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People ask the question, if you can only listen to one album on a deserted island, what would it be? The answer swings wide, depending on your upbringing but even though you may get the shivers with some of the answers, you still wait for the response, ready to pounce...

Switch an album with a shirt and our answer is clear- take the Topper Denim Shirt with you. It is the first shirt we ever designed.  It is the best selling shirt we have ever made. It is the shirt that let us get into the clothing game that involved anything above the waist.

Our original intention was to make this with a heavy dose of workwear with an equal amount of western sensibility. The weight is perfect to us and the fit will not let you down. Tony had the last say about the pockets just before we finished with our pattern maker and he made sure that the pencil holder on the chest pocket favored left handed writers, which I am not. 

Either way, righties can reach it well enough so consider this your next shirt. Yours this week with a 20% discount as our "Item of the Week".

Enjoy,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

This week we have selected our Ladbroke Grove Slim Tapered 16.5 oz Selvedge jeans as our "Item of the Week". If we sharpened our pencil and put on the old green visor and crunched some numbers, we would find that this fit is our best seller every year.  Nothing against our other fits but one of them has to rule the roost...

Our 16.5 oz fabric was born from a sit down we had with the boys from Burg & Schild in Berlin back in 2011.  We simply asked about the details they would like in a selvedge denim fabric if they could snap their grease filled fingers and make it happen.  With notes from our meeting in hand, we went to work, and whammo- one year later we showed up at their door with said fabric cut in the Ankara fit ready to go and gave them first crack at it, since, well, they basically designed it.  Not too heavy, definitely not too light.  The orange selvedge stripe was us since that is one half of the SF Giants color story...

Yours this week at 20% off!

Enjoy,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

72-Hour Holiday Sale Ends Tonight!
20% Off everything we sell

Sale Ends Wed 12/16 @ 11:59 PST

guaranteed delivery by Christmas (domestic only)

Domestic orders over $100 ship FedEx 2-day for free.
Domestic orders under $100 ship FedEx 2-day for $10

no discount code needed

The Buchannan Work Pant was designed by our friend and neighbor, Sam Buchannan. Sam is a local skater, surfer, wood worker, musician and all around original dude who can care less what is happening in the world of fashion. One day, he stopped by wearing some incredible old work pants he bought at a thrift store and we got to work to make something like this for our own, with his help. We used a 12 oz. canvas made by Mt. Vernon in Georgia. This is a looser fitting, straight leg style with utility pockets on both sides. This fit guide will help.  Cut and sewn in San Francisco. Yours this week as our "Item of the Week".

Best,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

We are incredibly appreciative of the support we have received this year and respect everyone who says a nice word about what Tony and I do and how we do it. As Joe Strummer said, "without people, you''re nothing."

So, we continue to work hard, to keep making our goods with the highest quality standards and to keep producing jeans in the home of blue jean culture- San Francisco.

We extend a warm "thank you" to you today and want to show our appreciation by offering everything we make at a 20% discount. You have good choices out there in the world of denim, and we hope you give us a chance to be your next pair of jeans, jacket or shirt!
 
Our best to you,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

The Tellason Stock "trucker" / "Type III" / "jean jacket" is made from 14 oz Cone Mills sanforized double ring spun denim.  It not only features the traditional chest and side welt pockets, but also two large interior pockets.  As we've learned from our Coverall jackets, a jacket cannot have too many pockets. Cut and sewn in San Francisco, California, The Home of Blue Jeans.

Stay free,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson

We''ve been making our products in San Francisco since day one and our trips to the factory take us back and forth across the Golden Gate Bridge almost daily. Here is a tidbit from NPR about the unique color of the bridge, International Orange: 

The color came about thanks to Irving Morrow, the Golden Gate''s consulting architect, who noticed the striking reddish-orange primer painted on some of the steel.

Morrow designed the bridge''s lighting and its art-deco styling. He also championed the unusual color. Most bridges were gray, silver or black. It was expected that the Golden Gate Bridge would follow suit.

"He had to convince the Department of War, the permitting agency at the time, that the largest suspension span ever built at the time [should] have this wild crazy color," says Golden Gate Bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie.

The bridge''s construction began in 1933. Two years later, Morrow made the case for the wild color in the 29-page document, Report on Color and Lighting, which he presented to the bridge''s board of directors.
 
When choosing a color for our garment dyed Coverall jacket, International Orange immediately came to mind for obvious reasons. The factory that makes the jackets is 10 miles south across the bridge from our studio in Sausalito and the jackets are dyed 10 miles north of our studio. The color was meant to be.
 
Our International Orange Coverall jacket is our Item of the Week this week -- 20% off until midnight Golden Gate Bridge time August 20, 2020.

Stay Free,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

Our Coverall Jacket has been an important item for us for 9 years now. Originally designed by the good people at Smith & Butler in Brooklyn, it has had only one addition (left side patch pocket) since its conception. That tells us we hit on something meaningful, whether you are chopping wood in the snow or getting your nails polished. Frankly, we don''t care what use you have for it. We only care that you dig it enough to have it be on a short list of jackets you reach for in the morning.  

If you are wondering if that big pocket can hold a wine bottle, the answer is "yes"...

Yours this week as our Item of the Week at 20% off!

Enjoy,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

We are incredibly appreciative of the support we have received this year and respect everyone who says a nice word about what Tony and I do and how we do it. As Joe Strummer said, "without people, you''re nothing."

So, we continue to work hard, to keep making our goods with the highest quality standards and to keep producing jeans in the home of blue jean culture- San Francisco.

We extend a warm "thank you" to you today and want to show our appreciation by offering everything we make at a 20% discount. You have good choices out there in the world of denim, and we hope you give us a chance to be your next pair of jeans, jacket or shirt!
 
Our best to you,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

We''ve been making our products in San Francisco since day one and our trips to the factory take us back and forth across the Golden Gate Bridge almost daily. Here is a tidbit from NPR about the unique color of the bridge, International Orange: 

The color came about thanks to Irving Morrow, the Golden Gate''s consulting architect, who noticed the striking reddish-orange primer painted on some of the steel.

Morrow designed the bridge''s lighting and its art-deco styling. He also championed the unusual color. Most bridges were gray, silver or black. It was expected that the Golden Gate Bridge would follow suit.

"He had to convince the Department of War, the permitting agency at the time, that the largest suspension span ever built at the time [should] have this wild crazy color," says Golden Gate Bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie.

The bridge''s construction began in 1933. Two years later, Morrow made the case for the wild color in the 29-page document, Report on Color and Lighting, which he presented to the bridge''s board of directors.
 
When choosing a color for our garment dyed Coverall jacket, International Orange immediately came to mind for obvious reasons. The factory that makes the jackets is 10 miles south across the bridge from our studio in Sausalito and the jackets are dyed 10 miles north of our studio. The color was meant to be.
 
Our International Orange Coverall jacket is our Item of the Week this week -- 20% off until midnight Golden Gate Bridge time August 20, 2020.

Stay Free,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

Our chinos have been a part of our stable almost as long as our 5 pocket jeans. These are an absolute staple in a man''s closet and in our opinion, were brought to life in the same spirit as denim. Make it tough, make it last and make it easy to clean. Think about all those beautiful storytelling photos of WW2 of our soldiers giving it their all protecting everyone back home and those abroad.  

For us, we both went to San Diego State University- a huge military town full of incredible military supply shops to get your camo or chino fix satiated. There was one shop close to school where we bought our chinos in the early 80''s that had no shortage of wear and tear in each pair. These were high waisted, stove pipe legs but we bought them big and took them to the local tailor, right next door to get the tightest tapered leg possible. The pants were $5. The alteration was $10. 

Great memories for us and happy to be able to make them for our brand using fabric still made in South Carolina.  Offered in a straight leg or tapered leg fit.

Yours this week as our "Item of the Week" at 20% off!

Enjoy,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

We have always been careful when it comes to developing a new fit.  Like the small bread maker who first perfected their Sourdough before adding some sort of healthy football or frisbee looking thing with a ton of assorted seeds on the top, we do the same when it comes to anything new with 5 pockets and made with denim.  The Elgin was an easy one for us -- take our lower rise slim tapered Ladbroke Grove and add about an inch to the front and back rise.  Lucky for us, our pattern maker nailed it at the first go around and we have been cutting the Elgin for 6 years now.  When you put these on, they hit the hip at a good spot.  Not too low.  Not too high.  The leg is tapered but no where near what you see from stretchy pant makers!

Treat yourself to a fresh pair of black jeans this week as we highlight our Elgin mid rise slim tapered black selvedge jean as our "Item of the Week"...

Enjoy,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

Not only is Sheffield the name of the city in England where The Clash played their first ever show on July 4, 1976 (with Buzzcocks and Sex Pistols!), the home of Premier League surprise team Sheffield United (had they not lost three of their last five matches, they would have finished above once mighty Arsenal), the home of our friend Ben from @clobbercalm -- it is also the name of our mid-rise straight tapered fit.  This week''s Item of the Week is the Sheffield in our proprietary Kaihara 16.5 oz. selvedge denim.

By the way, if you''re ever in Sheffield, look up Ben and buy the lad a proper local beer, he has an affinity for watery American beers we''re trying to remedy!

Stay free,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
 

Not only is Sheffield the name of the city in England where The Clash played their first ever show on July 4, 1976 (with Buzzcocks and Sex Pistols!), the home of Premier League surprise team Sheffield United (had they not lost three of their last five matches, they would have finished above once mighty Arsenal), the home of our friend Ben from @clobbercalm -- it is also the name of our mid-rise straight tapered fit.  This week''s Item of the Week is the Sheffield in our proprietary Kaihara 16.5 oz. selvedge denim.

By the way, if you''re ever in Sheffield, look up Ben and buy the lad a proper local beer, he has an affinity for watery American beers we''re trying to remedy!

Stay free,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
 

We are fortunate.  Fortunate to have incredible people around us in our personal lives and in our business life at Tellason.  There is a dude in Frankfurt who is like a brother to us and he also has been carrying our flag in the EU for 10 years now.  He also happens to be skilled with creating styles for us that are 100% our style.  This Baker jacket is a perfect example of something we love.  It is a classic military jacket made up in an incredible moleskin and we are offering it this week as our "Item of the Week".  Khaki and olive are your options so have a go at it while you can with a 20% discount!

Best from here,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason

The big pocket on the left side of our Coverall Jacket shares some qualities of that carpet bag Mary Poppins shows up with at the Family Banks house. Not sure if it can hold a hat rack or wall mirror but we do know it can hold a ton of stuff from a bottle of wine to a few meat pies.  At first glance, it may be the pocket you think you would use the least but ask someone who owns one, and the opposite is true.  Personally, this is the best place for a set of keys since if you bend down to pick something up, the keys stay low and will find it impossible to slip out of such a deep well of a pocket.

We appreciate the design details that were brought to us from a great old shop in Brooklyn back in 2011 called Smith & Butler and hope you consider picking up our "Item of the Week" with a 20% discount.
 
Best from here,

Tony Patella
Pete Searson
Tellason