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1922 are off to a great start with some nice dirty fades.

Picked up these 4005C recently for a good price Can’t find much info on them, but I guess they’re a different fabric (LHT with a brown, maybe plant dyed warp and a dark weft) version of the 3005C from around 2004–2006. Classic mid-‘50s detailing with a zipper fly, and of course the old editable arcs These have clearly been worn an okay amount based on the lightening around the seat & thighs, but there’s no noticeable damage of any sort, and if I were just looking at the hems, seams, tags, & patch I’d guess that they’d never (or very seldom) been washed The fit’s good, a little on the slim end but still within the range of what I’ve been enjoying wearing recently. I’ll post some fits at some point. Overall, pretty excited for these

Freewheelers Army Civilian Shirt Freewheelers 1922 jeans Nicks boots

@rbeck They’re looking great, looking forward to a real update when the time comes Great Lakes / Tender shades / Ooe / Tezo / Duke / Cane’s + Russell vellies

Good warning and also true to how the vintage jacket fits. Always been a tricky jacket to size because of the strong taper. Usually worn open, bottom unbuttoned, or big drop shoulder. TCB's repro is somewhat elongated, which makes this taper even more noticeable. Here's mcqueen squeezing into one. Looks uncomfortable. But looks cool here with it open

Workers, LL Bean, TCB, Russell Moc

Same ol hat, vintage Rustler jacket, cropped tee, DIY jeans, Good Guys boots. Pleased with how these jeans are coming along. Been about 7 months in em I think?

Finally getting some wear in on the 03s. Only about 10 wears in so not much fading. Considering hemming again so I don’t have to double cuff after the first wash.

Newly hemmed Canes montage / TCB / Buaisou / Buckweat / Rototo (not visible)

Loose fit

I always liked the way Brando wore this brand new 101j too. Huge shoulder.

RRLxDukeMantee collab belt

I've worn a different pair every day this week... and that's the recent pattern... will be seeing if I can focus efforts a bit more!!

Second hand shirt / belafonte / doek

This makes me feel so much better...

I do like hickory, but it's not always easy to wear. My favorite is Indigofera's, which has a light brown base.

PSA, the Storm Cats Drive jacket is very tight in the waist. That's my only jacket which fits comfortably in the shoulders but for which I need to leave not one but 2 buttons undone. Got a size 44, vs 42 or 40 on other brands.

@mlwdp They look nice & thick What are your first impressions? Seem comfortable? What are they made of?

Decided to splurge on some Phigvel socks

geopolitical context: in the 60s indonesia's president sukarno apart from organizing the asia-africa conference and forming the non-aligned movement, withdrawing indo from the un because it did not reflect the new constellation of the world (decolonization, asian and african countries declaring independence from western colonial powers post ww2). creating his own olympics (games of new emerging forces – i still slow jog around the stadium he built for this), also banned the beatles, the rolling stones and other western "ngak-ngik-ngok" (onomatopoeic but also means whinge-whinge-whinge) pop/rock music and tried to create native indo pop music which he called "lenso" (ironically a loanword from the portuguese (also colonized indonesia in the 16th century) meaning a handkerchief but also denotes a popular dance)

@AlientoyWorkmachine totally agree as I'm in the same spot, which OAs are you wearing again? I've been focusing on my WWII pair and they're finally starting to fade a bit, should look good by the time this contest starts.

I'm at a point where I'd love to break in a new pair (from storage), but I really don't need to. It's a good exercise in staying with everything currently in my closet. My OA's are feeling frustratingly slow right now! It's a little challenge to see just how good they can get in the last 3 months or whatnot.

harlequinning through air, mountain, forest n’ rodeo aero / kavu / vintage finnish military/ rw pecos (and then sea with doxa)

Digging my old RRL rough outs. Supposedly RRL worked with a Pennsylvania boot maker who had a contract supplying boots to the US Army in WWII.

Yes there were two different things happening, the yoke switch (as already described) And the switching of the left over right/right over left back panels. The yoke switch around has now been roughly estimated c.1940- August 1942. Whereas the back panels switch around several times between 1937 and 1942. I have a few images but they're on my defunct laptop unfortunately, of levis 501's made between 1937 and 1942 which show variation in the back panel set up. So in the examples you've shown of the FW models, the FW37 and the FW42's have both types of back panel set up you would expect to see within that time frame. It's one of those weird anomalies that l almost didn't want to accept as it was confusing the hell out me and l couldn't date it exactly 😁 Now l understand it is just a feature of that time frame with no real explanations as to why(?) Maybe they were just experimenting with things as there were a few short lived experiments that didn't stay long, for example - the understitched rear belt loop which was a feature on pairs made in and around 1935/36, when the '1922' 501 was replaced by the '1937' model. We still don't know why or what that was all about but there's plenty of speculation.

Ah, there were two switches? I thought it was just one. Or are there two versions for 1937 jeans: both right over left (what LVC, FW and TBC a.o. or doing) and also left over right? 1922 FW 1937 FW 1942 FW 1945 FW 1947 FW 1951 FW

I came across this last weekend. Mingus was my entry point to jazz and Coletrane's "Live at the Village Vanguard" with Eric Dolphy changed my entire conception of what jazz could be. Dolphy and Mingus together, live and in color is transcendent.

I got a new pair of size 2 132s a few months back, and after much careful deliberation decided they’re going to be the only pair of jeans im bringing with me to south america. Funnily enough, I brought my first 132s (also size 2) along to Ecuador almost 10 years ago, and though the fabric was great for the work I was doing, I always felt like I was swimming in them. I’m still within 5 pounds of what I weighed then, but somehow this new pair feels much better, almost an ideal cut for the style I like to wear now. But I ended up doing a few modifications for the trip: First, I added suspender buttons.. I made some leather suspenders earlier in the year and wore them exclusively with these pants, mainly cause the waist was still too big. Debating on keeping the buttons on because the waist issue was solved more recently. A couple months back, I darted the waist, about 2cm on each side. Not professional at all, lol, but it did make a huge difference in the fit and allows me to wear them without suspenders or a belt. Then I made some belt loops to replace the ones I removed in order to fit the suspender buttons. Then today, I decided I’d give them a hem, and use the leftover material to add a proper back pocket for my wallet. The drivers’ pockets are great and very comfortable to use, but their size and location further down my thigh, as opposed to against my butt, makes them much looser and less secure, so I’d rather not keep anything valuable in them. This new pocket is just a cut from the hem scrap hand stitched and “riveted” with some Chicago screws (wish I had copper ones to match!). Here’s the final product all together: I’m excited to wear these in on this trip; they’ll be tucked into motorcycle boots a lot so will hopefully get some interesting fades. Thanks for looking!

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

I picked up the FN-D111. I really like the wider fit of these jeans and how they don’t run super small esp compared to flat head jeans a few years back. The denim is closer to the deep indigo color of the pioneer denim. It crocks a lot more than the jeans I’ve worn the last few years. I’ve only worn them a week but I’ll be washing them soon.

runabout tux again. Brander type 1 is proximity denim. Sample loomstate jeans are nos cone

^Best I can do is awkward fitting room iPhone photos for now 😅 Haven’t figured out a good setup with my actual camera all these years Fading around the circumference of my shin area is from tucking into boots during winter months*