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44’s - three months wear, fresh out of their second wash today

runabout brander. Freewheelers 601xx ruse black Nick’s packer boots

Nicks packer boots

Not today but last night. Thrifted jacket, carhartt wip ocbd, sc 1955z Worn with heschung bluchers, but I'm not wearing shoes in the flat.

McFly has been good to deal with. They are one of the few who consistently stock FW shirts in 17.5. I actually visited the physical store in Osaka a few years ago (2016) .

First one of these, forgive the absolute mess and dirty mirror, been a hectic time getting ready for the holidays! Sweatshirt - Freewheelers / Power Wear Jeans - Oni Curious on thoughts about the length of the sweatshirt (Ik vintage style should be shorter and like the vibe overall). I know the jeans I'm wearing don't have a super high rise, so that can affect things.

'Free' Stuff! I also have lots of stuff I'd like to get rid of in return for a charity donation of your choosing (+ shipping) to the Kern County Animal Shelter - its my closest shelter and unfortunately a vital resource as there's a lot of people in Kern County on or below the poverty line who are unable to afford to get dogs neutered which leads to a crippling stray problem in Bakersfield and the rest of unincorporated Kern County - where I live. Here's a link to some poorly lit photos of everything. All jeans hemmed to 29"-ish. If there's an item you're genuinely interested in, message me and I can take measurements. Unless dry-clean only (Jelado/Post O'Alls) or a jacket, everything will be laundered and lint rolled before being sent out. Rough description to match photos in chronological order with label size - if not listed, it’s gone: Monitaly Sample Jacket - 40 - Large - No buttons on sleeve cuffs Beams vest - Medium Monitaly Chore-ish Jacket - 40 - Large Pherrows Lot 500 - 34" Warehouse Duck Digger DD-1001XX 1946 - 36" Burgus Plus Lot 928 - 36" Stevenson Overall Co Lot 340 - 32"

My daughter managed to cajole me into loaning her a denim jacket for the holidays - this is unheard of! Me: SCSC '43 tux / Tezo / @Duke Mantee / Russell Mocs; MsMJF9: FW '22 / Adidas You have no idea how many pics it took to get our heads level 😁

Some more recon on the Denime Lot 224 '66. Bought size 36/30. Pre-wash: Waist - 19" || Thigh - 13" || Front Rise - 12.25" || Hem: 9" || Inseam: 32" Post soak and wash on machine "Warm" (supposedly 80-85 deg. F, machine does not have a more granular temp. setting) Waist - 18" || Thigh - 13" || Front Rise - 11.5" || Hem: 8.5" || Inseam: 31" After full air dry on clothes rack, wash with machine "Hot" (supposedly 101-115 deg. F, machine does not have a more granular temp. setting) Waist - 17.75" || Thigh - 13" || Front Rise - 11.25" || Hem: 8.5" || Inseam: 30.5" Before soak/wash: After hot wash: Overall, the shrinkage was a bit less than I would have guessed (maybe should have sized down?, but wanted to be safe). I feel like they fit decent in the butt, but are definitely baggier in the front. I definitely want to get the hemmed and hope that can help the look a bit.

^ https://www.bluey.tv/ I might not know if I weren’t a dad to a four year old. That said, the show transcends age!

They look and feel more like chambray. They definitely don’t look like the denim pocket bags that Simone shared for WoM. I’m guessing that the Rockets site just had a mistranslation. The HBT pocket bags were out of stock in my size but I’m not complaining either. The 37 model from Rockets also looks nice and uses the same denim. I think that there is something different about their sewing or construction based on how they’re marketed (part of their higher price) but I couldn’t figure it out so I couldn’t really justify the $80-90 price difference. The rise is noticeably higher on those though (12.8” for 32 waist after washing I think) and the thigh and leg opening are about a half inch wider

Very cool!

Klamp was one of the best experiences I’ve had in a while. Extremely fast response. Paid and item was shipped the same day.

^ I don't see a problem with the length, looks fine.

Good to see a bit of interest in SDA again, I like my SD-100 so much I’m considering a second pair to stash away for the future, something few other jeans have really ever had me thinking of doing. i should get a fit pic up, though noting that I tend to prefer my clothing probably a looser fit than most would consider as ‘fitting’ here. @smoothsailor has it right imo 😃

Much stiffer and more even than the no 2. The uneven yarn size is not obvious from handling the denim. It's one of the crunchier denims they've commissioned, in the hand it feels more like the Cats Drive Leepro stuff from last year than the original s40.

it’s too bad Hodis kind of disappeared. I’d argue that this is one of the most classic, timeless looking type 1 jackets.

New engineer boot and boots/shoes contender, out of Tokyo, just started selling this month called Archive Tokyo. Can’t tell if they’re sold out already, Mr. Olive sells the brand on their site as well. More of the brand: https://www.mr-olive.net/fs/mrolive/c/archivetokyo www.archivetokyo.com Edit:Sold out but watch out for the brand.

My mom moved this fall and sent me my old high school lettermen’s jacket. I finally got around to having it cleaned and snapped a pic just for fun. No clue how i ever thought that this was my size Cushman/Buzz/Red Wing

These arrived for me yesterday. They’re the s0001xx model from Rockets - WW2 with denim pocket bags. I like the look and feel so far and am hoping to wash and hang dry (need to minimize inseam shrinkage) before my in-laws come for Christmas. Here are the pre-wash measurements, some photos (not my greatest work), and some pre-wash fit pics. The darker blue colors are most accurate it’s really grey and snowy here and I didn’t have time to bring out my real camera setup. I will update fit and measurements once washed waist (laid flat and not aligned): 16.75”/42.5 cm front rise: 12.25”/31 cm thigh (at crotch seam): 13”/33 cm leg opening: 9.2”/23 cm inseam: 35”/89 cm

My 444 the leather still hard the break in

Union Special cap / Great Lakes shirt / Power Wear hoodie / old Lee Cane’s / Attractions kicks

Unseasonably warm weather in our part of California today. Buco, Hollows, FW prospector pants, vintage boots

Picked up an unworn, one wash pair of Full Count 0105s from Mercari for a song. The only catch: the owner unfortunately neglected to mention they’d been hemmed (very beautifully, it must be said) to 27”… Could my blunder be your gain? I’d love to get back the £100 I paid for them, if possible. Otherwise I’ll have to consider it uniform for the impending floods. waist is measuring at 32, inseam at 27.

Antique Cowboy Boots.

Amazing luck at the Antique Mall while Holiday shopping. 1988-1992 Made in El Paso Lucchese Bias Cut Alligator (and goat?) Cowboy boots. Found in a pile of old saddles and cowboy crap. Some deep creases but no cracks. Brand new soles. Cleaned up nicely with a coat of Venetian and Saphir.

Trying to have a clear out before moving. Anyone want these 10D Oro Shop Mocs? I think I wore them about five times. I just want rid of them. I think I paid $320 after tax a few months ago. They’re too narrow for my platypus feet. $120 shipped.

That’s worth knowing, cheers. re TakeOff mentioned earlier - also a good experience here, while not perhaps the most ‘chatty’, they deducted Jp tax and shipped promptly. Morley were mentioned recently too, they were a lot more friendly however to my recollection did not deduct local tax - so pays your money take your choice.

Spot on imo mate i’ve lost interest in Denime since Warehouse took over, but that fit looks just right.

Putting in a good word for McFly store (hope this is appropriate here, sorry if not). Bought from them earlier this year and just again the other day. Messaged the owner, Keiichi, around 1145pm EST both times. He responded within 30 min and we were able to go back and forth on a few questions right away that night, leading to payment and shipping label within an hour. He seems very nice as well!

Is he unreachable now? I know you guys had been in regular contact.

Thanks! I really like the Cats Drive denim and its hand feel. I’m still on the fence if that fit is for me though. The No. 2 pair might be my favorite from them though. I weirdly like how saggy the seat is on them

Yes, the Ichimaigawa up to only 27.5 and the Ashinari up to only 28 I am afraid. They do state that the fit is in the region of a half size larger but no good for you I am afraid. Anyway, sent an e-mail asking about shipping. The inevitable sizing dilemma begins next

FW Deck Worker Parka • FW Lot 506XX 1933 • TFH • WH 1942 • RW 9011

My first pair of 02XX - I think purchase in ‘19

Just saw this on the TCB early 37 C page. Apparently they are calling it (41 model with reverse yoke) late 37, produced in 40s. There also seems to be a mid 37 model.

surplus, duffer, carhartt, Fullcount, vans

FW 1927 type 1 FW 601xx rude black. Hip flare in full effect.

Laws Railroad Museum, Full Count, Warehouse, Warehouse, Vans.

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.

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

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.

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.

@PrettyBoyTony Front rise: Back rise: Waist (in case it’s useful): Bear in mind these are a size 32, rather than 33:

Hey @coleslawyum do you still have your ox blood Railman's? Here are mine albeit, not worn for nearly a decade

Talking about the Black Klondike leather. I just saw this pic of the 9870, which is the Irish Setter Round Toe in Klondike. The owner had the crepe wedge sole changed to a Beckman style. They have about ten years of wear. In the Beckmans of ten years or so ago there was also a black version, the 9014 in that Featherstone leather.