We followed Henry Ford in our color choice for first model

We followed Henry Ford in our color choice for first model

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We followed Henry Ford in our color choice for first model

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black,”

Yep, the famous quote from Ford back in his 1922 book.

To be clear, at the time of this posting, the only color we have is black.

In due time, other colors will be released.This is the history of that decision and some sample gloves that came before it.

I (Matt) personally wanted the Brick/Brown gloves to be the first color but I was outvoted by all the others.   

Looks nice, right?

When it has a 2 color set, you can really see the contrast on the inner palm and thumb in comparison to the others.  In fact, over the (many) prototypes we had many natural leather colors.

Heres a snippet, and its certainly not something we ever planned to have on video for public consumption, but you can see here a variety of colors with an older prototype set

It also might be possible to do a black glove in a neon thread, like a neon green.   Not quite something that would have been possible in the year 1898, maybe another time.

What colors would most interest you?

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