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So I did a load of steps yesterday... which really helped loosen them up. I ironed my jeans inside out when nearly dry to take out the crinkles... no hairy-ness as yet. This roping is going to be very tasty!

Late 40s jacket arrived in today. Super crispy still and in need of breaking in but very happy with the shorter fit compared to my 20s and all the ww2 detailing! The denim has a bit of a redder hue and is simple but hairy. Wrestled with getting the cinch back to buckle properly a bit but looking forward to wearing this practically daily going forward.

LVC sweatshirt, At Last Co. 147’s (size 30), Converse The 147’s did not shrink anywhere near as much as I had expected so I’m holding off hemming until the next wash or two. Not a fan of cuffs but I pressed them this time and think it doesn’t look half bad

A few details after a very cold 15min soak. Patch and Pizza details Unfinished Fly and the top button stitching Yellow and black waistband and belt loop stitching Off set left side belt loop Single needle cinch

tcb catboy sugarcane tcb 50s

Outtake of the 47s a couple of days ago.

Forgive the sincere response, it's really all that I'm capable of. But I guess I see it a little differently - I was never too interested in the idea of cutting edge, in fact for years I enjoyed skateboarding in whatever hand me down gap and american eagle clothes that came my family's way, and only over time by hanging out in skateshops did I sort of go that way. Even at those shops I just wanted to find stuff that I felt "myself" in, whatever that means - stuff I was drawn towards tended to be more subtle I guess. In this way, I'm not dressing too differently than I was 20 years ago, which for some is sad and for me is something I'm content with, but it also just happens to work with the other facets of my life (most of the time, I can put on a suit if I need to). I just have mostly better versions of the same stuff - and that's why I like some of repro makers, because that's where you get the best versions of the basic stuff. I know the sort of consideration that went into it, and can appreciate it for that, but it's not much of a signal of anything other than ordinariness to most others. I have learned about and come to appreciate some of the more out there stuff, but it still is stuff that I feel "myself" in. Scare quotes because I don't put too much stock in that whole notion - I guess I don't really identify much with how I dress - or rather, it's something I find is fun to take an interest in and learn about, but I don't think it goes much beyond that for me. My deeper values or interests have tended to lie elsewhere. I think the closest it gets to having to do with values is that again - the jeans and sweatshirt, denim jacket etc is something that tends to disappear in public. It's ubiquitous - sort of a non-thing. Keen people can see it's maybe a nice version of a non-thing, and that's always fun, but in general - at least where I've lived, the way I've dressed has more or less been a non-statement - or for anyone who knows me, I've been in versions of the same thing forever. It's not really much noticed. Even back in my younger skating days I usually had the more anodyne versions of whatever was out there. I've never felt a huge need for a lifestyle to match up with clothing though. For context, I ran a marathon in surf shorts because that's all I had, and I couldn't be bothered to buy proper running shorts - finding them ridiculous looking and a waste of money. None of this means that I don't care at all what people think, it's just that if I find something I like and am comfortable in - it's pretty much case closed. The only thing I'm really not so chuffed on is that I still feel I've got a few too many things and not enough wear in some of them, so I've slowly been trying to whittle it down to the things I like the most and identify what's best for my daily uses. But um @exaptavist I do recall @Double 0 Soul posting a pic in his well worn Freewheeler 47's some time ago with recognition that they were indeed something solid. I'll admit, out of the repro brands, I do find FW the best, simply because they go the longest most reliably without having to repair busted ass threads or darn the crotch (good patterning!), both things I'm annoyed to do and have done with every other pair! I do agree that group think can kill flair, but like, we all came here because we really liked the most basic, ubiquitous garment on the planet.

How are y'all feeling about the way you currently dress?... back when i was 20, i'd consider myself cutting edge.. i dressed like a cutting edge 20yr old, none of my clothing was easy to obtain or bought without careful consideration (i certainly wasn't shopping at Top Man) by the time i was 30, i dressed like a cutting edge 30yr old.. ie- 1940s Japanese repro sweatshirt, 1940s Japanese repro denim and old timey, handmade 40s era repro boots.. again, nothing one could buy on the highstreet. Coming here 15yrs ago, we were as cool as fuck but i've been stuck in this fucking loop of a rut for what feels like forever... we've all got old and the cool sufu style of days gone by is now just considered dad-wear The answer used to be 'just buy more stuff' which i did, but i was always bought stuff in our same 'repro' style which by now was already becoming pretty washed.. my journey through fashions was always organic and linked to my lifestyle.. when i was a young teenager, i would buy jeans from Bankrupt clothing, the brand was often irrelevant, as long as they fitted and looked dope, followed by (amongst others) >X for fashion / going out rave club wear, >skateboard / BMX jeans, Girl, Droors, Silas ect.. >vintage Levi's.. >LVC and finally JP repros all within a 15yr time span.. then my journey through fashion just stopped. JP repros are everything i ever want in a pair of jeans, they look great and fit my criteria perfectly.. i'm not looking for anything else but my god am i fucking bored! ! ! I looked at waywt probably 3 times last year and zero times this.. some handsome dude in a well worn pair of repros, a nicely fitted sweatshirt and a scuffed up pair of boots would make me go all gooey inside.. now it just makes me sigh.. We can never move on from this.. the brands are feeling it too with their imagined 1940, 41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59 and so on, repros.. they've milked the style for everything it's worth.. i can count on one hand how many threads i currently read and 3 of them have nothing to do with clothing.. so is this it now for me.., i'll still be wearing this same old 'stuck in 2009' shit when i'm 60? You might say just go buy some Techwear, Gucci or Maison Margiela for a change.., but i'm not that shallow that i would just buy into a brand that i have no affiliation with, it has to be part of my lifestyle.. i'm not the Gucci type, i'm just a bored sufuer..

Globe Specs Thrifted Overcoat Jackman Cardigan Whitesville Tee Fullcount Moonstar

I had a couple of Fuct tees in the early to mid 90s.. the Goodfellas one (not sure what happened to that) and the Subway one with the guy holding a gun and the cowering dude with the big fro.. i wore the latter to such an extent (being a sweaty skateboarder) the underarms were akin to the texture of a wax jacket.. when it came out of the wash, they were so stiff and cardboardy they hurt my pits! He's^^ done well to maintain a living off the brand without selling out (if that was his objection).. but who's wearing Fuct these days? .. it's easy enough to create a cutting edge label for teens and 20somethings when you're a cool af 20 something yourself.. your customer base likes the things you like.. not so easy dressing 20 somethings when you're 50+.. i'd look even more tragic wearing a 90s era Fuct tee than i currently do wearing 'superdenim approved middle-aged dad uniform' Supreme was cool af in the mid-90s before it blew up, it was underground, high quality, MiA.. apart from Slam, i only knew one store who stocked it so if you wanted a box logo hoodie in the 90s you would have to get the train or drive to a different city.. whereas nowadays, anyone with enough cash can have anything they like. The trajectory (or lack of) regarding some brands is crazy, It wasn't that long ago that North Face who would share retail space with Rab, Lowe Alpine and Mountain Equipment.. making the transition from outdoor gear (with forays into mountaineering kit) into streetwear collabs .. but what followed was a swift decline into what can only be described as a standard part of school uniform for the normcore kids.. those parents of yore who would have bought their kid a school jacket from C&A are now buying their kids a North Face jacket!? $$$s aside.. I bet he's glad Fuct didn't become affiliated with Hypebeast culture.. i often wonder what happened to all the hype-kids..? if they were 20 at it's peak in 2005-8, they will be pushing 40 now with kids and families of their own.. i'm sure they're not sat around the breakfast table in faux-fur leopard print supreme cap and purple camo bapehead hoodie.. have they just migrated onto mature hype brands like Rick Owens, Balenciaga and Palm Angels or have they reverted back to the highstreet..? You forget how lame mainstream fashions was in the 90s.. if you look at audience members in old episodes of Jerry Springer or Oprah the clothing and hairstyles were beyond conservative.. or over here, Bullseye is a perfect example of what the normies were wearing back them.. what the polyester fuck! As ubiquitous as the hoodie has been for the last 30yrs.. before the mid-90s, here in the UK.. folks didn't often wear hooded sweatshirts, the older generation still don't.. (i haven't owned one for 15 years) yet under 50, the hoodie can probably be found in 90% of peoples wardrobes.. anywho that's my incoherent musings for today.. I'd better get some work done!

Owner Redcloud overall MFG Co. has launched a new RueBlue line. You can find it on the international website. The price tag, of course, is quite serious. But my friend worked in China and agreed to bring me jeans. Like in the good old Soviet times. )) But he has an ambush with a length along the inner seam. Everything is around 30-31." I found only one pair of jeans with a length of 81.5 cm in the measuring tables. https://www.redcloudoverall.com/products/rc-240b-rueblue-tapered-denim-jeans-black Yes, there were W33-34s in the search. We bought it through TaoBao and they cost me 80 dollars cheaper. I don't understand why they were called skinnies. They are very similar in measurements to DENIME 66, in W32. And the back rise is a couple of centimeters longer. The length is at the limit, but I liked the pants so much. It is better to look at photos of the parts on the site, I will not do it better. As for landing, please. I apologize for the white tiles, but this is not a morgue, at least. ))

pizza landings raw and cooked montage as shortened xposting from starter thread… mobile fabric from large to little and sure they will find largeness again…

sassafras type 1 gardener jacket mont st. michel work shirt nudie ace denim jeans new balance 991

Updated fit on mine with likely final inseam length! Honestly I’ve never had jeans fit this well in the top block before. I know this is going to sound like “denim nerd draws parallels between one generic 501 iteration and another generic 501 iteration” but these are feeling to me like a Warehouse 1001XX with a better top block for me. Lovely stuff.

Stetson vintage surplus sweater FC Buzz Rickson's John Lofgren

Freewheelers WWII jacket. Freewheelers raw 1947s

Pulled out some banner denim for the first time in a while. Denime/Cushman/WH Duck digger/Franks I really like the lap fades on these. I just wish that they were 1-2” longer in the inseam. The Rockets are shaping up to have some nice whiskering at least and I will be more careful drying them (not having a newborn will help)

Works with sneakers as well. And finally I had a haircut...

TCB / FW / @Duke Mantee / Word of Mouth Jeans 5150 / Viberg

Bonus rep for bringing a new WAYWT pose!

I'm happier with my style than ever, I hope I'm still dressing like this for the rest of my life, and at the expense of repeating my previous post on this thread I get the most enjoyment from wearing my favorite clothes over a longer period of time. I really don't care about the trends, and the whole perpetual preoccupation with youth and refusal to accept getting older/embrace maturing strikes me as an anomalous trait of modernity and the advertising-driven youth culture fixation that's had a stranglehold on western culture since the 1950s or 60s. I find myself much more inspired by my grandparents' generation, who managed to age with dignity, than Boomers. It is probably this, and the sense that I have a system of values and priorities deeply out of sync with current times, that makes me drawn toward styles inspired by the 1930s or 40s, rather than because I'm trying to appropriate the romanticized allure of the factory man, cowboy, or some other archetype. In short, the way I dress is a reflection at least to some extent of what I believe and value. For instance, I feel no attraction to streetwear or techwear not just for aesthetic or tactile considerations but because they seem to be a sartorial embodiment of a sort of urbanized worldview and sense of priorities at odds with my own. Another, weirder possibility is that dressing a certain way is actually the cause of my changing worldview. This is admittedly a bit silly, but it might play some small role. Okay, I have ranted enough for one day, I will see myself out now.

Cutting edge boomers, that’s what we are. being cutting edge in your 20s30s maybe 40s is kind of a natural thing. If you’re cutting edge that is. cutting edge in your 50s might be a bit to much cosplay. You just needed to be cutting edge to land where your at now, just roll with it

I stuck this up on Instagram, so I may as well repeat it here:

It's been mentioned before but Freewheelers is really pretty good with sizing consistency. It doesn't mean you can't wear 2 different sizes from them, but it does mean that if you're a 32 in one of their jeans and have a pretty proper, traditionally aligned fit, then a 32 in any of their jeans is probably what's going to correspond to the intent of the original pattern. If the waist itself is a little different, that's probably on account of the rise being a little bit different. This is my own opinion that I've also mentioned before but I think if one has to size up for a suitable top block that's indicative it's quite possibly just not a great cut for someone. A too loose waist that tapers down isn't a great look most of the time. Not that it doesn't work sometimes for some people, but something else - a fuller cut - will probably work better.

Flat Head western chambray / JCrew fair isle sweater / Warehouse x Rocky Mountain vest / Flat Head 3003xx / Wesco 7500… inside of a caboose.

post covid perhaps being used to only wearing shorts at home i start wearing only shorts out as well, and whatever tops ive already got, mostly tender shirts, local metal/hiphop crew tees, sometimes i would wear my keith lo bue caps (got a new one should update in the chapeaux thread), mf veste ouvrier when out in freezing malls, and my trippen booties (wearing these with shorts are what they were made for), still adhering to my adage of wearing expensive drip and looking like a bum *no viz

I remember when I was in my mid teen's I had a pair of Jaguar brand trainers. No idea about their story, I doubt that there even is one, and I am not going to bother to look. And I didn't need to know back then, either. And I scribbled over them with a marker, "Go Go Jaguar Nuclear". Happy days, in my Jaguar Nuclears, who cares what brand baggy jeans and some scruffy oversized top. Pockets full of lint and maybe crumbs of hash. Years later, working, not earning much, had a budget of £30, any item of clothing, didn't matter what, but max out £30. Internet sales, TK Maxx, again, who cares what brand as long as it wasn't something gaudy, and didn't fall to pieces when I picked it up. No indigo uniforms, navy was boring. Colours at random, jumbled coherence, best fun I ever had dressing, Then. Superfuture. Threw all my jumble sale outfits away, it wasn't approved, it wasn't made in Japan, it obviously wasn't quality! Except, it was just fine, and adhering to some forum approved perspective of what was deigned acceptable completely killed the fun of clothes shopping. And I still mourn some of those cheap pieces of clothing I dumped at the recycling bin. And I definitely think group think kills flair. Be original in your cheap clothes, look after them and be yourself. There, much better. ... That said, I am currently debating the relative merits of buying an 800 Eur pair of Dimissianos and Miller boots. So I am quite the hypocrite. But, I'll be the only man on the forum with a pair of Dimissianos and Miller boots, so there's that. And anyway, it means I'll have no money for anything else, which will mean it suits the vision of buying something so expensive it hurts and therefore has a meaning of its own right.

It’s just how this place rolls @exaptavist .. we’ve had a FWs thread for years and nobody ever contributed, Duke came along with a bit of enthusiasm and everyone bandwagond it.. we’ve had periods when the SC thread was busy.. same with WH.. Field of Dreams theory

@Double 0 Soul It's all shite mate, and obsessing over clothing, obsessing over anything really, ruins the nature of it anyway. Whatever happened to just sticking on a pair of Pepe and actually going out to have a bit of healthy illicit fun. Selvedge denim, goodyear welted shoes, it's all banal now to the point of cringe. Least you're not wearing Freewheelers, I'd have to really insult you if you were. We need a different forum mate, where clothes are incidental to actually doing shit ( ...and nobody mentions bloody Freewheelers )

New unworn, umhemmed OOE SOA03XX - Size 38 x 36 Germany - EUR 250 plus Shipping from Constance Rest of EU - EUR 250 plus Shipping from Constance US of A - USD 270 plus Shipping from switzerland

About 4 years ago during Covid, I put up some random FUCT camo camp hat for sale on eBay. It sold for $180. There’s still people buying the brand but it’s mostly the youth.

Love the tag @mlwdp. As someone who's been into the denim hobby for about fifteen years now, I relish the experience of wearing clothes that I've had for a long time more than anything else. When I put on something I've had for five or ten years, or even longer, I think about all the various experiences I've had wearing it, and how satisfying it is to keep wearing the same stuff for a long time, fix it, and keep it going. I find that more satisfying and enduring than the immediate thrill of buying New Thing. When something doesn't work out for one reason or another, being able to pass it on to somebody else in the denim community who will hopefully connect with it that way is also gratifying. Likewise, many of my favorite pieces of clothing I own, I bought used or otherwise secondhand. This all might constitute a little act of rebellion against the global consumerism machine that demands we buy an excess of crummy expendable junk For The Greater Good.

the pizza has landed… & pre-soak fit (big bois) plus raw deet-lets… and a nice damp str8 out the machine fit check (washed 1hr at 40c, spun not machine dried) and post wash mini-deets… (so long patch it was nice knowing you… and hello dearest crinkles, hairiness n roping…)

After driving 350 miles from Brighton (that’s a long drive in the UK) up to the Lake District to visit my Dad yesterday, here's the view from his window of Bowscale. Just near the more famous Blencathra. It’s bloody cold too. Looked like this on 11th January though. Much prettier.

Nonnative nonnative phigvel 301 wesco

vintage surplus cap vintage surplus sweater OrSlow OG 107 WoM John Lofgren

Tender Co. jacket & shades Deluxeware Hollows Word of Mouth 411S Russell Zephyr

Chore coats have always been my most practical choice. TCB/ motor / Jim green

Start me up KC

Guitar strap Tuscan milled leather, lambskin, steel hardware, turquoise gems

An update:

Ortega's, J Crew, freshly washed and tumble dried 0105SSW to tighten the top block a bit and reduce some leg length, WFH cheap slips.

Flat Head houndstooth flannel, Real McCoys A-2 jacket, Hollows Rail belt, Flat Head 3003xx jeans, Viberg Service Boots.

Very very frigid today so I'm bunded up inside. It's 0°f/ -17c outside right now and Hell has actually frozen over in the United States. To those of you living in other parts of the world, please keep a close eye on us. Things are about to get downright sketchy. Multiple friends working in or for multiple three letter agencies have privately cautioned to keep our eyes and ears open. Stay safe Sufu. Wool watch cap Fuzzy Unif Cardigan The Cure Lovesong reprint Vintage Gap braided leather belt H&M Loose denim Vtg Tony Lama cowboy boots with riding heels

Usually I need to be in pressed suits, & such on stage but occasionally I can get away with workwear. FW, Ooe (double knee chambray), CHUP, Paraboot.

Deluxeware thermal tee, Flat Head jacquard sweater, Flat Head 3003xx, Wesco Mister Lou

Colimbo Bear Country Lumberjack Pants (Paraffin duck)

Freewheelers x 3 / Hollows / Lofgren