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I wear what I wear because I like it. That's always been the case… from being a young lad with a very keen interest in clothes and how they fit and feel.... and there's no sign of that stopping. I couldn't give a shit who likes it or doesn't, nor where I get fit ideas from – they all come from somewhere. There's been some great (and less great) stuff on Sufu over the years and notably on the internet (looking at you Instagram) – I’m grateful for it all. But let’s face it, the jeans and jackets I (we) wear might have been made by FW, SC, Denime or (select one from many many brands) within the last 20 years or so, but they’re repros of jeans from c80 years ago i.e. not exactly new ideas anyone can claim rights to. It’s all borrowed, unless you were primo, which non of us are old enough to be! On Sufu, we’re a cast of 25 or so regular posters, up to maybe a crowd of maybe 50 on a very good week – brand or fit popularity in this micro-world is an irrelevant ‘so-what’ in everyday life. In northern Enger-land, in real life, I can recollect hardly anyone (maybe a few people) wearing the gear I wear. Mavis on checkout 9 hasn’t got a scoobies. If you're confident enough to carry off your clothes - and I apply this to anyone of any clothing genre and any age as I don't see barriers - then that shines through and good on yer. I certainly don't like all choices but I don't have to and, vice-versa, neither does anyone else... now that would be odd. Ahhhh so this is why it’s called the General Nonsense thread! Long live Sufu!

My Duke belt is shedding its black colour more and more Edit: dunno why I my pics are rotated...or my world is upside down. Who knows.

Wasn’t planning to WAYWT today but I liked this fit and was just standing around while my wife tried on some dresses. Viberg ball cap, Deluxeware thermal, McCoys A-2, Hollows belt, Flat Head 3003xx, Wesco 7500.

So far I’ve not grown bored of the heritage workwear thing. I do recall getting bored with the vintage rockabilly uniform back when I was into that - gabardine shirts, pleated pants, suits, and such, probably due to my gradual disillusionment with that scene. Funny thing was, once I’d emotionally disconnected from it, on my occasional sporadic interactions with that world, I found I was having a much better time than I ever used to, and now I don’t mind mixing in that style of dress sometimes. But then again, from the mid 1980’s on, cuffed selvedge denim jeans were most definitely a part of that look, and I could never imagine wearing anything denim that wasn’t that. I will say that I started to find the basic Levis 40’s/50’s pattern kinda boring, so when fancier, more whimsical looking, turn of the (last) century waist overalls type jeans became available, I was captivated. Now I’m happy wearing either one. I’ve occasionally thought to myself, should I get some kind of neutral, contemporary cut suit of clothes (appropriate for certain occasions…) but then when I look at people wearing that stuff it just looks like shit to me. Uncomfortable low waist pants, pockets pulling, generally unflattering silhouettes. Maybe it’s just the particular set of goggles I’m viewing through but there it is.

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

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!

I too had a period, let's call it 2016-2022, when denim was put on the back burner for more comfortable items like stretch waistband Uniqlo slacks and easy pants (styled with outdoor/tech wear), but also came full circle. Things got a bit too cosplay and stale for me if I'm being honest. Now I'd say I sort of just mix everything, with a focus on comfort, but have to admit that paying attention to trends and mixing in some of those "fashionable" items has kept things more fun, if not admittedly more capitalist lol. For example, I don't think I've ever loved a belt as much as my OUR LEGACY 2CM belt. I still mix in the odd Arcteryx jacket etc. for practicality (spend a good amount of time outdoors), but maybe layered with some army surplus, reverse weave sweatshirts, and some Alden's to clean it all up. But yeah, I'm definitely happier with my outfits now and have basically settled on this "look".

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

^nodding my head in agreement *head nodding emoji*

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

FWIW, I have both freedom sleeve and set in sleeve models of this in size L and the sleeves fit about the same on each in my opinion. I roll the cuffed part up on each. Overall, it seems the body of the freedom sleeve ones fits a bit shorter and the neck hole is a bit wider.

Is that tea core @Duke Mantee? 😉

New, unworn, unoped, umhemmed, unwashed OOE SOA03XX - Size 38 x 36 For my friends in; Germany - EUR 260 including Shipping from Constance, also no custom duties Rest of EU - EUR 260 plus Shipping from Constance, also no custom duties US of A - USD 290 plus Shipping from switzerland

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…)

This is my experience also (l have both models in size XL) - but l do wish they had made the set in sleeve model neck width a tad bigger, similar to the size of the freedom sleeve.

Earth tones 🤬

When i lived out in sticksville.. one of the guys who went in the local boozer.. we'll call him Ken, cos that was his name.. he had shoulder length scraggly grey hair, bald on top.. he wore a metal tee.. often Saxon or Iron Maiden.. snug fitting, washed out typ3 over the top and a pair of washed out snug fitting Levis with a bit of a podge hanging over the top.. dude obviously reached his peak in 1979 and never managed to move on.. this was 2008. That's what we are.. the next generation of Ken's ..as i say, i'm not looking to change my style, i can appreciate trends vicariously through my offspring, i love my collection of jeans and i have enough clothing to last me another two lifetimes but for as long as i can remember.. i've always been absolutely obsessed by clothing and footwear.. even when i was a junior school kid aged 8 or 9 i would catch the bus into town just to look at the sneakers i couldn't afford.. whereas now i feel bored shitless by clothing and the only reason is.. i've been into the same shit for the last 20yrs.. bit of a paradox i suppose..

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

What would one consider a trackie in 2025?.. i haven't seen a Daley Thompson or Goldie Lookin Chain-esque trackie for years.. it's mainly sweatpants / drawstring pants.. yuppie types have been dressing them up for the office for some time.. worn with lofas, sports jacket.. knitwear and such, they can cost a small fortune, (£1000+) but if you saw a crackhead wearing them you would assume £20 from Sports Direct.. Tell us more of these fit ideas.. isn't it just denimz.. sweats, tees, jackets and pumps like the rest of us? You don't know that for sure.. she could be normcoreing like a mofo.. "i had one of them 2009 era denimheads at my checkout today".. she'll be saying on the middle-isle WhatsApp group.. When i go to the Tesco near work, i'm so threadbare that security clock me instantly and assume i'm either homeless or a shoplifter.. little do they know, i'm cultivating a sufu accredited WH jacket Viva La Nonsense!

It's funny to hear talk of putting on "real pants" to work (and not manual labour), where the real pants are jeans. Until the last thirty or forty years people would have been saying the same thing about putting on a suit. For that matter, there are still plenty of blogs around now where men will tell you that jeans are inappropriate for anything other than leisure, or even that men over thirty (or forty, or whatever arbitrary number they pick) should only wear chinos and "slacks" (does that term sound just as comical to other Brits?). I find them really entertaining actually. I find it interesting the way that trends have shifted over the last twenty years so that jeans have shifted a place up the formality scale, and leisure wear (in the UK, read "tracksuits") has come in to fill the place they vacated. The people who sneered at young people or perceived commoners for wearing jeans forty years ago are now sneering at young people or perceived commoners for wearing trackies. (None of this is a comment on anyone here, just some thoughts inspired by the discussion.)

In reference to the covid era in particular - that’s when I came to Sufu (I was a lurker for a time before that). It was 2020 maybe? Late joiner in that sense. But anyways, I couldn’t not wear jeans during Covid just because you couldn’t go anywhere. As a freelancer, when not out in the field and working from a home studio quite often - I’ve always equated putting on real pants with going to work, silly as that is. I still put them on when I get out of bed to write at 5:30 am. This has been the case for me forever. I could never get real work done in “soft” clothes like sweatpants - save that for physical training. In 2020, it seemed like this was maybe the last place left in the world where people dared to put on real pants, so I finally had to join.

No, the charts for these sleeves are all weird IMO. I am still having to do a half roll on the sleeves.. I don't have super short arms, but do always find that I have to do a half roll with most Japanese sweater. For reference I’m only 5’9” and wide though, so if you’re tall, yeah, this prob won’t work.

I have two XL Cushman freedom sleeve sweats in red and navy blue that I’m considering moving. Borderline new condition. Just prefer the way other sweaters fit me. Amazing sweatshirts, just not quite the fit I want. Would like $100 per. Can send photos if anyone is interested. It’s the red and navy to the right of it in this image.

Bonus rep for bringing a new WAYWT pose!

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.

Globe Specs Thrifted Overcoat Jackman Cardigan Whitesville Tee Fullcount Moonstar

tcb catboy sugarcane tcb 50s

And the rest:

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

1003XX buckle back. Putting these away for a while in anticipation of some new, comfier Full Count's. A few washes. Worn since mid September. But not often till October cause it was too freakin hot in SoCal.

Yes, yes and yes

Would anyone know what Warehouse's widest/straightest cut is? Recently picked up some 1001XX-25 from Signet looking for a true straight and am quite disappointed in the cut 😕 It's very roomy in the top block and tapers quite aggressively... The banner denim is lovely in person though

@Superstar remembered I'd seen it before and found your post here... looks great

@okimoto I like big cuffs (on the 147s) and I cannot lie... bravo @Superstar and bravo on the Sassafras jacket... funky brand... looks like some good wear there

Talking of 'demonito's closet' ^ Can we get @edmond back?

What can I say, I live to serve!

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'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.

2 very fine pieces for 1.st drop

I had a four year denim hiatus during COVID and was wearing primarily pretty oversized everything and basically only bought Engineered Garments/Needles stuff. Started wearing jeans/'heritage' Japanese stuff again in September and honestly feel great about it. It was like coming home. I bought my first pair of proper jeans - Edwin Greensville's from Interstate in Covent Garden - in 2009 when I was 16 and dressed that way until the start of COVID. It just feels right to me. The boxier fit of Japanese clothing fits me better than anything else I've ever worn. The other stuff started to feel too trendy and my current wardrobe feels a bit more classic and timeless. Maybe a bit dad. And I'm okay with that.

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..

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.

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)

100 times better than my 0 in the same amount of time.

An update:

Finally gave these a piping hot wash and machine dry, the puckering/roping is crazy and the leather seems to have held up well enough. I did rub a little Obenauf's on it which I haven't done to patches in almost 20 years. Plus, I got two belt loops with selvedge which was a nice little surprise.

They fit perfect as-is, but I don’t think I’ll mind them slimmed down some, either Anyway, doing something I haven’t in a few years and just giving them a hot hot bath to start things off!

I'm not anymore as anal as I used to be with these sort of things. Day one here. I'ts a beautiful windy day and I work from home so the jeans are already dry from a lukewarm soak and this is how they fit. The waist stretched back easily, the rest of it shrunk to perfection. I'm only tempted to toss them in the machine for peace of mind later on and to take another couple cms off the inseam length. I'm delighted with the jeans, love the fit! great denim, light but crunchy, I feel it'll fade great. I can totally see me being loyal to these jeans for the most of the next 18 months, easily.

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