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Brand profile
Jackman
Japanese factory brand making heavyweight loop-wheel knit tees and sweats in Fukui, with roots in 1949 baseball-stocking manufacturing.
EchizenOrigin
Workwear / HeritageStyle
$$Price
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What to know about Jackman
Baseball stockings came first
The Fukui plant behind it opened in 1949 sewing baseball stirrup stockings, and the line still reads as American sports kit: sweats, hoodies, ground jumpers.
Knitting speed sets the fabric
Vintage loop-wheel and heavyweight GG and Dotsume machines are run slowly, which is what makes the jersey dense rather than the graphics or cut.
One town, cut and sewn
Everything is still made in Echizen City by the original plant's successor company, which is where the $80 tee and $230 outerwear pricing comes from.
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Brand facts
Jackman is a Japanese factory brand rooted in Tanabe Meriyasu, the Fukui sewing plant founded in 1949 by Mitsugu Tanabe to make baseball stirrup stockings after he watched visiting American teams play. Now operated by successor company Hit Union, it builds an "American sports freak's wardrobe" of loop-wheel knit tees, GG and Dotsume heavyweight sweats, hoodies, ground jumpers, waffle midnecks and pima crewnecks, still cut and sewn in Echizen City. Vintage knitting machines run at deliberate speed for dense, durable fabric. Tees start near $80; outerwear reaches roughly $230.
- Founded
- 1949
- Origin
- Echizen, Japan
- Price
- $$
- Facts checked
- August 2026
- Styles
- Workwear / Heritage, Athleisure / Sportswear
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