LOST WORLDS INC. AMERICANA

HUNTING & SAFARI CLOTHING:  SHIRTS & OUTERWEAR

In the mid-80s LOST WORLDS began business as a mail order retailer featuring products from major, longtime hunting and safari outfitter WILLIS & GEIGER. When in the early 90s we followed our own direction, to become the preeminent manufacturer of Classic American Flight and Motorcycle Jackets, customers regularly suggested that at some point we make Safari and Hunting apparel to our own quality and functional specifications. The aforementioned previous  supplier, in fact, came to us requesting that LOST WORLDS produce its leather outerwear line (but we respectfully declined).

Accordingly, our reissue of quality rugged and refined Safari and Hunting clothing is the newest "reexploration" of LOST WORLDS. Using a variety of fine Wools, 340 Bush Poplin Cotton, Military Quarpel Oxford and Nylon Broadcloths, we now make classic outdoors styles at our NY factory alongside our famous leather jackets. Typically, LOST WORLDS has reexamined some classic gear -- safari bush jackets and shirts, hunting jackets -- for fit and specification to address issues which have nettled customers through the years keen on this gear. Everything we've done is an upgrade, ranging from materials to components to construction. Where design and material permit, for example, interior seams are closed and double-needle chain-stitched on an ancient dreadnought of a Singer machine, dubbed The Spider owing to its unusual, ornate shape, dated pre-1920s. The original spirit, if anything, is revitalized and brought back to its roots by our attention and lack of compromise.

Our aim -- provide customers with rugged but impeccably tailored outdoor clothing whose mettle will be proven in the field but pedigree and elegance allow to be worn in less intense settings: the office, a restaurant. Each LOST WORLDS jacket or shirt is made at our own NYC factory by a single, highly skilled sewing machine operator. Flawless quality, precision stitching, closed seam construction wherever possible. These are fantastic, virtually bespoke garments available nowhere else.