Fox Fabrique has been designing and making crew shirts for the automotive racing industry for 20 years. Our sister company, Downs Engineering, has been competing in motorsports for 30 years so all our products are thoroughly track tested before we sell them. And after 20 years we have a lot of customers who have race-tested our clothes too.

We have found that, at least in racing, the shirts last easily a couple of seasons, and we have customers who have worn them for 6 years or more. The fabric will fade in the sun, all fabric does, so after a while the fading will make new shirts important.

If the crew shirts are not heavily embroidered, they can be washed and dried in your home dryer. If you remove them from the dryer promptly and hang them, they rarely need ironing. If they are heavily embroidered, or if they sit in the dryer, touching up with an iron will make them look better.

The colors shouldn’t bleed. Over the years we have had maybe two instances where red fabric bled onto white. In general bleeding can happen if wet shirts are left in a heap - and bleeding can come from either the fabric or the embroidery thread. For that reason we recommend not leaving the shirts wet in the washer. Or if they are wet from fishing, hang them so they don’t bleed or mildew.

Tournament Fishing is a new market for us. We have been providing shirts to the Japanese market for about 3 years, and we have also worked closely with several US customers, providing shirts for their customers as well as many independent tournament fishermen.

We worked really hard to come up with a shirt that working crews could wear and be comfortable in. We always felt that if a crewman was comfortable in his shirt he would wear it instead of ripping it off at the first opportunity. The longer he wears his shirt, the more exposure the sponsor gets. So it’s good for the sponsors and good for the crews.

Please give me a call with your questions and comments about our shirts or any other of our products.

Kathy