Interview with Jock Of All Trade

Here at The Ministry we pride ourselves on bringing you the best underwear new's and latest review there is. We recently met with the amazing guys at Jock of all Trade for a cup of tea and a little chat about who they are and what they do.
MoU: Hi guys, firstly it’s nice to meet you. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to talk to us here at the Ministry. I think our first and most obvious question is going to be to ask you to tell our readers who you are? 

JoaT: Thanks for having us, we're happy to be here. So we’re Jock of all Trade. We sell cute, sexy and comfortable underwear for all shapes and sizes. We make everything by hand, use 100% recyclable packaging and give back to the community by donating 10% of all our sales to LGBT charities.

MoU: So you make everything yourself? How did you get into designing and then making underwear for men? 
JoaT: They say ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’, and I want to see uplifted butts and bulges. For real though, it all started when I was trying to treat my boyfriend to some sexy underwear and was shocked to find that so many major underwear companies didn’t sell anything large enough to fit him. Those that did were either outside of my budget or their designs didn’t particularly thrill me, so I decided to do better; making underwear to allow all shapes and sizes to feel their best, with a massive selection of fun designs at a more affordable price. 

MoU: Speaking about men, your brand seems to be following the recent trend we’ve seen in various underwear retailers in promoting body confidence which is amazing to see especially on your social media. Looking at your site we can see you stock sizes XXS to 4XL. Is this important to you? 
JoaT: Yes, it’s so important. Everyone deserves to feel cute and sexy.  We have a variety of models (with more on the way) that we don’t photoshop to fit any kind of body image standard. 

We believe that it’s important for our customers to see themselves represented in our models and we believe that people of all sizes deserve visibility. We could talk for hours about this, but in conclusion: it’s something we’re very passionate about and it was very important for us to cater to all sizes from day 1 so no one felt excluded.

MoU: That’s amazing, more brands need to be promoting these and we’re certainly on board as are your customers by the looks of it. 15 5 Star reviews, no one seems to have a bad word about you. Does this put pressure on you and your new releases? 
JoaT: I mean it didn’t before, but thanks for that haha. Yeah we’ve been blown away by the support from our customers. We’ve received so many messages especially from bigger guys thanking us for helping them feel sexy and that’s so heartwarming for us. 

Most of our business is from previous customers who love what we do and keep coming back for more. One of our customers just ordered their 23rd jock from us, saying that they haven’t worn any other underwear since they discovered us. We are listening to our customers and we hope to continue uplifting them.

MoU: So what can we expect from Jock of all Trade in the future, I mean you’re already making stunning Jockstraps and receiving amazing praise from your customers, what’s next? 
JoaT: We have big plans for the next few months, there’s a lot in the works, but in the meantime we have plenty of new models to show off. No matter what happens next we’ll continue to support people of all sizes and we’ll keep giving back to the community.

MoU: That sounds very exciting and we can’t wait to see you folks do next, before we go where can our readers find and follow you? 
JoaT: The best place to find us is on Instagram. Follow us to see our designs on a bunch of models you should totally check out. We sell on Etsy at www.etsy.com/shop/jockofalltrade and ship all around the world. Side note, we do make sizes above 4XL, that’s just the size limit Etsy goes up to, if you leave a note with an order asking for a bigger size, we can make it happen.