Cold Summer
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It wouldn't be a big deal if makers like Oak Street were just transparent about doing this stuff. It's the deception and obfuscation that makes me never want to buy products from these sorts of brands.
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Freenote Cloth shirt, Hollows belt, TCB Late S40s jeans, John Lofgren Steadfast boots. A rare Flat Headless fit for me.
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3Sixteen crosscut shirt, Sid Mashburn belt, Stevenson trousers, Viberg Service Boots.
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Some nice fades from Inoue-san's Late S40s jeans on IG. Makes me excited to keep wearing mine, though I've mostly been in my TFH 3003xx lately. https://www.instagram.com/p/DM2txoMT550/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MWN4dTluYWZvOW8xcw==
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Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.
Cold Summer replied to cmboland's topic in superdenim
Because "AI" is utopian marketing fluff for large language modeling and (thankfully) not an actual artificial intelligence, and I have a very low opinion of the whole thing in general. After I wrote that post, it occurred to me that someone might also respond that such an idea isn't new and 20 years ago you could photoshop your fades to cheat at a denim competition/general clout for posting pictures online, which is quite true, but the difficulty of doing this (especially convincingly) is a lot higher than telling ChatGPT to Enhance The Fades. Actually now I'm wondering if there have been any documented cases of somebody being found out for faking/photoshopping fades, whether for a contest or anything else. I can't remember hearing of that happening, but perhaps I missed it. -
Thanks! I wrote more about it in this post in the Nice Things thread (and some more if you scroll down.) It makes for a nice backdrop for my WAYWT photos, in addition to being a pretty sweet ride.
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Flat Head western short sleeve, Flat Head 3003xx, New Balance.
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For me, the fragility of cotton stitching is worth the tradeoff of how it looks/fades and especially feels with age. Cotton stitching breaks in and softens in a way that other types don't, which especially makes a difference at areas like the chainstitched waistband. That being said, I don't mind repairing high-stress areas, like the hem, pocket edges, and rear center seam (which are always the areas on my jeans where the stitching tends to break) with more durable poly or poly/cotton thread.
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Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.
Cold Summer replied to cmboland's topic in superdenim
Where it's really going to get weird is people taking photos of their actual jeans and then telling "AI" to enhance the fade. I could see this breaking fade competitions like Indigo Invitational (which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.) The "top fades" already look pretty fake, so it could cause some real chaos if it's hard/impossible to tell if it's "AI" enhanced or not. -
Flat Head Native Check western shirt, Flat Head 3003xx jeans, Wesco Mister Lou boots.
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Astros cap, JCrew tee, Flat Head chambray western short sleeve, Hollows belt, Flat Head 3003xx, New Balance USA.
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Freenote Hawaiian shirt, JCrew tee, Hollows belt, Flat Head 3003xx, Wesco 7500 boots.
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I'm less familiar with Viapiana's work, but based on what I've seen, his stuff seems quite nice as well. I tend to think of him as more of a bespoke maker which I suppose seems like a slightly different category to me, but I've heard that recently he's stopped doing custom orders, which changes the game a bit.
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I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but out of all the one/two-person brands I know of, I'd take Ande Whall, especially from before the earthquake or whatever destroyed his original workshop and he made jeans with hidden rivets and stuff. Ande's jeans were affordable and not $700, he actually made and delivered what you ordered, didn't sue you for putting pictures of his jeans in a book, had a unique design of his own instead of trying to be 1000% accurate repro of this one deadstock pair made for two weeks in May 1943, and was totally in control of his own thing instead of having a single retailer in charge of distribution that would hype his pants to the moon and back. That's a combination of factors that to me at least, is hard to beat. The denim community really did lose a real one with Ande.
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Viberg ball cap, My Epic band tee, Hollows belt, Flat Head 3003xx, 70s Chucks.
