MANUFACTURING
Original Paperbacks: Custom Dyed in So Cal Facility
Original Paperbacks has program to offer retailers unique colors and quick-turn deliveries.
The company runs a sprawling dye house in Vernon, Calif., where it makes an array of more than 55 colors, which range from neon to earth tones. Retailers can work with the dye house to make a color that will be unique to the Original Paperbacks products sold at a specific store.
While the pants are made in the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka, Original Paperbacks shorts, chinos and corduroys are dyed and finished in Vernon, the industrial town located adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. The company's knits are all produced domestically.
“Every single Original Paperbacks item is going to go through the Vernon warehouse. We like that aspect,” said Tommy Kerns, sales director for Original Paperbacks. “It’s not glamorous, but it’s for those people who are not ashamed of their roots. It’s not Malibu, but I will guarantee that there are plenty of people who will wear it in Malibu.”
The Original Paperbacks brand started business in 2010. In January 2014, the bottoms label debuted woven button-down shirts. Its chino pants are directed toward the slimmer, fashion-oriented guy. There’s a slim silhouette with a 14-inch leg opening and a straight-leg opening with a 15- and a 16-inch leg opening. Pants are made out of linen, cotton, and a ripstop and a low-wale Bedford corduroy.
Kerns said that the line, which also has been called by the abbreviation OPB, can be worn at work and during evenings. Wholesale price points range from $39.50 to $58.
For more information, contact Kerns at tommy@originalpaperbacks.com or at (440) 463-8048.
