is infrastructure. You do not retire infrastructure."