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special delivery of 601rb and surprise sweater gift from @LazyS while he was in Japan.

Lee archives 1962 I purchased at the Lee store in Osaka

That must be because @Duke Mantee did such a terrific job on the pattern haha it looks better than LVCs

Dug these out of the closet recently, the type 3 black denim. Great pair of black jeans

SOA03XX with custom arcs from @Duke Mantee template! Thank you to @Broark for helping me track down a pair

My old LVC 1947 555 501's from the 90's worn and repaired multiple times. They were my first pair of LVC denim so trying to keep them repaired and in service.

I joined the club. Couldn't resist...

Keeping it simple while lazing about the yard. FW sweatshirt, OA01, vans

In it's essence, it's something we all should support, there have been numerous instances where impressionable children have logged onto fb looking for support with their mental illness and the algorithms have bombarded them with images of self harm and directions to suicide sites which ends with the inevitable.. Zuk ain't going to do shit if it bites into his profits so the government has had to step in.. but being the government, the regulations are poorly thought out and ill conceived.. Tis why you're seeing that c**t Musk's online tirades directed at our PM because his profits margin will slip if people are not given the freedom to convince teenagers to take their own lives. ..and why he's financially supporting that other c**t Farage to spread his hate and division.. Yes @AlientoyWorkmachine 'regulatory capture'.. regulations are introduced which are disproportionate for small players so big players who can meet the costs of protecting themselves control future traffic. Hopefully LFGSS are overreacting and a simple disclaimer "This Site Does Not Tolerate ****, ****, and **** will suffice but it's not looking good at the mo..

Some inspiration for Christmas presents: levis 501 xx 1937 (looking at the reverse yoke could this be 1941?) levis 507xx 50s 40s vintage chino pants This one is sold unfortunately.

Sheesshhhh, that looks grim. I know a lot of communities have run to other services like Discord and whatnot, but from a philosophical standpoint I just hate the idea of having a community function at the whims of a large tech effort that can change anything at any point for any reason. Being part of an individual effort has its perils (see Denimbro), but that is the stuff where the internet is/was good. Once everything’s centralized under corporate efforts, as it mostly is already, it’s just gone to total shit IMO. This is really the last social internet venue I frequent for some of these reasons, it would suck to see it hampered by some misbegotten bill. Always felt like the enshittification of it all was brought about by tech but it seems that government could be the final nail. Cool cool cool. Nice teamwork between church and state.

@LazySFinally, I’m not alone here when it comes to wearing white pants in this thread. Are you going to keep them clean or dirty them up? How about washing them?

Yes, The OA and Lees were the only raw jeans. These Lee’s are from a thrift, a UK Brooklyn comfort repro and a 90s pair. The bag in the back you can see the top of is the Ultima Thule Tourist bag that I got at Hooisers along with some other Freewheelers pieces . Got a longsleeve tee at SDA and a Denime tee at Warehouse too.

I picked up one of the sweats at the weekend. Dark grey marl, size Medium. Really happy with it. Mid weight. Prob similar to the duck digger/warehouse sweatshirts. Good cut and shape. Boxy and short with a nice deep waistband and cuffs. I'm told that shrinkage is minimal and will report back once I've washed it. Already a firm favourite.

TCB / Buaisou / @Duke Mantee / Freewheelers '37 / Adidas

Washed the WWII jeans last weekend, probably going to stash them away for a bit ahead of the WoM contest. I've really enjoyed wearing this pair so far, might be my all time favorite cut from OA.

@mlwdp going to try and keep them clean as long as I can but planning on painting in them eventually. I saw a lot of people wearing them at the Yokohama Custom Hot Rod show, the dirty pairs looked great too. I will probably be hot washing them depending on how much they stretch

Have been a daily member on there since my teens and am now in my thirties, so this news certainly stung. I hope Velocio finds a way to figure it out... Found my first house mate through there when I was 18, got a job at Rapha through the forum, made most of my for-life friends through it. Sucks.

Good service for me. I live in the middle of nowhere and DHL charged him extra on top of the standard DHL shipping cost as I'm out of a standard service area - I think 5000 yen on top of the standard shipping charge, and he felt bad and only asked me to pay half of it - which he really didn't need to do. $236 for two Cushman sweats when Clutch charge $205 for one? Not as fast or easy as Bears but worth it for the stuff Takeoff have.

Antique Cowboy Boots.

The options are the same as they have always been: accepting that most people, the vast, vast, majority, share the exact same base desires as we do — to love and be loved, to live a fulfilling life, to be appreciated for their contributions and achievements, and to accept and learn from their mistakes. These same people, without exception, are going to have painful experiences from their upbringings, to be hurt when trying to be vulnerable, and to learn to react with fear, withdrawal, anger or violence, and in doing so they’ll also cause pain to other people. The choice becomes available when we realize and accept that about others — and just as importantly, about ourselves — and choose to meet people’s pain, struggle and difference with understanding and compassion. The choice to “go NC” (no contact) with somebody is valid when someone, in very rare cases, proves themselves pathologically incapable of meeting you halfway in your process of healing. But in the vast majority of relationships today, people can and deserve much more understanding and commitment than they get, even from close friends, partners and family members. To not offer them that opportunity is a failure to fully respect the complexity of the human condition, in my opinion. And it’s a root cause of the epidemics of loneliness and division I know we are all experiencing at this moment in history.

I’ve been thinking often recently that the highest form of “education” a society can have is shown in its capacity to accept, and live with, differences and contradictions both within and outside of itself. To that end, I see many rich, college-educated liberals in Seattle being stuck in the same backwards state of mine as the proverbial backwater Southerner: distrustful of outsiders, intolerant of difference, to the point it’s become a trend to even cut family members out of your lives who voted differently than you. It’s a problem both sides of the political & socioeconomic spectrum are really struggling with. I finished reading a wonderful book a couple weeks back, The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. There’s a passage in it where he discusses arranged marriages, often seen as antiquated, backward, even barbaric in the West (and surely there are elements of this when there are huge age discrepancies, etc — that’s beside the point for the moment). But in fact, he argues, a high percentage of those in this arrangement report themselves as quite happy. Why? Because, contrary to the modern social narrative that you’re meant to “fall in” love, which itself presupposes chance more than effort, he says people enter into arranged marriages understanding that they are building a loving relationship together, basically from scratch. That from being more or less strangers, perhaps with nothing in common beyond some shared cultural understanding, they work to find their common humanity, their capacity for care and empathy, and develop a lifetime commitment to one another, which forms the basis for their, not instant, but gradually developing, love. In contrast, the West’s “modern” love ideas are far more transactional. Do you and your spouse feel the same burning, passionate connection after 5 years that you felt as new lovers? Perhaps not, and so one or both partners may just abandon the relationship to search for another, in hopes that this time, that initial feeling of love won’t fade away (it almost always does). That this dynamic has now stretched to include family and community members, and become codified in the act of “cancelling”, “ghosting” or otherwise abandoning people who don’t easily and comfortably conform to your ideas of acceptable, pleasing behavior, is to me one of the most concerning and notable elements of the decline of contemporary society in the West. It’s interesting to consider that behavior such as inviting a stranger in for tea or offering a ride to someone broken down on the side of the road are now seen as risky, perhaps intolerably dangerous, though our grandparents may have thought nothing of either one. In fact, where I am living in rural Mexico, these are still normal, even socially expected, behaviors today. Why we have gone down the path of separateness I think has many factors, economic pressure and social media being some of them, but those are factors all over the world, and some places still stubbornly continue to embrace one another’s differences and embrace contradictions rather than turn away from them. So I don’t think those factors alone tell the whole story. Anyway, sorry for the long ramble, but this conversation about cultural difference & isolation has felt increasingly relevant this past decade and I am always wondering where it comes from and what can be done about it.

Simple fit today. Watch cap Thrifted Sweatshirt Mister Freedom Outlaw Cone deadstock Vintage Lucchese Bias Alligator

I wore my pair a little bit more this year They're great jeans

47s Color is real nice

1927 Freewheelers type 1 1937 Freewheelers jeans

probability my last purchase Lee S91 j

I don’t wear these 1947 jeans as much anymore but they’re looking great. I’ve the last round of repairs on the fabric and stitching fixes, i leave them as only occasional wear so they don’t get too messed up.

Same here, a bit slow to respond to emails (sometimes more than a day; really not that slow in reality, but perhaps compared to some other places), but overall shipping/handling was fast.

They look great. What are they?

@Double 0 Soul Yamane Industries is the brand of Hidehiko Yamane's son. He took over Evisu (probably not very sucessful), then it was sold to a Chinese (?) company and after that he founded Yamane Industries. So it's a different brand. Yamane-san himself has the brand "Yamane Art". Bot these new brands are quite similar to old Evisu. Wasn't Yamane just a spin-off from Hidehiko Yamane?

We have a thread Only semi-active person i can remember with Yamane is @tg76 but it's not very often i tune in here so there will probably be more

John Gluckow Companion The rest - vintage

LVC 44 about two months wear, the back of the hems are folding under the heel counter of my work boots creating a line of wear I’ll have to keep my eye on

If you put this place behind closed doors it would be the final nail in the coffin..

I think Heddels is dying. It's never been the best of reads/sources of info but I did like their 5 plus 1 articles Of which I haven't seen one in months

Simone finished quite a lot already

Another view is the simple affirmations from the peeps who want their jeans shipped with no delays is a good thing eh 😉 That said, to break it up... here's a pic of someone's jeans

Happy with the shrinkage. They are very stiff at the moment so look a bit weird but I believe they soften up quickly from what I've read here. I washed at 40 low spin but think I should get some more shrinkage in leg next wash. Waist is perfect. These feel like cardboard right now compared to my fullcounts

220AXX have just arrived from Bears. The preshrink photos are looking promising. Currently in the wash so will post an update once dry which at this current temperature will be in a couple of weeks 🙃

In August 2021, I put a pair of Roy Peanut Pants on ice as they fit too relaxed for my liking. Some of you might remember I debated between selling them or even sending them off to experts like Indigo Proof for significant alterations. At the time, virtually all of you said to move them along or keep but leave them as is. Even Rain advised that recreating some details in the same exact manner that Roy did, might not be possible. Turns out that all of you are right. I went away for 3 years and put on 5 kilograms with food and drink, and now they fit me a little better. Still, they're long in the rise and can slip down during the day and look dumpy in the crotch and butt, but I'm much, much happier with this fit, and have a refreshed appreciation for Roy's work. It is a shame to not have a piece from Roy, but it is an even greater shame to have owned, but never actually tried, something from Roy. With that I'm gonna dump a bunch of photos here. Nothing unexpected for most folk, but I hope it does show why this hobby continues to fascinate us. Front and back photos demonstrate the rather full "relax-tapered" cut, show a glimpse of the internal cloth Peanuts®️ patch, the rounded back pockets and a vintage-looking Big Bro cloth patch with green lettering. That coin pocket is shaped exactly like the back pockets, and it is very deep and wide for an accessory pocket. The back pocket rivets are exposed but done in a manner that it does not scratch furniture. This is a 31" inseam, and combined with the very high rise (these should sit at the navel for me, and even a little above, if I were being honest about being a Super Short King) means I need quite a big double cuff to keep them like high-waters, which is how I prefer my looser jeans to sit. Right away, you might notice the fabric does have a myriad of shades and quite interesting texture. These are very sparingly worn and they are already crinkling in many parts, especially near the front pocket openings and the waistband. The roping at the hems is impeccable. Roy uses all silver buttons for this release. Despite the long rise and rather long fly placard, it only has a total of 4 buttons. I wish it had 5, but who am I to question Roy about his work? A closeup of the narrow, raised and tucked belt loops along with the kind of rivets Roy chose for this release. Check out that tightly sewn bartack for the belt loop, done in a different shade of indigo. Another closeup showing the rivets and one of the exposed corners of the coin pocket. Notice the all-white stitching used for this release. I've seen photos of some pairs of Peanut pants with a different comic strip, but here's the one that came with mine. I'm a little sad thinking the patch will probably wear off to white (or just simply tear eventually) at the top where it sits on the waistband. The shell stitching detail that loads of people love about Roy jeans. Those rivet backs look like brass. Another well-loved detail, Roy's embroidered name and size tag on the back of the front pocket bag. From what I've read, these pocket bags are cut and sewn from an unsanforized canvas material. I'm just a simpleton, so I'll tell you that these heavy duty pocket bags are extremely reassuring to have in daily use. I am positive they will put up with a lot of abuse and still feel comfortable against the thigh. There's two kinds of Rivet backs here. The ones on the fly are one, and the rest are another kind. Now this. I get very excited when I talk about this...excited as a child in a candy store. I tried hard to show it here but it isn't clear. That back pocket patch has a plumpness to it that makes it obviously sit proud to the back pocket. It appears to be sewn in a manner that would become plump as the unsanforized denim around it shrinks with washing.Yet the stitching does not cause the denim to crinkle or appear untidy. Both the back pockets and the coin pocket are entirely lined with the same off-white unsanforized canvas fabric that's used for the front pocket bags. The canvas fabric was chosen, and sewn in a manner that it shrinks with the outer denim, perhaps shrinking at almost the same rate, so that neither the denim nor the canvas forms ripples. I put my hand in those pockets and the inner canvas lies unbelievably flat against the denim. The details really do matter. Selvedge line and Roy's own pink thread being used in his very own black seed denim co-developed with the famed Cone factory. That same thread that's used for the belt loop bartacks shows itself again here. A closeup of the fabric. This is at the outseam of one leg, Don't quote me on this, but I wouldn't be surprised if the selvedge line weave and texture was done in such a manner that it would produce more pronounced train tracks with use. Again you can see this is a really sparingly used pair and we are already getting some bulging of the outside of fabric in the area. The warp threads feel quite plump and that contributes to the texture. There really isn't any pronounced slub or nep, but a constrained level of hairiness is present. Another close up of the fabric, the chainstitch at the hem and the roping. Couple of fit pics, which I put up because they're surely mandatory if I were to claim that they fit better. Notice the leg twist in equal amounts in both legs. On my frame, they are still very relaxed in the thigh with some hip flare. They generally look more flattering when worn higher at the navel but they don't always stay at that level unless I pull them up occasionally during the day. Pardon the unfashionable T-shirt hike up in the back photo, I did that just to give an idea of how those back pockets sit and what the back pocket patch actually looks like on the body. Anyway, that's enough indulgence I'll allow myself for one day, and more than enough to bore most of you. But for sure, Roy jeans are good.

@fabes great minds think alike, I was doing the same with @reallypeacedoff’s measurements and then trying to compare them with my OA WW2 pair. This was slapped together at the end of the work day so I haven’t checked my work.

I put this together based on bFs measurements. Shrink % from after wash measurements compared to raw.

Update Good news... Simone confirmed that Collect have shipped both rolls. The target plan remains for Simone to have the jeans to us before Christmas for the competition to start. Note though that’s a target as Simone’s doing this single-handed so we’ll need to be understanding. Anyhow, this plan beats my expectations for sure given we only very recently started talking about this so solid progress has been made. Simone has started on the belt loops already! Request please by the deadline of 14th September Can all contestants finalise the following by DMing it to both @beautiful_FrEaK and me please? Model Waist size Confirm if they want hemming done by Simone If yes, please state your desired inside leg. Simone will add 8.3cm to your desired leg length to allow for shrinkage. Any issues with the date, please let me know. To help you finalise your model selection… Key points Every SuFu contest jeans will be made with the same denim which is sourced from Collect/Japan Blue. 12oz Loom state selvedge denim made by Shinya on Enshu shuttle loom. Denim is 82,5 cm (32,5 Inches) wide Cotton origin: American Yarn count 7/1 x 7/1 Density 62x46 Please be aware may jeans are hand-made, hand-folded, sewn on vintage industrial sewing machines. Flawless, imperfections are considered parts of the beauty and character of my jeans. Discrepancies with chart may occur. Same specs for all jeans: 100% Japanese cotton sewing threads Hand folded seam allowances, no use of iron Sufu custom-designed cow leather patch Sizes available: 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44 311 Slim/Reg silhouette mid to high rise 60's rivets No hidden rivets (can be ordered with hidden rivets) Word of Mouth buttons Orange sewing threads Thin belt loops Clean crotch and flys construction Natural cotton twill pocket bags 411 Regular straight silhouette (see pic) High rise Punch through rivets Hidden rivets Word of Mouth buttons Orange threads (available also with 2 tone threads) Wide belt loops Clean crotch and flys construction Natural cotton twill pocket bags 411WWII Same 411 specs except for: Japanese HBT pocket bags Yellow threads Raw crotch and flys construction (see pic) Unfinished pocket facings (see pic) S-wire donut buttons, S-wire laurel leaf belt button No bartacks on back pockets Wonky stitches 611 ('37 inspired model) Regular straight silhouette (wider than 411) High rise Punch through rivets Hidden rivets Crotch rivets Chinch back Reversed yoke construction (see pic) Two tone threads color Wide belt loop Raw Flys and crotch construction Natural cotton twill pocket bags 411S ('42ish inspired model) 611 silhouette Punch through Rivets Hidden rivets Standart yoke construction Crotch Rivet Bartack on back pocket No chinch back Wide beltloop 10 Oz Denim pocket bag (Amoskeag Repro Fabric) Donut and WMJ mix buttons 5150 High rise Regular straight silhouette Punch through rivets Hidden rivets Orange stitches Word of Mouth buttons Orange threads (available also with 2 tone threads) Wide belt loops Clean crotch and flys construction Natural cotton twill pocket bags