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Shame on me, this is my first update! I *LOVE* these jeans, they're flattering and comfortable. I have missed one single day since the beginning, I was sick and stayed in bed most of that day. Here's a little photo dump from the last few days. We shot a couple promo videos in a great venue in Genova, Castello Mackenzie. Rehearsals always start with coffee Our mimosa tree in full bloom right in time for international woman's day Mini hike today

You can't beat an old door. Cap- self made Cheapo wool triangle scarf off ebay. Probs meant for women but hey it's 2025. Tcb chore Buzz m51's YMC

deadstock Helmut Lang brown type 3 from 25 years ago, OG-107, Carpe Diem would have showed this off sooner if my regular chair hadn’t broken down. Only just got a backup manual chair to be able to get out of bed. Waiting on bureaucracy to replace a power cable….

Papa Nui x The Major's Tailor cap / Freewheelers 1946-47 506XX & Trackwalker Overalls / Nicks boots

DSB 47

early days: but currently consider these to actually be pretty perfect as a pair… nice work Simone! subtle but extremely wearable: goes with a range of styles doesn’t scream but has nice balance (in terms of pattern and fabric weight): suits both casual and more public situations… am enjoying (imagine it will be good across seasons too…)

1002 Leepro

Usual Sunday shananigans... Freewheelers x 4 / @Duke Mantee non-vis / Converse MiJ

Stopped through the Bay Area on my way back to Seattle and spent an afternoon working on a close friend’s new (to her) Saab.. it was freezing there yesterday!!! im wearing a vintage jacket, rocky mtn featherbed hoodie, duke belt, tender 132p and flat head boots.. and some merino underlayers.. and 2 pairs of socks lol

American Optical, J Crew, Sugar Cane, Coronado Leather, 3Sixteen, Clarks

Before wash #2 Pocket bags are fading even faster than the denim itself!

Denime - Denime - Duke - 45RPM - RW

Papa nui, dehen 1920, Lee, buzz, fullcount, vans

New jacket, might be a bit too ahh... neat... fitting for my taste. Probably could have gone up a size Neat Style x Denim Bridge s906xx Type I Codina x Rite Stuff belt Neat Style Kiwami WWII Nicks boots

Been lurking for a bit but first time posting here. Hopefully I did this right. Cheers TCB 50s / Samurai Heavy Chinos / Blundstone

Fit pic courtesy of my daughter TCB 50s Vintage sweatshirt Jordans

Tender / WMJ / Tender

Getting ready to send this thing in for some real repairs Hole forming on the arm - not going to let that worsen Close to a dozen areas fraying on the right arm alone Waist beginning to separate

Vintage / SCSC 1943 tux / FW / @Duke Mantee / Brother Bridge

After the first wash

MF cap and shirt Julian belt WOM Whites

Bump indeed... posted this before... MF RBs plus SC Okinawa denim have been in my mind lately... Bought Nov 2017... wore it a lot for a few years... snugger than I wear most jackets these days (or have I grown?!)... lots of life left though

1946-47 506xx new vs 2 years, 9 months. Wear pattern partly backpack related I think. Also RIP my hair 🥲

Took a little vacation to Mexico and tried to wear them as much as possible even though it pushed 90 degrees Fahrenheit. But so dang glad to be home, the smog was really bad, my wife got sick, plus I was mugged by our “taxi driver”. Ugh. I sometimes forget how lovely where I live is, good clean air, good nature and nice people. Some highlights though were the whales, both humpbacks and orcas, dolphins, tasty food, good weather, nice place to stay with great sunsets, beautiful dancing, nightly fireworks and really good margaritas! word of mouth contest jeans 411S warehouse shirt duke mantee belt 3sixteen x crescent down works vest nike trail running shoes

^ Same plans here! Clear skies today, and dirt plenty soft after a couple weeks of rain, so we took the opportunity to pick up some exciting starts & put them in the ground plus (not shown) a healthy looking little finger lime tree, a lilac, geranium, and some crawling time for between the walk way tiles. Jeans still feeling great! feat. Union Special cap, Skyway Man tee, Hollows belt, wet Russells

Mister Freedom / Fruit of the Loom / @Duke Mantee / WMJ 5150 / Viberg Boondockers (prompted by seeing @Jared_Lee @vIGGiou riou sporting their Ranch Blouses!)

I don’t know what wash number this was (perhaps 5 or 6) but couldn’t resist a few shots in the breezy back garden seeing as it’s so spring-like out today. Varying light conditions but tried to capture the colour as realistically as I could, the real colour lies somewhere between the light and dark ones ha. I love these jeans.

S1003XX hemmed, washed again, and tried on. Yeah, I like these. Still mystery around what the fabric is - even wondered whether it was the same as the Signet x Warehouse contest jeans fabric. That was said to be a WW2 fabric, and had the same mustard selvedge id.

My lad was playing football on the east cost near Filey, about 1.5 hours away from home, so we made a trip to the beach there. A 6-1 cup win and a goal for Junior MJF9 made for a good morning Filey is a really dilapidated old English seaside town... but, regardless, we do like to be beside the seaside We were Hank Marvin so the fish 'n' chips never lasted long Staged fit pics of the WoM 5150s with the other stuff I'm wearing regularly... not much to see yet... this looks like being a slow burn for me And nope... a quick sea-wash didn't tempt me... this time

Here's one for the collectors.. ..bonus Lenny photo ..it's a 35yr old deadstock Silverstone 506xx repro from 1990 ..according to 'denim legend'.. Silverstone (and subsequently Ground-Alls) went out of business because of the exacting standards of the perfectionist owners.. i don't know if this is true or denim-lore but they did go bankrupt producing an incredible repro during the golden age / largest denim-boom on the planet ..the very first cowhorn patch which has been oiled annually so it doesn't crack shirt weight denim as we would expect ..you'll not see another one of these this week, month, year.. probably ever

Been lacking on updates, but I snapped a couple of photos this weekend. Enjoying the jeans a lot so far, just not getting much sleep these days.

Future Monsters x Ebbets wool Cap Thrifted Quilted Cotton Cardigan Vintage Levis trucker Mohammed Ali T Vtg belt with brass snake Cheapo Wide leg denim by H&M Laredo beaters

Some of my favorite Union Special shirts: Got the first two (Neal Cassidy plus Foreman) from Seiichiro around 2020. Both have aged really well; I love the puckering on the Foreman, although the color on that one’s faded a little fast for my liking. Both are 50/50ish cotton/linen blends. The Neal is a little small on me now, but the Foreman still fits perfect. The contrast & colors are truest on the collar shots. Got this salt & peppery chambray Hammersmith off Yahoo in 2019 or 2020 I think. It’s probably my most-worn cotton chambray shirt from Freewheelers, although I did just pick up a lighter S&P Neal shirt (prob. the exact same one our own Neal’s got on, above) from Yahoo a few weeks ago that I’m looking forward to. Very comfortable fabric. My very favorite shirt—maybe ever—is this Rivet Gunner (the red one) that I picked up in 2022 or so. No photos that I’ve taken manage to do the fabric justice. I was ecstatic to find a second one recently (the green), not too heavily used. It just arrived in the same shipment as the S&P Neal; I still haven’t even worn it out. Bonus shot of all of the above crumpled on the table, for color reference:

Sunday morning coffee dog walks in the 311

Dropped by my long-time favorite pub yesterday—Schmidt’s, in Albany, for anyone in the area—for a couple pints, plus a pizza (not pictured) from another favorite joint over on that side of town. Always a great feel to the place, which doubles as a tobacconist (or maybe it doubles as a pub). They keep fresh Old Speckled Hen on tap, my consistent go-to—but also usually have one or two good Belgians, often from my old favorite Quebecois brewery Unibroue. The pictured table is incidentally where I wrote a good chunk of my thesis, a couple of years ago now.

RRL, Orgueil, Julian belt, WOM, Shoes Like Pottery

Warehouse, Buzz, Warehouse, New Balance.

…& After

Nothing much to show on my end. These are nights and weekends only so not much heavy wear. I really like the fit and fabric though. The way I oversized them has left me with a lot of room in the hip and seat making for very comfortable cycle commuting, but being a true '50s cut they are still pretty straight through the hip which I like. I'm going longer between washes right now because of the light wear. I haven't washed at all since the start and likely won't until late March or April. We'll see how that changes as the weather warms up and it gets into motorcycle season.

Stevenson, Sugar Cane, Barbour, 3sixteen, Georgia Boot. Probably could’ve ditched one of the jackets today, but I’m not ready to give up any layers just yet..

S516xx. Probably gonna get a wash soon. Can’t remember the last time it had one, maybe even 2023. I have a lot of jackets so none of them develop too quickly but this gets a lot of use in the colder months. It’s a really soft denim these days but started out quite stiff. My favorite part so far is probably the puckering on the hem.

SInce there are plenty of models available (or were at one point) and we already have some discussions in various threads, I thought, it would be fun to have a dedicated thread to the 30s cinch back models to share fit pics, fades and the different models of the various makers. According to TCB it is differentiated roughly between the early, mid and late 1937 models. These are the main difference of the models as our resident scholar on this matter Dr Heech had written before here: "Lvc 1937 at the bottom, Csf 1941 in the middle and FW42's at the top. Both the repro 37 and 42 models have the standard yoke set up, whereas the pair in the middle do not. The standard yoke set up is what we are used to seeing on 501's made from August 1942 up until the present day which sees the bottom panels overlap the top ones, like on the lvc 37's and FW42's shown." So the yoke: 1937- right over left 1941- top over bottom 1942- back to standard from then on bottom over top and left over right. Some issues of the last years: TCB 30s Jeans C Vintage pair of Mr Koizumi from TCB site: Freewheelers Lot.601 XXC 1937 WAREHOUSE - HINOYA EXCLUSIVE - HINOYA 75th Anniversary Model - 1003HXX-DSB Freewheelers Lot 601 XX 1942 SUGAR CANE Super “Denim” Collectibles Lot No. SC49005 BLUE DENIM WAIST OVERALLS “1942” Cushman 22192 1937 MODEL

Vintage rayon shirt, At Last & Co. 147, Converse

Last weekend a great honor was bestowed upon me. I was crowned 'musician of the year' at the Monterey Jazz Bash (an event I've been performing at for about 25 years). The ceremony was a solemn and serious affair, as the photos below illustrate.

Phigvel pocket tshirt Phigvel chino workaday trousers Wesco black Chromexcel boss

This ones a good story. This was my dad’s restaurant he owned in Seattle in the mid-late 80s. The story goes that when he and his brother purchased the business, they didn’t want to demolish the cool, vintage “Leroys Grill” neon sign, so they just decided to name it Leroys. They found a bunch of branded gear in the attic and gave it away (wasn’t really a ‘buy a t-shirt’ kind of establishment during their time). By the time he passed, he only had one “Leroys” sweater left, and he gave it to my sister. The Christmas after he passed, my mom gave this to me. She randomly stumbled across it on Etsy being sold by a vintage reseller. No backstory as to where it was found (probably a thrift store of course). Definitely one of my prized possessions

OA / WMJ / Shitkickers (blundstones).

It's this time of the year again. Carnival. Or like they call it here "Fastnacht". So we visited a small procession in a nearby village.

Vintage Vanson(white label)/whitesville(no vis)/samurai/red wing/triumph

More S516XX, with S601XX - same denim, jeans have been worn and washed more. Also love the puckering on the hem of the jacket.