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Throwback to 2009. Here are BIG x Fullcount 1108's. Tons of washes, handfuls of repairs. 15 years later it still sees wear and fits like a glove, actually better than I first got them. Out of all the jeans I have bought throughout the years these have stood the test of time and are probably my favorite. Breaking in a pair of Resolute 710 so only have these 2 pairs in my rotation. I've also had a habit of keeping all the price tags and jean tags of all the different pairs I've owned, so here are the original from the run.

Alot of navy Hat H&M Hoodie Champion Jeans Fullcount 0105w New Balance

Buzz, Buzz, Mister Freedom, TCB, Russell

Pardon the double post but this is indeed a combination of Nice Things and WAYWT. FW '22 jacket, Jackman, Ooe 01's, Quoddy. (and a Wilde Supertramp)

Vintage tee, missing tag so no clue on brand DIY jeans Vans Crocketts

@Broark nice Rivian! I really like the hatchback they teased a few months ago and can see myself getting something along those lines once my VW is run into the ground. I had posted the frame when I got it, but I finished building it up the other day so here's my new mountain bike (and a pic with my hardtail).

It may be rather obvious, but so much American development occurred after the invention of the automobile. So the scale of development became commensurate with that, and really rather hostile towards pedestrian/cyclists. So much of Europe was developed before the autos, so the roads are on a smaller scale and have been (often uncomfortably) retrofitted for autos - which also makes a lot of those places better for pedestrians and cyclists just because of density. This is a big simplification - we definitely need to do better here (one reason I like my town, they’re constantly working on bike accessibility and it’s made a huge difference). But if you live a highway commute away from work like so many, there’s just no practical other way.

Got a new car almost three weeks ago now, very happy with it so far. Had to get something a little larger with the growing family. Also enjoying driving something electric, was getting tired of filling up every week.

Back to back days of fit pics! Temps dropped like 30 degrees overnight, happy to break out a jacket for the first time this year. Freewheelers S-8. YM Factory tee. Ooe Yofukuten OA03. Rick Owens.

Y'all need to start driving tiny micro-cars or what us Europeans would refer to as 'cars' Our roads are just not suitable for these types of vehicles, but while you're driving the market forward it ain't going to change for the rest of us and i'll have to share the cycle lanes with these monstrosities.. i appreciate, they shouldn't be driving in the cycle lanes but our roads are way too narrow for two of these monster trucks to pass on either side of the road unless they do, so it comes down to.. are SUV drivers in the UK incredibly selfish?.. yes! indeed they are. Come on Americans.. it's up to you to save us all from this motoring hell! ..

Not actually today Tilley / Tender x3 / Tezo / Hollows / Russell

M-52/armorlux/west ride/red wing

Agreeing with all points from @AlientoyWorkmachine. I’ve been extremely lucky to live for most of my life in walkable / bikeable parts of my city, but now with more people + more dogs in the family it felt necessary to have a little more space, and that meant (as it does for so many) either spending $4k+ a month on rent or moving farther out into a more residential (& less accessible) part of town. The house we’ve landed in is beautiful and very homey feeling, and I do like a lot of things about the neighborhood overall, but the reality of it is that going anywhere or doing anything requires getting in the car. That really, really sucks, but there’s no clear way to get around it without moving to a very different part of the country—or a different country all together. This is where family is, and this is where work is, so here we are…looking at SUVs just to commute and run the dogs and go get groceries.

Not an especially nice thing but with all the car talk, it’s topical so I’ll throw it in… Here’s our new (second hand) petrol Skoda Karoq we bought 2 weeks ago to replace the Mitsubishi Outlander (petrol hybrid) stolen from outside our house earlier this summer. It’s a bit of a relief not driving around with a 230kg battery in the back! With no offstreet parking (for charging) for a house built in 1908, it’s not practical to have an electric vehicle where I live.

Wearing old stuff today. Jacket is GAP 20 years old next year. Jeez that makes me feel old too... Jeans are vintage Lee made in US from I believe 1995 from care tag. Not worn these much since I got them last year. They have a kind of woolly texture. Best way I can explain it. Close up pic to show. Also pretty thick I'm guess at least 15oz but I'm no expert. Really like the back pockets placement. Hat - H&M Jumper - M&S Shoes - Cons

Finally cold enough to pull out some Shetland sweaters this week and I’m not letting the opportunity slip by Yesterday Harley/Brooks Brothers/Sugar Cane/Rancourt close up of color variegation Today TCB 1890s x 2/Harley/Franks

On top of the blatant copyright infringements it's also just bad design lmao

Late to the car talk, but here it goes... As you'll see a couple pages back, I bought myself a a ~30 year old car earlier this year to be my personal/"fun" car. My other vehicle is a 2015 Honda CR-V. The CR-V is great for day to day family activity and convenience, and course has modern safety features, which is nice when you're transporting two kids. But when it comes to comfort and general driving experience, the Olds wagon absolutely stomps the CR-V, it's not even close. The Olds just floats down the road, it's such a smooth and pleasant car to drive, the seats are cozy velour and it's spacious inside, with a bench seat, no giant center console, and with surprisingly little cabin noise. The 3.1 L V6 has plenty of power, and combined with the four-speed automatic, offers a very satisfying drive. It's nice sounding engine too, the CR-V's engine sounds like a lawn mower in comparison. The CR-V has a much higher quality of fit and finish, and there are some materials and build aspects of the wagon that feel a bit cheap but overall it's sturdy and robust in the same way as a vintage Fender amp I used to own. I absolutely do not like the high-riding feel of SUVs and trucks at all. When I drive the CR-V, it feels harsh and twitchy, and I feel like I'm being laterally jostled around in a way that's totally absent from my wagon, and I think the center of gravity has a lot to do with it. Last weekend I went on a trip with my dad and drove his Ram pickup he got in the last two years or so. It rode pretty decently, but again, there was that annoying lateral rocking. If all you ever drive are trucks you probably don't notice it, but driving an actual car has completely spoiled me. That trip would have been more pleasant in a classic American land yacht like a Chevrolet Caprice Classic or Ford Crown Victoria, or heck, even a Toyota Avalon. If it weren't for child safety aspects I would love to only drive older, pre-2003 cars. New cars, besides being absurdly expensive and almost universally ugly, inspire distrust in various ways: the absurd volume of fragile electronics, giant screens replacing buttons and controls that can be operated by touch while driving, over-the-air "updates," poor visibility, general plasticy cheapness, and so on. Planned obsolescense has been a thing for a long time but it's a lot more glaring now, if something on my wagon breaks I'm much more confident that it can be affordably fixed or replaced than on a new car. Really the only downside to my wagon is safety, and the fuel economy is a bit lacking compared to a comparable modern car. There's something satisfying about driving around in a car with a design I actually like. Maybe it's just because I grew up in the 90s, and still hold 80s/90s cars as my base point of reference, but modern cars look so strange to me. They all have giant wheels, thin sidewall tires, absurdly tall fenders, and tiny, squat little windows with bad visibility, and comically angry expressions on their front ends, and this seems just as true of modern sedans as larger vehicles. What's puzzling to me is why everything has to be a sports car with twitchy handling, harsh suspension, and hard bucket seats, and nobody makes comfortable cars anymore. Even a friggin' Toyota Camry looks and drives like an angry sports car now. I'm not a race car driver, I'm not an angry macho man, I'm just a suburban dad with needlessly nitpicky taste in everything, and nobody makes a new car for people like me. Or at least, not one I could afford; I'm sure I'd love a Volvo V90 if somebody gave me one for free. So I'm completely happy driving an old one.

You’re missing the speed/distance part of the equation here. It’s not just road width in an urban space. It’s far flung bedroom communities being possible - and everything that entails on an infrastructure scale. I don’t think it’s an excuse, but it is a notable challenge that even the most well meaning city councils have to deal with. Add into this the fact that living somewhere bikeable in a mid sized town becomes a real issue of housing affordability. Most people who work in the city center can’t afford to live there, and live on the outskirts where there is quite possibly dirt roads for the last few miles of their drive. So they’ll buy for where they live and drive that beast into the city center. The best parts of the small city I live in, that I will never afford, where biking/walking is the most feasible for most people, houses are north of 1 million easy. That’s impossible for most. It’s essentially a luxury lifestyle perk unless you’re willing to add extra miles every day (I am, for now). At this point with the SUV thing this a sort is a chicken or egg question. It’s hard to change buying habits because the industry - including European manufacturers have quite forcefully fronted SUV’s here for a long time. I think this ship has sailed because very few want to go smaller (my car is a 2014 Mazda 3 hatch…I have no feelings towards it other than I appreciate it goes). When that thing dies I will try hard to find a comparably sized or smaller EV. It will be tough. When we were in Scotland last summer, I wanted to rent a car, but they gave me damn Santa Fe, which I agree was a bit of a squeeze!

After living about 10 years in the Twin Cities and Chicago/Evanston, I've missed the lifestyle of walkable cities and public transit my last few years here. I really enjoyed being able to read while riding the train or bus in to the office or lab. In my present location there is no public transit at all and the city is very bike unfriendly as well. I'm just glad now that I only have to drive 10 min to the office without needing to hop on the highway. Our next car most likely will be an EV, although we are not in the market in the near future. Our present location is relatively ideal for owning an EV because space is abundant, and we rarely need to drive more than 15 minutes to a destination on the daily or even more than the 2-2.5 hours to a bigger city (or airport) or deep nature (UP and northern MI). I work tangentially to the EV industry too so there is some personal investment in the technology.

Large SUVs don't make sense for most places in the world, I get that. But when you're dealing with highways like this and people are consistently going 80+ mph I'd prefer to be visible. If I had it my way I'd live somewhere where I didn't have to rely on a car at all, but we're pigeonholed into it in the US unless you live in NYC. Out of curiosity I looked up a place that I was headed to in town, about a 15-20 minute drive. To get there by bus it would've taken 2.5 hours.

The original is from 12 years ago, which in itself was a variant of the Sasquatch (1131026) from the year before. It was released in Dark Tan (1221004) and Deep Black (1231005)

That flasher... Lol Levi and 501XX on it? come on you guys

Been wearing the 1890s most days since the end of July. Washed twice. Not giving much up yet.

^ Hell yea. We've got an EV too - though my wife mainly drives it. Once our other car bites the dust, which is probably a good ways off, I'm never putting money in an ICE vehicle again, not that I enjoy driving all that much anyways but it's just better in every way - and ours is one that has comparatively crappy range (210 miles). For most lifestyles if you've got a home, it's a convenience not an inconvenience. When we do take longer trips, none of the charging FUD has come to pass (for us). As for me, well, I've been riding the same aluminum fixie/single speed for almost 20 years. Just got back from picking up my first new bike since college. Pretty excited for this one. It's a Wilde Supertramp stock build for those who are into bikes.

Evidently they were careless enough to do just that...peep the top left of the flasher.

Hey @MJF9 and @AlientoyWorkmachine - Some inspiration for you for future wear possibilities in the shape of this original 1922 model 506XX. This is only the second one l think l've seen apart from the one in the levis jacket book and that has no cuffs.

I like to drive small cars but a psychologist would probably say that I’m just compensating for my huge penis 🍆

wwwoooowwww that flasher is so wild for many reasons

This is pertinent to how tall cars are too. As people like to sit higher, each iteration, the cars get higher. I have a pretty low car, so I hate being behind vehicles that I can't see the next car. SUVs as sports cars (RS/AMG/M etc) make no sense to me. For a car to be fast, the center of gravity should be closer to the ground, why bother with a car that wasn't really meant to go around corners? I guess it's a selling point to dads that need to sell a concept to their wife? I remember watching TheSMokingTire do an episode on the Rivian R1T @Broark, that thing is capable!

The first time I was in the US, about ten years ago, in Miami, I had looked at the map and tried to walk. Like I'm used from Europe, at least when you're in the center of town. I didn't have a mobile connection then. So checked before on the net and had a rough idea. I quickly realized how big the distances were. What I had anticipated as a walk of 20 minutes was more than an hour. Also the people at the hotel were shocked, when I told them how I had walked back. Apparently I had walked through a very dangerous neighbourhood where you shouldn't walk through. I actually had a funny feeling but thought my mind was making it up. Luckily nothing happened. So the next day I took the bus. It was a bit unusual. So then I rented a car. I then realized, how much space there is. With many malls and restaurants just one floor and big parking spaces. I NY and SF later walking and public transport was ok. But there I found a car very necessary. And also very easy and convenient to drive and park.

Reviving the music recording discussion here, in my youth I had a Sony dual cassette player/recorder. You could record a track on one cassette, then bounce it over to the second cassette while adding another live track. After repeating this multiple times the initial track(s) would lose fidelity & get darker & murkier sounding, but it definitely had a vibe.

Only thing i can offer this week is an Anna Soba handmade cat mug Charmingly wonky.. all her cats have bumholes

you're stuck paying duties on this P44 as its mothersite-exclusive, last retailer pants are P30AL/BL

I just drove in a borrowed car to Dresden for a bike show. my old Volvo died and live further without a car for myself. with two friends we going to buy one small car to share. it amazes me that the world keeps on pushing towards cars.

Personally, I would take a principled death in my wagon than ignobly survive an accident in a giant SUV. Besides, making stratospheric monthly payments on the big SUV would just make me wish I was dead anyway! @Double 0 Soul Back when I lived in northern Japan in 2011-12, I drive a Suzuki kei car, a front wheel drive box that probably produced less horsepower than a ride-on lawnmower, and I literally drove the thing on solid ice roads for about six months a year with virtually no issues at all, my town was literally buried in snow constantly and I never had any problem getting around in that tiny car or thought what I really needed was a big truck. The truck/SUV crazy in the US is rooted in pure crony capitalism. Government regulation loopholes incentivized auto makers to build big trucks and SUVs because they're subject to less strict standards than smaller cars since they're categorized as "light trucks," which was intended to apply to commercial work vehicles; and thus, this makes them more profitable. And then, through the magical influence of advertising, American consumer taste was sculpted toward these big, profitable vehicles by selling an image of rugged toughness. Once upon a time, men aspired to own a car like a Buick or Mercury that signified you were sophisticated and classy, or a Cadillac/Lincoln if you really wanted to exude rich man vibes. Today, it's all about projecting the image that you're the most braggadocios asshole possible. What's funny is that it's all pretty superficial, my area is chock full of these angry bro-dozer trucks, but they seem like perfectly polite drivers for the most part despite the machismo, and their trucks rarely look like they've ever left the road or carried anything in their beds. I never feel unsafe driving around in my wagon in day to day life. I'm not dunking on any of y'all here who've given pretty reasonable explanations for whatever you drive in this discussion. Just sharing my observations on the general culture and all that.

I'm just eating pizza with the offspring.. 😋

Another data point - a 2025 Volvo XC40 is about 3900 lbs (depending on the trim level). The EX40 (same exact car, but electric) is about 4700 lbs, again, depending on trim level. I don’t think EV’s are a savior, and each person has different needs - and out in rural areas charging infrastructure is an issue etc, but there is a lot of bad info out there that dissuades people from looking into them. I am pretty convinced that if you live or work at a place where you can charge and you drive less than 150 miles a day round trip (conservatively), they’re quite likely to be well suited and make your life easier and save you money over the long term (maintenance is basically changing cabin filters and tires and…that’s it) at least when held to a comparable gas model.

Where will it all end? to be visible / safe amongst the 2 tonne vehicles, you buy a 3t vehicle.. when everyone drives a 3t vehicle you buy 4.. the larger the cars get, the more dangerous roads become for other road users.. and crazy as it sounds, i’d like to be safe and visible too

The price has basically doubled: from JPY 86,100 to 170,500. In 12 years. So according to the 70 rule the Timber Cruiser Index calculates about 6% inflation per year since then.

that answers my question.

****SOLD**** Acronym J82-WS Full Pack Price is $750 shipped to CONUS + 4% through PayPal invoice. Color: Black Size: Medium - TTS Condition: Used 8/10. Minor signs of wear. Some markings on the inside of jacket but not really visible while worn. No rips or tears. Please look at pics carefully.

Jelado USMC loop wheel tee Manufactured by Isamu Ono/Rebuilt. https://jelado.com/products/jelado-usmc-loopwheel-tee-ag82221?_pos=1&_sid=195a25fab&_ss=r tubular hanging knit jersey - Wakayama hanging knitting machine Cotton thread is used for the basic sewing thread, and silk thread is used for the under-stitching of the collar lining Three types of vintage sewing machines are used: FLATLOCK, two-needle wrapper sewing machine (collar binder) UNOIN SPECIAL 52800, a high-speed semi-automatic oiling sewing machine from the late 1930s. for the hem: UNIONSPECIAL G76000

I’m surprised Levi’s are so placid in regards to the use of red tab.. It’s hazy but If I remember rightly.. part of the 2007 lawsuit was not only the placement or colour of tab but it regarded ‘any tab being attached between folded pieces of fabric’ (I can’t remember the exact wording) Levi’s seem much more aggressive in regards to protecting their arcs, flashers or two horse patch, than they do tab.. I mean, we still see tabs, rarely do we see arcs or a patch depicting ‘things’ pulling apart a a pair of jeans.

Tilley / Tender Co. tux / Russell

1922 601xx hiking around Mount Rainier

0105 about 14 months of wear, regular wash

Quite simple - because they don't sell them anymore. When I first moved to the U.S. from London, where I owned a VW Polo, I went to a VW dealership and asked if they had any Polo's or Fox's. The answer was no. They had also never heard of them. They barely had any Golf's. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. I can't buy what is no longer manufactured. The Honda FIT/Jazz is the perfect every day car IMO - Its tiny but cavernous inside and it was discontinued here in 2020/2021. I currently own a Mazda CX-30 which for me is as small a car as I'd want out here from both a perceived safety and visibility perspective but also internal cargo space. California is HUGE, with more recreation opportunities than you can shake a stick at. I drive all over the state with a large cooler, or a raft, or a kayak, or bicycles, or dogs and so on. Not saying this is you @Double 0 Soul - but so many people back home in the UK cannot fathom the size of the U.S., or the distances that we drive, or the geographic sparseness, or the arid conditions we drive in. I have had my CX-30 for two years this week, and I've done 41,000 miles in that time. Dunno about you but I wouldn't want to do 41,000 miles in a small car with a 997cc engine.

And somehow Kuroda and Ueda at the BOJ don’t see it anywhere near 2%