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I've just got back from a week around Albuquerque New Mexico, which was totally made by extremely kind recommendations from @chicote. We're so grateful- thank you! Most of my photos are of family, but here are a some solo/landscape highlights, some including Working slack jeans: landscape just outside Corrales, where we were staying, on the way to a site of hundreds of Native American petroglyphs: which appear on rocks where black 'glaze' of oxidised iron is scratched away to make a lighter mark of the rock beneath: they were not easy to spot, here's a close up: we also saw a coyote clambering over the rocks, and the rest of my family saw a thorny devil (aka hornytoad, squirts blood out of its eyes), and we saw lots of anole lizards and 5-line skinks. Throwing a rock across the Rio Grande: the riverbed is almost totally dry at this time of year, where we were: best meals we had (we returned!) were at Itality in Albuquerque, on a plaza for indigenous-owned businesses, serving entirely vegetable local Native American food. It was fantastic, this photo doesn't really do the food justice but the stew was great (lentils, green chiles, summer squash), as were the 'pueblo tacos', and fry bread, which has a problematic history (devised from US-provided rations during enforced relocation), but seems to be a part of the NM culture now and tastes really good: up nearer Santa Fe the altitude is seriously high, and the clarity of light is spectacular. It's also a lot less hot, and a lot greener: Just outside the Jemez pueblo there's a calcium carbonate (chalk right?) 'frozen' waterfall: inside we found a crystal clear pool of water coming from a drip in the ceiling. Don't judge me, I tasted it, tasted like Topo Chico no lie Fenton lake, at the end of the same drive up into the mountains: the best bit for me was our visit to Sky City, the Acoma people's Pueblo- it's a long drive through pretty much desert to get there, but the landscape changes so radically with the geology that the drive itself was one of the best bits. It's at the top of a mesa (flat top mountain) and we got a bus up, and a tour by a woman whose family have a home there. Here's the view from the top: and the streets: a stairway to the skies (the top horizontal is a cloud, the verticals are rain) bread oven: the walk down is on very steep steps cut into the rock, with scooped hand holds: on our last day we went to Tinkertown, halfway up to Sandia Peak, which is the mountain that looks over Albuquerque. It's barely describable, but it's a gallery/workshop/home of Ross Ward, who was a sign painter and model maker. There are thousands of carved figures and scenes, a lot of them automata, mostly in the circus/fairground vernacular. Plus a boat that his brother built and sailed around the world, plus vast collections of pretty much anything you can imagine, all jammed into tight wooden corridors and rooms built out of concrete with thousands of glass bottles set into them, which act as windows, like this: bonus picture, I thought it was really cool that construction workers had hard hats with clip-on wide brims and sun/insect nets: Again, @chicote I'm just so grateful for all the time you took putting this itinerary for us together, I think we did all but one thing you suggested, which was too far of a drive. Best trip in ages.

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And I miss Favon aka @megatron as well

Yeah still alive but very seldom on Sufu since I switched to Instagram under @swissjeansfreak many years ago

Same - I think it needs reporting to the Mods 😉

https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2025/0825_01_en.html

Same here

Same here. I noticed it yesterday and doesn't seem to be any better on my end.

Yeah seems very slow on my end as well. Not sure why.

Sufu is slow af for me today and i'm not talking about the post count, i thought it was an issue with the broadband at work but it's the same here at home.. Speed check is fine .. but the site is taking an age to refresh, even uploading that^ 38kb screenshot took over 30seconds. Same for anyone else?

Proxy service World Shopping stopped shipping to USA temporarily. edit: Japan Post. DHL is fine for now it looks like.

1922 501 0ne soak.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/postal-services-suspend-us-usa-deliveries-how-will-it-affect-you It looks like it’s a temporary suspension for the next few days

Pretty sure every country is still allowing shipping to every other country, more or less??

Is Japan and Germany no longer shipping to USA?

Where's @Megatron1505? We miss you!

Warehouse - WMJ - Duke - Doek

Denime 10th Anniversary, 1937s

OMG are you guys still alive?

I remember Browns - used to be in South Molton Street and I think it has moved around the corner to Brook St now. Had a look in there a few times over the years but never bought anything as it was quite expensive and never really my thing.

Always thought the 1501 0117, 2501 0117, 3501 0117 and 4501 0117 stamped on the two horse patch on a pair of Levis 501's was a mid 1970s thing until maybe very early 1980s, but found this pair in a vintage store online and they are clearly a late 1960s pair, got the V stitch and Big E, so had to share. The 1 and 2 prefixes were there to indicate longer than standard leg lengths, 1 indicating 38" leg length and 2 indicating 40" leg length. The 3 was used as a prefix to pairs with a waist size of 44 or above regardless of leg length (?) and the 4 prefix l've seen only on those massive display pairs of 501's in a size 76x45.

A deadstock pair of the Denime "Yoshi". These were made for the foreign market (UK and US) https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/en/special/order/confirm/https%3A%2F%2Fjp.mercari.com%2Fitem%2Fm64008999081/13_1/ Who of the UK lads remembers Browns in London?

Exactly. Now it's my wife who's always telling me I should do Denim YouTube because I'd be good at it, but the last thing I'd ever do is jump through hoops trying to make money off of it. I have a stable job that pays the bills and all that, so I just view the whole denim thing as a hobby that I share with other people because I enjoy it. It frustrates me that YouTube people I like, even, often seem to admit that they feel like the algorithm pushes them this way or that, and they don't feel like they have the freedom to do what they really want because those videos don't get views.

Anyone interested heres a link to the Levis site and the current 1922s https://www.levi.com/US/en_US/clothing/men/made-in-japan-1922-501-original-fit-mens-jeans/p/A44100003

Hi all, Just picked up a pair of the new 1922 501s. Date code is the 38 week of 2024. They just arrived. Here are some of my first thoughts. The denim Japanese denim is really nice. Rougher /more textured than the 1937 Japanese denim ones I picked up last year. The fit is baggy. Really full in the thighs and seat. The rise is also high. I really like the white line selvedge on these. I usually just wear raw but I think I will do a cold 30 min soak before wearing on this pair. Size is 36/34.