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I have recently become very interested in beach cloth. Couldn’t find much using the search function, does anyone have experience with the Fullcount Brown’s Beach products or can recommend something else?

Roland sands/jcrew/west ride/chippewa

Yes I stand corrected unfinished would be right I believe.

Yeah I think you're most probably right. I don't fancy the gamble at the moment to be honest. I think this zenmarket set up is like a storefront kind of vibe - similar to how toys mccoy use worldshopping for example, so there may be some slightly different arrangement than using zenmarket normally, I don't know.

What did i win?! 😀

WTS P44-DS XL Grey 9/10 Full Pack £300 Anywhere UK free postage Everywhere else we can sort out.

Zen stopped lowering the value of goods to the UK in 2020.. whether thay have had a recent change of heart, i don't know but it was still the case up to 05/25. If you want to avoid charges with a slight increase in fees, i'd suggest Japan Rabbit. Unless of course this is a private arrangement with WH.. dunno, i'm a tad sceptical.

^^^I think you will either have to pay the shipper on delivery, or customs will call you and ask for a payment. Strangely this happened to me years ago with a delivery from MEADOW (Sweden). I was asked where the clothes were constructed (I think it was Portugal in that particular case). That was the only time I ever got a customs charge. Apparently this will be the new norm...

Does anyone have experience with paying these tariffs? I have beaten the taxes so far, but will I have to pay on delivery, or will the package be held hostage at the warehouse?

I know that in the past it was possible to declare a lower invoice value via ZenMarket but thought that was no longer the case. I haven’t used ZenMarket for a few years so hopefully someone with more recent experience can chime in.

Just doing a little bit of digging as I noticed recently that ZenMarket now handle international shipping for Warehouse. Is this really true (blue circle on first image)? Can anyone verify for me? If so it's actually a great plus. However, now I believe you'd pay tax on the initial ship to ZM location from Warehouse store, and, they seem to be hiking the price a touch, maybe that's ZM's initial fee wrapped up in that £183 price on the DSB 54's as I currently have 35200 yen as being ~£175 Overall - could potentially turn out cheaper for us in the UK/Europe/anywhere but the US currently.

^ I think they’re just called unfinished or raw edge seams. In fact ‘failed’ would be closer than ‘felled’!

In this picture are about 160. The total was closer to 350.

I haven’t posted many garden updates through the summer, because the lighting’s really tough to get right for photos, but that’s still where the jeans have been getting a good chunk of their wear Sunflowers came & went: (Okay, wasn’t wearing the jeans for that last photo, but they were there for the gardening) Winter squashes are getting ready, now, to pop up in the sunflowers’ place—but the few we sowed on the other side of the yard already have a strong head start. The longest vines are gaining close to a foot each day! Sunday, 7 pm: This morning, 7 am: This evening, 7 pm: Echinacea (bought pre-started) is doing great, & so’s the creeping ficus that had to start over this spring after I tore down the last decade’s growth …bench corner now also featuring yellow mallow + more potted pansies, and hopefully some cup-and-saucer flowers to be popping up some time next week in the other pot to the right Exciting things are starting to happen in the raised bed and in the little herb garden: more to come!

We took our little one to the Michigan Renaissance Faire over the holiday weekend. Both denims are really starting to crinkle even more so after the follow-up wash to get off all the dust. Ebbets/Denime/Whitesville/Rockets/Alden

Felled seams. Here is a shot of my 1880s waist overalls

@Double 0 Soul most of those were my roommate’s, she is staying in that apartment… she had already decorated the whole place wall to wall when I moved in so I didn’t have much space for any of my own things, now that I have my own place again it feels a lot more comfortable, even if a bit less green!

Nice - glad to know they tuned into those details when making them. I thought they were starting to fall apart!

That’s period correct, they didn’t use overlock stitching back then.

Also, what's up with the inside stitching of my 1890? Were 19th century denim made with all these loose threads? It's like this near the button fly, down the legs, and in the pockets.

It's been about 5 weeks since my last update. Despite the hot weather I've managed to wear these most days. Overcast outside today so a pretty true representation of the progress, I'd say. First repair happened a couple of weeks back. An inch and a half of hand stitching on the crotch seam. Likely I could have done a neater job had I not lacked the self discipline to remove my bifocals, and break my focus from reruns of Dickenson's Real Deal.

Inspired by @chicote's recent WAYWT pic, I looked into vintage Gant shirts. Apparently in the 60s for some time they were the world second largest producer of shirts. I saw these details of their shirts on one vintage packaging. Sensible high quality points.

Here's a video from a couple months ago where he wears them: He fills out the jeans and jacket pretty good, leading to the nice whiskering of his pair. Ever since I started wearing straight fit jeans, pretty much all of my pairs have a very relaxed fit in the top block, since for my waist size of 31-32 I have skinny thighs and a not-large rear end. Still, I quite like my fit, which is very comfortable and similar to how early 40s jeans were worn in photos from the period by Russell Lee, etc.

Just got the 54s back from hemming. Feels pretty good.

Nice video. Would have been even better to see how the tux would have looked worn by him and whether the fit is wider or tighter.