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Worked on my car the other day. Changed the heater matrix which was blocked ,causing the reservoir to boil coolant and spray it out via the cap/valve. Also caused the heating to stop working properly. Dealerships charges £1000+ for this work and remove the whole dashboard, but the internet was convinced you could just removed the glove box housing and do it yourself. So I did. For about £90. Complete fiddle! Really awkward. Got it done eventually and everything works. It was freezing though. Zero Degrees Celsius! And my knees hurt. I’m pretty sure I’ve stretched the knees on my WOMJ’s excessively. Test drive in the hills to check for leaks. Never again 😄 Also cut up a tree that came down in Storm Éowyn

My 714 is starting to fade. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos.

Finally back after traveling for the past two weeks. In my excitement to start wearing these I immediately threw them in the wash and completely forgot the raw checkin pic. Sorry!! I lost a bit of weight since ordering so I went for maximum shrinkage with the hot wash and dryer. They shrank up considerably but this also meant I lost most of my inseam as well. Might have to go uncuffed with these. Excited to start wearing them Measurements comparisons (biggest discrepancy is the front rise) Chart | Raw | Wash & Dry Waist 18.5 | 18.5 | 16.5 Front Rise ~13.58 | 12.75 | 11.5 Back Rise ~17.72 | 17.5 | 16 Upper Thigh ~14 | 14.25 | 13.25 Knee (14”) ~10.82 | 11 | 10 Inseam - | 32 | 28.5 Hem ~9.94 | 10 | 9 Crappy laundry room fit pic to start. Better pics with better lighting to come

BUZZ Rickson's cap vintage surplus sweat Buzz Rickson's pullover shirt WoMJ 411S John Lofgren

fit check. guess the drip. context: this was for a high society jaksel (south jakarta) wedding at our moma (tiny) where the dress code was strictly all black except for the bride who wore white. i was the witness for the bride. later on i went to a cocktail bar still in the same outfit.

I also picked up the Sunny Garden chore coat, the denim is very nice! I think they're going to make some late 1800's inspired pairs out of it this year.

Val Doonican, eh? That would explain your late mid-life style crisis that’s been playing out on here over the last few days! 😆

Back in the Rockets the last few days. Rugged Wear (80s I think?)/Brooks Brothers/Rockets/Alden

What size are you? I have a pair of tag size 36" DD-1946 that still have more than enough inseam length for you. They are 17" across the waist. They're one washed but I've never washed them - so for sure more shrinkage is viable They're already small for the label size. My mum is coming to visit me in April and can definitely take a pair of jeans back with her and post them to you? Just want them to go to someone who appreciates. Yours for the grand price of a tenner donated to Battersea.

On the way out tonight.. my neighbour was just coming home from yoga and said "you look smart".. i was wearing Brown's Beach Full Count over MF covert cloth mechanic shirt, SC47s and Lofgren pumps.. "i like the jacket (she said).. sort of halfway between a jacket and a cardigan.. it's a bit Val Doonicany" Wtf!.. We go to all this expense and effort to project Val Doonican

Made an omlette with some Gruyere ..made a flask of coffee ..set off through Whiteley Woods, it's very icey! ..looking over the city near the Peak District border, we live around here ..took a right at Ringinglow, looking at Stanage Edge ..rode the Burbage loop first ..stopped for a coffee ..featuring a new pack to replace my 30yr old Lowe Alpine fell running pack (i don't think i'll be doing anymore fell running anytime soon ) along with a water bottle which @CSL kindly proxied from the SimWorks sale The Velo Canteen comes with a different cap which incorperates a straw system for drinking? but i figured, if im civalised enough to drink decent coffee, im civalised enough to not do it through a straw so i brought along a Snow Peak double walled Ti cup. ..into the stanage loop ..hampers hang ..some boldering pr0n for @julian-wolf dude on the left is wearing rock shoes, bouldering pants, sheepskin trapper hat and 3/4 length sheepskin jacket.. ..warm and dry without down or gore ..up to Stanage Pole ..down to the reservoirs at Redmires ..around the reservoirs.. through Wyming Brook to Lodge Moor.. looking back ..through the Mayfield Valley where my legs turned to jelly so i ate a full box of blury Jaffa Cakes while i cleaned my bike ..the end

The infamous Chevy Chase

Double 0, Wasn't it you who said the beige colored Brown's Beach stuff was reminiscent of Terry Wogan? You may be experiencing some mild karma😉.

perhaps the most sensational denim contest ever , even for those who are not in the contest but just spectators 😍

^ 🤣 Yeah Neal, get in that rocking chair and start singing "tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree..."

Interesting the way this conversation has gone. In general, I don’t buy the concept of aging out of jeans. Aging out of particular ways to wear them or styles of fit, yes, yes. Yes, originally they were workwear, but we’re talking decades and decades since they leapt out of the factories and the mines and into the general population. I guess there are levels to this - and I suppose this is more specific to when and where I’ve grown up and lived - they’ve been the ultimate neutral and sort of signal flattener. They don’t really convey class or position on society one way or the other - but they do convey a basic sense of giving at least the tiniest of a shit in most cases - where sweats/tracks/pajamas are on much less stable territory here. They go at least as far in one direction as chinos or trousers do another direction. This might be a less popular opinion and really is just about my own sensibility but I find the attempts to formalize or “dress up” jeans to be misguided. A blazer with jeans - even dark jeans with tonal stitching - and dress shoes, for me, conveys a sense of a sort of conformist or an institutionalist who wants to be seen as a touch less serious in order to ingratiate themselves. If it’s a 5 pocket design, it should not be paired with a sport coat. I am painting with a broad brush here - but in the most basic sense, the gut reaction is to run the other direction - or to suggest putting on pants that don’t confuse the tone of the sport coat and probably the person wearing it. I think the only thing worse is sneakers with a sport coat and jeans, or those awful shoes that have dress style tops and fat rubber soles. As always, exceptions exist, and in the heritage world there are things like sack coats and chore coats that confuse this sort of assertion even more. I apologize if I’ve offended anyone’s general sensibility - take a free shot at me. Or, even better, wear it well and be in the world proving me wrong.

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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!

^ this is the vibe the world needs. Love it @jkbrwn

FYI https://www.blackandblue1871.com/outdoor-heritage-rugby-shirts/

Here’s a rare beast you don’t see very often from the Double 0 CD archives. Leeds By Example’ a 2006 compilation of Leeds hip-hop acts .. it’s so rare, it was never even pressed to vinyl. @MJF9

Thanks. I don't mind his wartime S501XX type repros but his buckleback models aren't as well researched imo. Also what love about Warehouse in particular is that you can unpick the arcs so they can look more like true repros.

If you or anyone else is in the market for a 1942 buckle back, Kato-san from Rockets told me that he can customize his models to cover the entire period from 1937-1942

After a cold wash and hang dry, chest is 24”. Not sure if I’m keeping this. Arms are on the narrow side. It’s the “salmon and navy” color way with the chin strap. If someone is interested send me a pm for more info. (I’ll send you the catalog too if you buy the flannel) More of the same. DSB 1936, 1941, 1942, 1947, 1953, 1954 & DD 1944, 1946, 1947

Just been out to Olive on Eccesall Rd South for some fat t-bones (Sarah had Casarecce Arabiata) Starters of calamari and mussels were awesome too! .. it's def worth a visit.

Great points, the subject of the formality of jeans, or lack thereof, is a fascinating topic. I think a crucial aspect of this is the color, detailing, and cut of a given pair. A dark, classic 501-type straight fit is extremely versatile and while I wouldn't say it really looks formal in any context, you can easily dress it up with a nice pair of shoes, a sport shirt, and jacket of some sort, so you look well put together on date night, at church, teaching the class, or whatever. A well-kept, naturally faded pair is almost as versatile. Where things get a bit iffy is with obviously with torn-up or distressed jeans, but also, I'd argue, with a lot of mid-blue prewashed jeans. The average prewashed pair tends to have this very flat and processed sort of appearance and shapeless, floppy drape that has more of a pajama or leisure wear kind of quality to it. Even if you just wear a pair of TCB 50s or Sugar Cane 1947 and wash them once a week it's still going to look and fit way better than floppy mall jeans after a year. Personally, I can't stand leisure wear not because I'm opposed to being comfortable, but because I hate polyester and floppy shapeless clothing. There's an interesting parallel between the rise of jeans and "work wear" as everyday casual clothing coinciding with a romanticizing of the rugged working man as an ideal in an increasingly urbanized and white-collar context post-World War II, and the rise of leisure wear as everyday casual clothing coinciding with "being in the gym/exercising/active" as an aspirational lifestyle when the norm is for middle and upper class people to be fat and sitting on their butts in front of a computer screen all day. Going around all day in Lululemon or whatever sends the message that you've Made It enough to enjoy the privilege of free time enough for exercising and sculpting your ideal physique. Most of this is happening on the subconscious level, but I think there's definitely something there. Other, related historical instance: when agrarian work was the norm, fair skin was the beauty ideal because it signaled you were above laboring in the sun all day, and when industrialism and the rise of white-collar work made indoor labor the norm, tanning because a status symbol because you had wealth and leisure time to relax on the beach and all that.

Flat Head shirt and jacket, Hollows belt, Stevenson trousers, Viberg boots.

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

sugarcane x begin

Speaking of 714, wearing mine today

@Double 0 Soul interesting gold dust there! Nice one Is there an artist list? OO challenge is how to turn into a shareable file...

Thanks, just as l thought. I already have this model though, albeit @beautiful_FrEaK's old Csf pair.

Yes! definitely me.. floral dance-esque

You wouldn't get me in a sport coat for love or money and I teach my classes in jeans and a T-shirt. One of the best things about the job.

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.)

That’s an extremely powerful pre-soak fit bartles …. though the post soak is excellent too. Really all of these fits are great, you’re all getting things off to a tough start for the judges…

@MJF9 bought it from the man himself back in 2014 in his store in Kyoto. nice guy, nice brand history, amazing denim never washed it, worn it for +10 years now. can’t bring my self to washing it, i cant stand seeing it loose it’s dark indigo hue so don’t think I ever will…

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

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

Band tee, H&M shirt, FC & Blundstones

Into storage with the start of #WOMCON: OA01XX at 2.5 years, 5 washes, around 1-1.5hrs of dog walking wear per day only

Obey, Lee, buzz rickson, fullcount, vans

Blluemade / Deluxeware / The Vanishing West x Motor Psyclone / MOTO

Freewheelers HELLBENT V8 SPECIAL. 601xx 1922

At Last & Co Butcher Products Carmina

Happy New Year! All vintage except Levis Tee Bronson Mfg 1936 Cowboy Lee 101B repro Lucchese Bias cut Alligator