Self Edge

Self Edge opened in San Francisco in 2006, founded by husband-and-wife team Kiya and Demitra Babzani after they came across a group of Japanese makers producing vintage American-style workwear with a level of craft the US market simply wasn't seeing. That discovery became the shop's whole reason for being: bringing Japanese raw denim to a Western audience, alongside repair and hemming done in-house on vintage Union Special and Singer machines. It's grown to five stores since, always on the same quality-first terms.

The edit leans heavily on heritage workwear and tailoring, built around names like Iron Heart, The Flat Head, THE STRIKE GOLD, 3sixteen, Stevenson Overall Co and Boncoura, with leather goods from Fine Creek Leathers and Good Art Hlywd, and Sun Surf for print shirting. Staff know the production story behind every pair of jeans on the wall.