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Nothing exciting for me, got up early.. Cat was still fast asleep Yawned .. rolled over Made myself a chorizo omelette and made some pancake mix for the attic full of sleepy teenagers.. who were still up at 4am Remember those flip down seats i put in last year? When you look behind them.. it's become a nursery for all the li'll snails.. cute!! Shhh.. don't wake them up, they're only babies Rode up to my old childhood playground ..everytime i come here it gets more extreme.. When i was a kid, I bust my front tooth on this track when i took a slam on my Kuwahara so i had to have it capped till i stopped growing and had it crowned when i got to 16.. when i was 20 i bust my ankle here.. but after writhing around in agony for a while, i kept riding till the sun went down.. chucked my bike in the back of my £550 Mk2 Fiesta and drove home (with a broken ankle).. the next day it was massive and heavily bruised so i went to get it x-ray'd then plastered.. it was my right foot so i couldn't press the accelerator in the car but rather than use public transport, i used one of the crutches they gave me to press the accelerator along with left foot breaking.. within a week, i had it down.. i was a much less responsible adult in those days ..saying that, i'd only been there for 5mins when i came off on the berm.. grazed my arm, my hip and my saddle.. thankfully, it was 9am so nobody was there to see it ..rode back home and made the sleepy teens so good old northern pancakes.. none of that American nonsense! ..walked down to Sharrowvale to pick my racket up from the shop ..the cat which lives in the pet shop ..spotted this lovely old E-Type out in the rain Ive gone for Luxilon Alu Power 125 Rough, strung at 52lbs if anyone is interested... No? ok, i'll move on.. ..a spot of crate diggin .. a little blast around the plantation this afternoon ..followed by a pint of Moonshine at the Norfolk arms.. featuring threadbare arm of JMC ..

sunday no denim edition… post overalls / hacked at stan ray / vintage finnish over trousers / r-mocs

Briefly.. during lockdown, i acquired a Roland TR-909, i was really enjoying it when my friend who it belonged to, sold it.. what an inconsiderate wanker! I've since bought the boutique versions of the TR-08 and the TR-09 I can't play them live, a'la Jeff Mills so i spend hours programing them ..It's my birthday in Jan.. i'm hoping for a TB-03 squelsh box to add to the mix..

wwii cpo/whitesville/sugarcane/rlpl boots:

I see it more as more of a battle than a mere contest. #WomBat

liking the new 40s jacket but not so hot for the new 40s jeans… the jacket has old yamane style humour rather than csf po-face… x-posting from the waywt thread, plus one: some 1890s shot for the record…

OK... so we have the models, sizes and inseam requirements for all 26. Well done everyone... you gotta love it when a plan comes together 😉 The choice breakdown sees the 411S '42-inspired model as the most popular, followed by the 5150 '50-s Eddie Van Halen model though it must be said there's good coverage across the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s... it's shaping up to be a contest spanning many denim genres... Please also have a final check of the final list below... DM me any issues please I'll email the spreadsheet to Simone tomorrow... then we can sit back and look forward to the kick-off 😀

elegant pair: OOE Yofukuten OA01XX. , the most elegant denim I have used, fades nicely, stands out tall among any other Japanese denim brand. Perfectly done by Ryo and Hiro, I notice its look and feel creates a difference, though a casual silhouette but looks graceful while comparing with other pairs. My pair produced the best roping I ever witnessed. Fades gracefully , blue shade that uncovers gruadully keeps the elegance intact. Leather patch feels like silk patch. Flawless and sewn with absolute perfection. Usually out of stock quickly. perfect pair: No denim enthusiast can go wrong with Warehouse 1001XX , Flagship model of "WAREHOUSE". A perfect weight to use all year round, look and feel, sturdy and long lasting, fades nicely. The cut is a little bit slimmer than Warehouse other models. Vintage Japanese denim journey cannot be completed without 1001XX. Usually out of stock quickly. the most comfortable pair: I have used two pairs of Fullcount FC1108, the most comfortable among other Japanese denim, due to use of Zimbabwe Cotton and 13.7oz weight, stitiching is true Osaka five, fades in vintage way, giving all opportunities for fading including blowouts , roping, train tracks, honeycombs, whisekrs, etc. My 2019 model pair had greenish threads as well in some parts of the pair, making unforgettable experience. In post 2019 models, they changed the threads color scheme. Each of the model above is meant to buy again without any second thought

It has it's benefits but i wouldn't swap it.. when my kid was little we were out in the Peaks every weekend, camping, hiking, fishing, bike riding and such, it was exhausting but incredibly rewarding.. our tent got trampled by cows so i bought a swanky replacement Snow Peak tent.. lockdown happened and he turned into a teenager thereafter, the tent never got used so i sold it.. he now goes camping with his mates.. he's got a Pure e-scooter so he doesn't even rely on me for transport.. His hands were cold last week so i suggested we went to Decathlon today to buy gloves but he was too busy with his mates.. we're supposed to be doing some father / son clothes shopping in Manchester during October half term.. i can pretty much guarantee this ain't going to happen due to his busy schedule.. so make the most of it while you can. Peeps who i used to ride with are either too busy with young families or too out of shape to keep up so you end up doing a lot of shit by yourself.. which might sound heavanly now.. but trust me, it gets old fast.

It’s good to be young, and naive. I missed all the fuzz on db, I was always intimidated by sufu somehow. Thought it was a big, opinionated , crowd. its good to be here now, still young and naive

For me as a judge, 37 wearers are instantly awarded 1 point 😃

I came late to DB, about 2014. It always felt a little cliquey for me and almost passive aggressive if you weren't in the clique or subscribed to a certain style/POV. I certainly never found it as useful for knowledge as sufficient for those very reasons. It was just another place to log in for denim related browsing. Sufu, even 10-13 years ago when it was still a bit volatile was always a better forum in my experience.

Drying after their 13th wash. 8.5 months in.

I see it as more as engagement than a mere battle. #Women

Cool sunlight fade on this turmeric dyed cardigan. Hard to get my phone camera not to smooth out the contrast, I pushed the saturation to better represent how it looks in person. Inside vs outside Armpit Inside the pocket.

She is already born mate 😅😉 Thanks!

Not that anyone asked for it, but I'm casting a vote for #WoMCon as the official contest hashtag. I'd been wearing the 11 oz 0105's all summer. As the weather is cooling, I'm rotating in my Leroy's and Mister Freedom Lot64 LHT. Both of the latter are White Oak denim with the 64's measuring up where I expect the 36 WoM to end up. A lot of top block there, but should drape better in the Shinya fabric. About to send those OA01's off to buyer so I'm net 0 for jeans on the contest!

I tried a pair of the FN-D111's on yesterday, shocked at how much different they feel compared to old FH jeans. Hardware feels pretty much the same, but the front pockets are actually usable! I really don't need another pair of jeans but they're tempting.

I left Sufu about 13 years ago to migrate to db because of the clique that arose here 😅 Glad that the clique finally died out, and we've all now found a place that suits all our denim nerd needs and can be life long pals. Obviously only on the internet.

I've just seen @beautiful_FrEaK baby scan What brilliant news to wake up to.. congratulations!!

Voice-of-Reason is my middle name. The upside of all the above is that many of the Denimbro crowd migrated back/over to Sufu and here we all are again, a big happy denim family!

I've tried to multi-quote this from the vintage thread and failed miserably.. so @AlientoyWorkmachine Regarding Denimbro.. I'll try and nutshell this mo-fo I think the catalyst for the downfall became apparent years earlier when there was a Denimbruin event. To mark the occasion there was going to be a special run of Roy's available for DB members, the anticipation was palpable.. folks couldn't fkin wait.. i think there was going to be 30x pairs or sumat.. Roy only managed to get around 6 pairs made, but instead of distributing them fairly amongst the forum via a raffle or first come first served, they went to friends of the DB hierarchy most of whom having not contributed fk all to the forum for years.. @shredwin_206 called them out over this.. i remember Mr R saying the fallout soured his relationship with Roy and he stepped back for a while, i don't think this was malicious or intentional.. the situation was just very poorly managed... a management style which came back to haunt us years later. A couple of years on and the forum was getting close to maxing out it's allotted server space or some technobollocks.. we all contributed £20 or so to buy a few more boxes to put our pixels in and keep the old ship afloat.. at this time it was still quite buoyant and sufu had slowed to a crawl.. there was zero transparency in the financial transaction, we just trusted the money was going to prolong the life of the forum, i'm in no doubt that it did and i fully expected having to put my hand in my pocket again in 12mths time to buy more space.. Mr R became a bit more active for a short period thereafter which was nice to see.. Time passed and most of the OGs had all but disappeared.. i was always trying to push back against what i saw as fake lifestyle BS.. what would become Influencers / denim-bloggers / Instagram culture in the years following .. poor old Doc_H was left as lone mod to keep our outrageous egos in check with next to zero mod-powers... a helluva lot of weird shit happened, which i could write a book about but isn't really relevant to the story so incredible as it is, i won't bore you with it. The end came when the server maxed out again.. the mod-gods had been absent for quite some time but instead of saying "it's that time of year again folks.. we need some $$$s to keep the forum alive" they just started deleting threads.. as @julian-wolf alluded to.. there was never any consideration taken.. it was just blind panic.. the threads which hadn't been updated for the longest period (the sub-forums) were deleted first.. years of denim history and painstaking, academic-esque research gone at the click of a mouse, we'd put a lot of our time and effort into building this and they didn't even give us a heads up if we wanted to back up our own shit.. it was just management meltdown.. There was talk of rebuilding, most of us were prepared to contribute but i wanted them to hand over the keys to the forum to someone we could trust.. i always thought @CSL was a safe pair of hands (Hi Carl) but no, they wouldn't hand over the reigns, so we migrated back here and it was left to die.. we did have one last push to save the old place.. i set up a email group chat.. it was me, Ooms, Julian, Flash, Maynard, Bartles, b_F, Duke.. a motley crew if there ever was one.., we contributed more to this group chat over a few short months than we'd contributed to the forums in years .. thanks lads, i'll love you always for that. I've got no hard feelings, i never thought Mr R was a bad guy, he would send me postcards out of the blue from his holiday destinations which i've kept, he annoyed the shit out of me at times and i'm sure as hell i annoyed the shit out of him.. the only sadness i feel is for the loss of information, the slice of our denim history gone and it could have been so easily saved.. A forum member T-Bone Slim recovered the M-Series thread for me from the upside down, which i posted here, for that i'll always be grateful.. most were not so lucky. The weird shit, of which there was much.. @Duke Mantee .. having single handedly built the Freewheelers thread from the ground up (like the gifted architect he is) got banned from the forum for.. if i remember rightly 'having an agenda' ? Nope, still doesn't make much sense.. @beautiful_FrEaK was comfort eating throughout Even years later.. i hadn't contributed to DB for quite some time.. lockdown happened during a denim tour.. it was Foxy's turn with the jeans, but this was 2020, the world had changed, Foxy had left his job in Moscow, he and his wife drove across Europe from Berlin to his house on the Isle of Eigg before the borders closed.. i've stayed at Foxy's house, it's fkin miles from the post office, the post is collected weekly by ferry to take it to the mainland, I doubt the ferry was even running, he'd relocating his entire life, lets cut him some slack, but No! .. the DB hierarchy thought this was somehow my doing..@Maynard Friedman tried to step in as the voice of reasonbut they still thought Foxy and I were trying to sabotage the tour because i was still grouchy over what happened.. as i say, fkin bizzarre but that's just Denimbro in a nutshell. ..the jeans turned up sometime later and no apologies were ever made.. The End..

1942 Levis 501xx showing how beautiful the war denim is when faded, and the arcs look just like the pocket design on my FW1942's 😁 Pics via Berberjin

From 06:30 on the guy tries on the 47s in three different sizes: 34, 36 and 38. Interesting to see. While I've been wearing mostly 34 in jeans and 42 in jackets for a not tight, not wide fit, in the last year I've been getting some pants in 36 and some jackets in 46 and both work quite well IMHO.

I was just working my way back through this thread and nearly spat my coffee out on pg330 (just between you and i Chaz.. i think the father could be Casper The Friendly Ghost)

Resurrecting this from the depths… This was a pair of (supposedly) M41030 that didn't quite match up—pink line denim, in stead of white, and a number of other details different from the standard M41030. Well, looking back through the thread, I'm seeing the S.C. & Co - T.Y. rivet shanks with the "25" in the middle, which just came up in the last page or so in the context of a pair I saw on Yahoo that looked like MP-series, but didn't have much on which to base an ID. @Maynard Friedman suggested that they were likely a 1990 production, with the 25 referencing the Toyo Enterprise 25th anniversary. Seemed very plausible. As it happens, these were made from a pretty similar looking pink-line denim to the pair above. Maybe @Graytrain's pair were a very early version, still using left over rivets from 2–3 years earlier, and possibly a transition late-MP / early-M denim?

I’d forgotten completely about the whole saga of finger-pointing surrounding the tour jeans…The amount of conspiracy-theorizing that surrounded the few months’ radio silence of one person on an already long-dead forum was seriously comical. Just to tie it all together, the tour jeans (that were so comprehensively theorized to have been stolen by Foxy) were a pair of the 1890s LeRoy’s repros that were meant to have been for the contest mentioned at the very top of 00’s post. I guess it all comes back around?

You was all made moderators .. there was more moderators than contributors

Recent purchase… 2000 cut, no. 2

Still loving my Midnight 16 oz ranch blouse. The perfect denim jacket for me.

WOMCON. Like it.

Laughed out loud seeing I have the widest waist and shortest hem of all the contest pairs 😂 Looking forward to it! Also big shout out to everyone involved, I can't believe how quick we turned this around, it's like an unheard of sufu miracle! As far as what I'm aiming for, the 1942's (albeit cinchback version) at the 36:15 mark should just about do it (not to mention two grail status to me 1946 pairs before it): And I'll continue to wear my Ooe OA01XX and FC 1101's until contest start! Will be fun to do a side to side next to my WOMCON jeans raw

Great Lakes / Tender Co. / Joe McCoy’s / Freenote / Duke / The Vanishing West / Frank’s

All tcb today

looks like it just you and me with the w.40… looking fwd to it!!! cinch away for the sufu miracle now firmally known as #womcon!!! looking forward to suspended action…

@beautiful_FrEaKCongrats!

Are you there in person? jk Congratulations @beautiful_FrEaK and family, hope all goes well.

That’s one of the others, there are multiple, it’s a family tradition.

Had to give my 1947s a wear today.

J77-AM size M, 9.5/10 condition no flaws - 700 EUR. Acronym x Sacai SAC-J2762 Sage Green Bomber size M, 9.9/10 like new condition with tags - 1350 EUR. J55-MP Black size S, 9/10 no flaws - trade for M or 700 EUR. J65-AK size S, 9/10 no flaws -700 EUR.

Late 90s early Italian production T-shirt, my first evisu aged about 14, now my son’s pyjamas. Check out the twist!

Get comfy.. i've got a long overdue photo-dump We moved into our house 5yrs ago and the bathroom was already fked! I've been bodging the electrics to keep shit working Being an 1880era terrace house, there was never a bathroom, toilet would have been at the end of the garden (now a bike shed) and washing facilities would have been a tin bath in front of the coal fire.. so our bathroom would have been a back bedroom.. It looked like this.. .. there was a false wall to house the electric shower but designed by fkin idiots so one would open the door onto the sink which you would shimmy around before you could close it *face palm* I chalked out my plans full scale on the floor at work ..and started building the cabinets ..bought a lovely hand made concrete basin ..and some wood from https://www.albiontimber.co.uk/ We're not posh enough to have en-suite so much to the families disgust.. i bought a camping toilet from Amazon and put it in the outside loo ..I started building the cabinets in ..took a break for Pakistani mango season ...droooool! ..i didn't do any of the plumbing or tiling, i just planned it all out to the nth degree and bought all the stuff (well you know what i'm like, i spent months doing this ).. turned out the tiler was some kind of tiling god! Now it looks like this.. ..had the shower tray imported from Ireland I wanted the windowsil to drain the water back to the shower tray so rather than taper the fluted pink tiles i made a wooden plinth and cast a silicone mould ..then made a concrete windowsil instead ..turned out pretty well I bought this mid-century Italian medicine cabinet from https://vintarama.com/en-gb in Germany These are the plinths i made from the Ash i bought from Albion ..bits and bobs from Ferm Living ..and Zone Denmark ..i've built a hidden cupboard into the cabinets ..push the door and it clicks open Stacey Solomen can fk off with her scatter cushions.. i've missed my vocation in life as a bathroom designer!

Sorry for the slow response @rbeck.. it's been at least 6mths since my last confession Sure, the frame is a Mid-90s Pace RC200, They were made in Yorkshire, very light, very rigid, very quick The forks are Pace RC31, Flight saddle and Syncros post It's been through a series of incarnations but i think i'm finally done tinkering with it.. It's got Pace Renthal bars, Pauls levers, Pauls Thumbies (with Dura-Ace shifters) Pauls Klampers and Onza grips X-Lite L168 with Ringle Slamma Cooks Bros Racing crank (which @beautiful_FrEaK proxied for me) Pace rings, Syncros Ti BB, Suntour XC Pros, XTR M952 front and rear, CK hubs and Ultradynamicos

A week in Sarajevo… incoming double post… do look away if it’s too many pics! Such a wondeful vibrant place, steeped in good and bad history… sure the multi-religions, multi-ethnicities, multi-cultures would have lived, and live, much more harmoniously if it wasn’t for toxic politics that sadly persists everywhere today Our digs right next to the Latin Bridge Bullet holes on the walls from the 1993-95 war and Seige of Sarajevo, lasting 1,425 days The old town It wasn’t me! It was to prove denim was involved… the site where Gavrilo Princip shot Franz Ferdinand which kicked off WW1

Warehouse Lot. S1003XX 1942 DSB W33 L32 These are unfortunately a bit too small for me. Cold washed, so certainly more shrink in them. They are new, only tried on after a cold wash. They have some cool details among others: painted on arcs copper fly buttons denim pocket bags Approx. measurements: Waist- 44,5cm Front Rise- 31,5cm Back Rise- 43,5 cm Thigh (at crotch)- 33cm Hem Width- 22cm Inseam- 85cm EUR 199+ shipping

Bump!!! I got this Tender hand-thrown blue hadal zone cutaway sgraffito coffee mug just before William closed the UK operations Seems to change colour in the light from deep blue through what looks brown to me It's really nice

Looked through this thread but couldn't find them, l had a whole set of pics of this pair so l must've posted them on denimbro back in the day. Sadly now l've only this pic stolen from lg to show you. Deadstock 1942 501XX sz 36x36 (click the image twice for more clarity) sold by Foremost some years back. Lovely two tone stitching. Hard to believe this pair and the WW2 pair l posted earlier could be produced just a few months apart, yet in some ways they are both world's apart in detail and design.

202s in the early morning. Got them 2017 hardly worn but second hand. Left knee torn, right back pocket as well, pocket entries have been repaired, crotch has been repaired. Have cut them off a few years ago because the original inseam was about 37" post shrink and I got tired of cuffing.

Stupidly warm day here for late February. So much so that a jacket was optional, and a lined jacket even with a t shirt was too much. So I pulled out this old thing that doesn’t see so much wear lately, but it’s still coming along okay.

wild leg twist on these lot 64 SC Awa Ai jeans