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no white socks today… autumn broons n greens… barbour/filson/tcb/canes/timberland plus surplus bag…

FC/Drake's/FC/Jean Shop/Board Room (sorry @Double 0 Soul)/Alden

Bottom half same as the last few posts. Newly acquired John Gluckow shirt (from S&S, first time in the new Berkeley store). RMC undershirt. Vintage hat also recently acquired.

Alran Sully chèvre, MeiSi threads, RiRi zip and Hasi Hoto snaps … pretty much the best spec of every component … for our postie 20 pieces of leather and about 1000 stitches

Papa nui, anatomica, buzz, fullcount, vans

Freewheelers 1927 type 1 Freewheelers 1937 jeans

Freewheelers x 2 / Ooe / At Last Lot 162 / Viberg / @Duke Mantee not visible

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

Vintage Barbour Butcher Products sport shirt Warehouse T Warehouse DD-1947 Alden

50 shades of indigo. A new RAW film. Hahahhaha

Denime/Bosie/Sugar Cane/Red Wing better close-up of textures and colors

Still mostly same. Inis meain, Ooe Tux, Kapital, red wing

It's cold out there. Wool coat vintage Fullcount 0105w Clarks

Father’s day activities and fit

At Last Lot 147 tux (inc belt skimmer jacket) / Freewheelers / @Duke Mantee / Converse Timeline / Rototo not visible

BiGxFullcount Contest Jeans

I’ve got a feeling Sushi has a hand in this … there’s also a special Stay Brave sweat

I live in a tri-city area where each of the 3 small cities within a 30 min radius peaked in a different era of 20th century America (and really in successive eras in a way), and it is interesting to see the differences in urban design among them along with a gradual shift towards cultural homogenization over time One peaked in the 1920s-1930s and significantly declined post-WW2. This city had (and still has to an extent) a quaint walkable downtown with many local shops even if it is now in decline overall. There are lots of cool homes and mansions from the 20's-30's and more deco architecture as well in various states of repair. It's actually a pleasant and enjoyable place to walk around. Another city peaked in the post-WW2 auto manufacturing boom and began a rapid decline in the 60's/70's. Houses tend to be more of the smaller postwar variety and many are in significant disrepair. Walkability is much lower here as well due to the auto-friendly nature necessitated by its primary employers. We've spent much less time here, partly because it's not very pedestrian friendly. The 3rd city (which is where we live) began to peak from the 60s-90s. Houses tend to be much more mid-century at the early end of things to homogeneous McMansions at the later end of things. There are minimal walkable areas of commerce and relatively few small businesses. Most everything is car reliant and big box stores. Everything is cleaner and "better kept", but much more boring.

Definitely the last: Wickett & Craig harness and Japanese hardware

FW 1927 type 1. FW 504xx Denim Pullover. FW 1922 jeans

504xx arrived and fit is spot on for me in a 40. paired with the 1927 type 1 and 1922 jeans

Ooe again / Anatomica Big Yank / FW Trailblazer / FW Ironalls / FW WW2 / @Duke Mantee / Brother Bridge

Edit: I wasn’t feeling it. Been leaning more into the 70s vibes lately, and going to a show later in Richmond, so decided to reall lean into it today. Also did some fresh repairs to my Korean War M-52 with some Samurai scraps I had laying around. vintage/amanda shires/full count/red wing

J Press/Sugar Cane/Red Wing

We have a neighbourhoods thread in need of a bump.. take a few photos, do a li'll write up.. I live in a bit of a S10/S11 bubble, the shops and bars around here are doing really well, folks have cash to spend, whereas our city center is some kind of boarded up dystopian nightmare.. littered with homeless peeps, beggers, crackheads, god-grifters and Deliveroo riders .. there was a fked up sex worker having a shit on the doorstep opposite my work this morning.. she wiped her arse on a towel and left it on the floor along with her knee length puffa jacket.. she'll regret that tonight, it's currently 1C and snowing heavily.

Whenever we drive from Austin to Houston to visit my wife's family we pass through so many smaller towns that are borderline abandoned. I'll never understand how the people that are still there manage to hold out keep things going. Never lived in an town like that so it seems really foreign to me. Although there are some towns that do have nice little downtown areas with a seemingly growing populations (relatively of course, lots of people are actively leaving Austin / Houston to settle in lower COL areas where they can actually afford homes). Having made that drive for 10+ years now I can easily point out the ones that have made improvements. Definitely a larger topic of discussion but it'll continue to negatively impact smaller mom and pop shops for the most part.

I heard there’s a rotund fellow with a bushy white beard who wears a red suit and is looking for a new thick black leather belt with a big buckle. Don’t close that order book just yet…

Yeah - sorry - kinda quoting myself when I said earlier the last couple for the holidays, then I got a request I could sneak in January will be the next belts (if I’m asked) 👍

🤣Apologies are in order to you as well it seems. My sincerest.

I rode up to the old Ski Village yesterday from Kelham Island It was built on the land which used to be Parkwood Springs where folks would live next door to the heavy industry where they worked .. you'd pop out your front door and into the foundry next door.. "see'ya toinght love" kids would play on the slag heaps, you'd be lucky to live to 40.. ..the land was flattened in a slum clearance and folks were relocated to places like Park Hill or Kelvin Flats, it's still toxic af and constantly monitored. When i was a school kid, i did a 24hr ski- (well snowboard) -athon at the Ski Village for Comic Relief.. i say 'did' we just got stoned and fked around for charity. It was the largest artificial ski resort in Europe at that time.. our freestyle Olympians trained here.. when the business hit hard times, it was torched.. by 2016 it had suffered a further 50+ arson attacks.. you'd often see the hillside in flames. In the early 2000s it was just wasteland.. i used to go to allnighters here, namely NY Sushi or Phonetics, watching the sun rise over the city while the ground shook with base was a sight to behold Last time i was here in 2015 it looked like this.. Then a traveling community moved in for a few years (unofficial trailer park) till the council evicted them.. the gates are missing now, i think they got weighed in for scrap... just massive boulders keeping vehicles out ..and now, it's been given back to nature.. a 2km urban MTB trail has been dug around the perimeter.. zero help from council funding, just goodwill of the peeps.. local boy Steve Pete shows us how it sould be ridden ..and us mere mortals ..looking down the last remaining bit of dry ski slope, keeping it on theme.. sleeve of a Full Count sweatshirt ..iphone 4 pano over the city ..

My kid keeps destroying pants. I’ll have to sew in double knees at some point. Some 80s Levi’s with some serious leg twist, nippers that prob shouldn’t be worn much anymore, wranglers and some modern carhartt that didn’t hold up nearly as well as the other pants. I used some flat head and roy denim scraps as well as some canvas and flannel fabric swatches from Seuvas.

I get my hat repairs done at Joyride Vintage/ Garrahan Hat Co. in Orange, CA. Last time I was there I bought this latest addition to my collection. It's a Knox. I didn't yet have a hat with a turned up brim & this one filled the need.

Hat - mitch&ness Jumper - uniqlo Shoes - NB Levis 501xx vintage 90s Cringed as I put my foot through the knee this morning.

More 0105.

Wickett & Craig heavyweight bridle, snakeskin, vintage glass and antique nickel hardware

This could be a reach and unrelated but seeing the storefront just brings it up - the collapse of main streets/small retailers in so many towns and smaller cities is one of the biggest bummers of whatever you want to call the highway system/tech boom/post-covid long era we’re in. It’s not happening everywhere but it’s happened in so many places that really would be wonderful little communities if they hadn’t gotten sold out by any number of forces. I hope Hudson’s Hills vagueries keep open the possibility for another spot - but it’s just in the abstract, I’m not sure when I’d pass through Gboro again. I would think the main issue with this stuff is I would bet in a town like Greensboro, the store probably has a tough time making the argument for the cost of the goods to enough of average residents, and that is the support that is so crucial to brick and mortar. I still don’t know how my local shop stays open unless they do brisk online business - every time I’m in there it’s more staff than customers.

If the apology is for (the perennially unforgivable) white socks then it should be directed at me! 😂

@youngofthesoonest I’ve been eyeing the hardenco jeans program for my kids. Where as they grow out of a size you send them back and get the next size up. All are pre worn and handed down. But love anything that supports keeping garments alive over fast fashion

Had some photos taken by John Watson of the Radavist of some of my bikes while wearing my DD-1004XX. Side note, I'm still on the look out for hand me down denim for my son...

0105 starting to wear thin in a few places now

overloading the already stretched tan quota of the page... 50s jc higgins - orslow - tcb - russells

Ran the Manchester Half Marathon today. Now off to eat Thai food and drink Thai beer. Baracuta Kamakura shirts Duke FC Tim's

"And now for something completely different" Feeling nostalgic. Couldn't afford these back in high school. Now I can. 80's Guess jeans. Always thought they nailed the gray/black color. RRL shirt Buck Mason Field-spec heavy tee (highly recommend!) Nike 79 Tailwind

Stevenson loopwheeled sweat shirt. Warehouse S1001XX DSB ‘46. Whites Semidress in tan oiled latigo from W&C via Bakers.

Skate store hat, anatomica, buzz, buzz (dadoebidup) vans

Cottle/Sugar Cane/Full Count

thank you; good to be back! haven’t been posting as been lured by the call of the actually water proof and effecient warmth-to-weight ratio: charity shopped musto and folk wool-fleece as evidence… (gorpxyachtcore) back to spring back to denims: think have found a good partner to the tcb 40s jacket: tender 125 (‘achilles’ over-dye: natural indigo not woad methinks)

This hoodie is the closest thing I own to red for Valentine’s Day. Freewheelers hoodie. Freewheelers 601XX-C. John Lofgren Devil’s Causeway.

Rare non denim day. Inis Meain/Cottle/Tender/Samurai - and blundstones for the mud.

Filson waxed denim vest FW 1927 type 1 FW Skid row FW 1943 Nicks moc toe boots