JOLYN SWIMWEAR

CAF

Warren — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:39:19 +0000

CAF half ironman (Challenged Athletes Foundation) was last Sunday at La Jolla Cove – good turnout, good times, and a lot of money was raised. I heard over a million.

For more info click here… Challenged Athletes Foundation

Welcome Casey to the team

Warren — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:36:39 +0000

Casey is a friend of mine out of Los Angeles with a background in snowboarding and skateboarding. He’s been a contributing artist to women’s collections for Top Shop, Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Pronounced Love, and Groceries just to name a few. We’ll be updating our site with new suits with his signature artwork starting in December. Hope you like them! You can check out more of his previous work at

http://www.caseywisden.com/index.php?/project/workshop-la/

To one of the most generous business owners I’ve met

Warren — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:07:29 +0000

Have you ever wanted to meet someone who seamed way out of your league? That’s probably a “yes,” because most people have. So what if you find a way to meet that person? The fact I’m the most insecure person in the world makes me nervous to even try to make this happen. Imagine someone who’s in every swim store and is running three insanely busy businesses that take up weekdays and weekends, plus has kids? With a schedule like that, why would anyone of this caliber go out of his or her way to help someone who couldn’t offer ANYTHING in return?

I met Karen Schmidt Allard a year ago. I didn’t meet Karen because of her product, but because of her personality. Let me explain: I met her through a swim buddy of mine when we were trying to get things going here at JOLYN. He did me a favor and got us in touch so I could learn about entrepreneurship. At that time I was fully employed by a San Diego firm in a completely different industry and took PTO to race up to her Orange County office to meet her.

She has a shampoo company named Tri-Swim, an anti goggle fog lubricant named Foggle, and an anti rashing/ chaffing spray on named Tri Slide. When we met she didn’t talk about her own success one bit, or any of her products she’d spent years developing. She only thought about how she could help me. She made calls to the biggest swimwear boutiques in the Western USA to help get my product into stores; she put my fliers into her outgoing packages to customers to help promote my online business; and returned every phone call I ever made to her and answered every question I ever asked a favor of. On top of that, she hired the nicest, best employees you could imagine who have all extended help to me in one way or another.

She’s an innovator and has an unbelievably helpful and giving personality who puts others before her own self. Check out her website… just google Tri Swim Shampoo and/ or SBR Sports and it should come up (I’ve also posted a link below). I’ve become a fan of the shampoo- it really does do the job without giving you an oily head like other “swim” shampoos.

http://www.sbrsportsinc.com/testimonials_triswim.htm

: You can see how popular Karen’s business has become. And they deserve all the success that comes to them.

We love what we do

Warren — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:14:54 +0000

Just for fun… we know two gold zippers won’t work. But who cares, right?

Best show. Why was it cancelled?

Warren — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:48:46 +0000

Best show ever, sometimes you can catch it on the IFC channel, or just get the DVD’s. It was never given a good schedule, airing on Saturdays before being suspended for the World Series, then came back for like 3 more weeks, then removed for 2 more months, then moved to Mondays for like 2 weeks. This show hits waaayyy close to growing up – it’s hard not to relate to just about every scene.

Color Theory

Warren — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:05:15 +0000

This is the third installment on Color Theory from Dwell, and I’m so happy to be able to upload it. If you missed the first two series, be sure to scroll back a few posts and check them out!

http://www.dwell.com/videos/The-Full-Spectrum-Herman-Miller.html

TIEM Swimwear

Warren — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:43:40 +0000

Lately we’ve been handling a ton of design and production work, running into little issues here and there, missing little details here and there, and spending a little too much money here and there at JOLYN. And I thought to myself, does TIEM make these types of mistakes?

Then I caught myself while working in a huge warehouse filled with seamstresses sewing the latest Patagonia line: I noticed I’m using TIEM as a benchmark more than the big companies.

In one of my last blogs I briefly mentioned a company named TIEM – a swimwear company created and managed by a long time Los Angeles County and California State Lifeguard named Tandis Morgan and her brother Tyler. All I had known about Tandis before I met her was that she spent A LOT of time designing, trying, and testing her suits. The rumor is 10 years, but I have yet to hear this from her own mouth, so don’t quote me. So when you buy a TIEM suit, you can think to yourself, “10 years of testing went into this piece.” The company name is her initials spelled out… fellow lifeguards and surfers started getting her suits before there was a name and simply used to refer to them as her initials.

During our first phone call, all we did was agree on everything. We agreed on how there is ALWAYS a better fit to discover and it’s up to both of us to find it; good customer service is a necessity; and swimwear should be made in a way where we would personally want it, except for the fact that I’m a guy and I can’t wear what we make here at JOLYN. Although Tandis does all of the above (she personally answers and attends to every customer question, diligently develops her own pieces, and importantly won’t put anything with her company’s name on it that she wouldn’t buy herself), she hugely stresses this last point and finds it to be the driving factor behind the success she’s had. She’s been able to design for the female water rippers out there, which she embodies. For those who don’t know, she’s put in her time competing for the USA in international lifeguard competition. Back in the day we crossed paths but never knew it.

We’re supposed to grab a bite to eat here this week up in Hermosa where she just moved into a new studio next to the ocean. If I wasn’t already jealous enough, she’s got a new place on the sand.

: Tandis gets a lot of inspiration from the 1960’s & 70’s San Onofre Surfing Club

Color Blocking

Warren — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:25:28 +0000

We’ve been playing around with color blocking. Here’s Stacy in a new top of ours. If you want one, or would like to see some of your favorite colors together, hit us up on facebook or shoot us an email through the website. Cheers!

New suit update – I promised a photo

Warren — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:17:05 +0000

Even though we introduce different suits on a regular basis, this one seams to be the most exciting. Everyone’s ecstatic about it – Ashley Miller (Int’l badass and former team captain for Berkeley Water Polo) and Stacy Peterson (former D1 swimmer and recent strength training coach for UCSD) are claiming it’s the best top they’ve ever worn. Stacy’s heading to Maui to swim the Maui Channel race next week and picked hers up just in time. She also wants to do some underwater shots with it when she gets back. Here’s a photo of Bri Fejer, former coach and goalie, wearing one.

We have a new suit hitting the market

Warren — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:45:03 +0000

Jolyn Clothing is probably best known for tie-back suits. Our tie-back full suit one piece, a.k.a. “Mini,” has become our most recognized suit because of its different look, and our “tie top” is our most successful top because it offers athletes incredible hold while being ultra comfortable. We found the two separate cups work in the athlete’s favor because the lack of fabric in between the bust allows water to move through freely. In my opinion, “tie-backs” are the most functional top on the market because the alternative, fixed straps, have a tendancy to become useless once the straps lose their elasticity or stretch out a little too far. Tie backs (without the use of hardware or buckles) are gaining acceptance in the sports swimming industry due to companies like TIEM Surf and Jolyn Clothing, and the fact that the best competitors in the USA and even abroad are turning to our products equal to big companies like Speedo and Nike. And yep, Tandis (owner of TIEM, pronounced Tee-Em) and I are friends. I’ll be writing about her company soon, because she has a super awesome thing going on in surfing and lifeguarding, which translate into a great product for the aquatics industry. She’s a ripper for sure.

The suit in the photo below is the latest top Jolyn Clothing is introducing. A little bit about it’s history: We’ve been making what the industry calls a “demi” top for about 3 years now. A “demi top” is basically a spin-off of a sports bra, where a lateral piece of elastic runs across the top of the chest, and a second lateral piece of elastic runs along the bottom of the bust and torso, holding one large piece of fabric that spans across the entire front. Although I can’t speak for other manufacturers, I have tried to slim out this center front over the years doing the best I could to make it dissappear. Problem was I critically lost support in the bra dealing with larger bust sizes. Fabiola and TIEM have probably the best looking demi tops out there, and I highly recommend both companies.

Many athletes want the support of two lateral elastic lines, and what we wanted to do was eliminate the “parachute” effect, where water catches between the bust when they have a B cup chest or greater. Parachuting causes suits to either bag out over time, or worse flash others during a bad dive or a strong push off the wall. So what we simply did here at Jolyn was add a way for water to exhaust through a gap in the center front of the top by sewing in two separate cups, while keeping the upper and lower lateral elastics. We hope this suit will become one of the most accepted tops in the aquatic sports industry, in addition to being the best top to accommodate larger chested athletes. When combined with tie-back straps, this top is subtly but intricately engineered to help with the range of differences of women’s bodies and torso volumes.

We already have a few tops out there proving great results with a few selected swimmers. We’re starting another production run with various colors to be ready mid September. We’ll get a photo with a model for you soon so you can see how they look when worn. Trust me, they look great, and will be economically priced during these hard times. If you are interested, please email us through our website at contact@jolynclothing.com to be one of the first to have one.

Our new top...