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220XX-47 details

Before/After/Aftermath

J Press/Sugar Cane/Red Wing

it's been awhile Brother Bridge Henry horsehide boots; also bought a new pair with different leather, soles and stitching 😁

Tilley, Tender Co. x3, Tezo, Hoggs (+ morning Luvhaus)

Just ripped the knee. Repairing these every 5 minutes lately.

^ similarly I've got a 12 mini, and while I truly hate having a smartphone at all, it's the least bad version because of the size (same as the old iPhone 4). I keep trying to figure out how I can just go without once this thing kicks the bucket but I haven't sorted it - not with the apps I need for preschool, or the doctor, or the gym I go to which makes you register on this dumb app, or maps, or whatever. Every day I ride by a shitty, muck filled duck pond and envision throwing my phone in there and pedaling off into the sunset.

Or have a tailor make the pockets a little longer! I don’t blame repro makers for not catering specifically to the phone industry… it would be kind of antithetical to the whole idea imo. and phone sizes are getting out of hand anyway! but that’s another topic

Papa nui, universal works, RMC, vans

Well it looks like I have 22 pairs that are keepers, soon to be 23 with the addition of the Word of Mouth Contest jeans. Pure Blue Japan XX-019 Pure Blue Japan Super Rough Kakishibu - 019 Pure Blue Japan Super Rough Aisora - 019 Sugar Cane + Self Edge BSPOW Okinawa Sugar Cane “Type III” black Sugar Cane Anniversary Edition Edo-Ai LVC 1947 501 Warehouse 1001xx Tanuki Amagumo HT ONI - 902ZR Secret Denim Ciano Farmer 901 Cone Mills deadstock The Strike Gold 8104 Shower Slub 3sixteen CT-100xk 3sixteen CT-120xk 3SIXTEEN+ 40BSP Fullcount 1180EC ecru Samurai S0511XXII Otokogi Samurai S211VX Benkei Samurai S004JP Yamamoto Railcar Spikes X080 Roy R01 Ooe Yofukuten OA02 Looking to sell off (minimally worn and/or hemmed): Samurai S004JP Yamamoto Imogene + WIllie Barton Slim Vidalia Mills Pure Blue Japan Slim Tapered stretch APC Petit Standard APC Petit New Standard TCB 50’s Slim R Jeans Railcair X084 Limited 9.5oz in Cone Mills

2x Type 492 Bench Shirts today, matching pressed buttons = cross-buttoning madness also feat. Achille’s Heel Type 132

👀 I mean, all kinks are welcome. I don't think any of us minds what everyone else gets up to behind closed doors.

I got an iPhone 6S when it came out in fall 2015, and used one all the way until fall 2021. Then I got an iPhone SE, which is pretty much the same form factor as the 6S, just with newer hardware inside. It's still going strong so I suspect I'll keep using it until something catastrophic happens or it's no longer supported. I've never felt like I needed a bigger phone with tons of cameras or other features. I feel like a bigger, fancier phone would just tempt me to use it more, which isn't really appealing since I waste enough time on the phone as-is.

I don’t have the time or patience to send my jeans off to be hemmed with a chainstitch. My mom is able to hem and just use a single needle stitch and that works for me. All I care about is the right length. It all fades and gets abused the same by me. Ha

I avoid fone fadezz with a phone designed for smuggling into prisons.. alas, it can be a little embarrassing ‘getting it out’ in public

It reminds me of some of the older Self Edge website pictures where the fit looks great in a photo but may be impractical or even slightly uncomfortable to wear once you are no longer standing still with your arms by your side and start moving/bending your body, raising your arms, etc…

In all fairness, for hemming you simply cut the inseam to the desired/needed length and sew it. Nobody is going to unpick the old hem first (unless of course you only need 0.5 cm shorter. Then one might unravel the old stitching, unfold the hem and cut a little bit).

When my kid was a toddler he would pull all the books off the bookshelf so i boxed everything up which i didn't want to get trashed and shoved them in my parents attic, i still don't have the space for it all so there it's stayed.. I'm pretty sure 2003 was the first ever catalogue SC produced to showcase the release of their new range with the SC product codes Enjoy, you'll not find this elsewhere on the webz.. The 2003 catalogue wouldn't fit in the scanner due to thickness so i've had to bulldog clip it open and photograph it. Hawaii Okinawa Y'all owe me a pint for this.. it took me fkin ages with my cranky old scanner.. 2006 Catalogue There was a period (post 2007) when existing stock of SC-47s were being sold with the arcs ripped out by retailers.. this was followed by a period where they were being manufactured without arcs but they still had the red tab.. then the tabs were being cut by retailers.. then SC started making them without tabs or arcs, as we see today.. There must have been constant lawsuit murmurings within the denim industry .. the old Surgarcane MP jeans had very Levi's-esque arcs.. albeit they were still broken (Kiya has commented in the past, on another forum that he thinks the breaking of the arcs was an attempt by SC to distance themselves from Levi's arcs) this is probably the best explanation i've heard as to why.. but if so, they were worried about repercussions as far back as the 1980s.. As we know, SC distanced themselves entirely from Levi / Wrangler / Lee for the 1998 series of jeans (this could be down to concerns over legal action) .. then they took the bold move to resurrect arcs and tabs in 2003.. this must have ruffled a few feathers at Levi's because by 2006 the 1947s 1955s and 1966 repros had their arcs omitted from the catalogue even though they were still being made and sold with arcs. If you look closely at the thumbnail, they've tried and failed to cover them with the guarantee ticket.. this catalogue would have been printed 18mths before the 2007 lawsuit You're Welcome

I'm in a reflective mood today.. In the early to mid 90s i was living in a shithole of a bedsit and barely affording my £28/wk rent.. when it came to buying clothes, my budget wouldn't stretch to new so i just bought vintage.. In the days before the internet, i had no clue as to what i was buying other than the fact they were old Levi's and a quarter of the price of the 501s you could buy on the high street.. A couple of years passed and i started to earn a bit more £££s.. i bought a pair of 555 LVC-47s.. in retrospect, this was probably the first time it occured to me that the vintage Levi's i'd been buying previously could be from different eras (ikr? .. you internet kids don't know you're born) around 2003 i bought another pair of LVC and wanted to get them hemmed.. back then I didn't know what a Union Special was, all i knew was i wanted the hem to be the same as the existing hem.. ie- 'not single stitch' .. i took them to a laundrette who did alterations but they said they couldn't do it.. i would have to find someone with a machine that could chainstitch.. i went down to Ted Williams.. a proper old boys tailor on London Rd who said he could chainstitch but it wouldn't look exactly the same because the hem was done with a chainstitching machine rather than a sewing machine with a chainstitch setting.. plus he didn't think his needles would be strong enough to penetrate the layers of denim.. more confused than ever, i found myself down a gennel and up a rickety fire escape to Terrace Tailors on a Sheffield backstreet.. the room had a massive cross on the wall with candles either side and a polaroid of the tailor himself kissing the hand of Pope John Paul II ..? I explained what i wanted and tape measure around his neck. he took me into another room with a rail full of clothing.. top rail was garments waiting to be altered, bottom rail was altered.. (this is the single most significant part of my entire journey through the denimsphere) he pulled out a pair of SC-47s and showed me the hem.. it blew my tiny mind.. i didn't even know Japanese repros existed.. i almost had to go light one of the candles He said they were from a small menswear shop in Sheff called Brother 2 Brother.. he would hem them (a little longer to allow for shrinkage?) using his sewing machine which could chainstitch.. I knew where B2B was, i'd just never been in, they stocked the likes of Maharishi, D&G, Margaret Howell, Dries Van Noten and such.. (high end streetwear through to mid-range fashion labels) this was well before the 2008 heritage boom so 'menswear' didn't yet equate to costly workwear, shops following the JP retail model didn't exist back then.. Nigel Cabourn was still designing highstreet tat for Debenhams rather than pricey Everest-wear. The guys who worked at B2B were always immaculately dressed (in their shiny shoes) i just wasn't (in my tatty randomly sized vtg Levi's, or skateboard jeans from a previous lifetime . i never went in because my pockets were never deep enough to buy anything, the labels were not my steeze and i felt intimidated by the smartly dressed staff, all of whom were a good 10yrs older than me.. but i was desperate to go nerd out over the Sugarcanes.. Niro (the UK distributor of SC) was established as a clothing store in 1986 but i'm not sure exactly when they became the Sugarcane distributor so maybe these SCs came from Niro or maybe they were bought retail by the B2B buyer on a trip to Japan?.. either of these explanations could account for the eye watering price tags.. my questions were many and looking back.. i think they knew as little about these jeans as i did.. they gave me a 2003 Sugarcane Catalogue (to shut me up) which i've kept.. I think this was the first catalogue Sugarcane ever produced, i've never seen anything predating it. it's on the cusp of the SC product codes after they moved on from M .. it's more substantial, more of a yearbook than the magazine type catalogues which would come thereafter.. in the months following i bought a marked down pair of SC-47s from B2B, returned by a customer because they were too small after washing... the sufu sizedown 3 craze was yet to happen A couple of years later, B2B moved premises to a larger retail space underneath the recently opened West One development (across the road from The Designers Republic) a friend of mine did the electrical work for the shopfit.. he got me the 2006 Sugarcane catalogue, it was in here that i first spotted the LoneWolf Mechanic boots.. the 2010 catalogue which i've posted here previously (MF thread.. years ago) came from Vari. I couldn't afford B2B asking price for Sugarcanes so i found myself on the internet.. Hirofumi Udono at Vari was great to deal with, he spoke perfect English and was willing to ship internationally. He lined me up with Hawaii's, Lonewolf boots, Whitesville & Cushman sweats..ect.. i was wearing SC-47s around the time my kid was born in 2009.. (another reason why I’m so attached to them) i didn't do WAYWT back then.. i didn't have the balls but seen here (blurry candid shot) loading the car up with Woolrich Woolen Mills, chambray Upland shirt from the Daiki Suzuki era I found myself here at sufu around 2006/7.. anyway.. enough of all this reminiscing.. Maynard spotted these while searching for his recently acquired SC-66 and gave me a hola.. ..knowing my pathetic inability to resist.. i didn't .. so In a nostalgic denim haze, i've dug out the rest of my SC-47 collection. ..first 4 pairs are raw denim, last pair are current wearers but previously o/w, check out he different hues ..from left, 1991-1997.. 2003-2007 I took this shot of he o/w pair back in 2013 before chucking them on the pile ..i've just got them back from a hem job at soas so i've recreated it A bit more graff, a few extra MMs on the waistline and the JMC sweat is a little more faded 2003 & 2006 Catalogues can be seen here

Denime - Ooe - Chucks

Freewheelers 30s tux, cinched and beltless / Buckweat

FW, BB, FW, Lofgren

MF/Drake's/MF/FC/Sebago

Mended the cuffs on my Lee cowboy jacket. Dirty job, needed to get donen papa nui, Lee, fullcount, vans

contribootin’ aero tcb sugar cane russell

I had to get rid of my last APC jacekt as I gained a few pounds and the size L wasn't going to cut it. Picked up this unworn closet (barn) find in XL for under $100. First time wearing it today. APC denim is so damn good.

There were 2 pairs up there a couple of weeks ago!

@OutSider I give you the iPhone holster

I'll let you into a little secret.. most of us carry a small Louis Vuitton clutch bag.. but Shh! don't tell anyone Don't start!

I agree phones are getting way out of hand. I'll be downsizing for my next one. Was just a general complaint with this "hobby". Still adjusting to not being able to try stuff on before I buy.

220XX-47's fresh out of the wash - I'll do some more details when they're properly dry tomorrow.

Spent a long weekend in the Denver area, enjoyed some proper cooler weather. Even saw some snow! That's a big deal for us. FW watch cap. FW M-1951. FW sweat. FW 1942. Blundstone.

Pulled my old pair of 1966s out of the attic while digging out some sale items (https://www.instagram.com/jim.shoppe/ ). These *aren’t* for sale but they look neat!

Freewheelers 1920s tux

Phigvel phigvel Wesco

Great Lakes / Tender Co. / Rocky Mountain Featherbed / Tezomeya / Duke’s / The Vanishing West / Frank’s

From a recent vintage market. Pic by @Illcutz Cap- self made Hoodie- warehouse Jacket- style eyes Pantaloons- warehouse

I struggle with mirror selfies but this one seemed to turn out passable. FW x 3, Lofgren sneakers.

New York Hat Co // Dry Bones // MF // Viberg x Iron Heart

Buzz Rickson Uniqlo jumper Warehouse 1001XX 25th Anniversary John Lofgren M43

Great Lakes x2 / Hollows / Cane’s / Frank’s

TCB jacket, Tender sweater, SDA pants, golden retriever.

Freewheelers - WW2 tux (newly hemmed by @Mr Black), Ironalls and sweatshirt / Converse Timeline / @Duke Mantee and Rototo not visible

Woop! i've still got one, the black one, had no idea it was worth anything

wore my oldest tender shirt (butterfly in plain calico) to do some promo content for my new book MONGREL KAMPUNG, deja disponible from Ugly Duckling Presse in NYC there might be some sufu-relevant lines in it! sufu friends in north america can buy the book straight from my publisher https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/mongrel-kampung/ in amsterdam it's available from Stichting Perdu in the UK it may eventually be available at yr local waterstone's but maybe better to order it from yr local indies, those who are particular about our books screen-20241104-214835~2.mp4

runabout type 1 Freewheelers 1937 Nicks boots

@TripicalMidbooster Welcome to Sufu! Arket/Lee/Ooe Yofukuten/Duke (hidden)/Truman Boots