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early days: but currently consider these to actually be pretty perfect as a pair… nice work Simone! subtle but extremely wearable: goes with a range of styles doesn’t scream but has nice balance (in terms of pattern and fabric weight): suits both casual and more public situations… am enjoying (imagine it will be good across seasons too…)

Took a snap yesterday...

Getting some signs, w Tender and RW. Probably well behind a few of you at this point but it’s been something like a real winter thus far.

Did you jump onboard or not../ how fking sufu actually are you? Size down craze.. No Slept in jeans.. Yes Diors.. No Fancy wallet.. Yes, No!No!Yes! origami wallet (still use it to this day) Engineer boots.. No Ocean wash.. No Resolute washing / fit having previously not.. No Never washing.. No (live in the tropics) Coffee wash.. No Slubby or streaky.. None Heavy oz denimz.. 17oz heaviest ever (Tender denim) Joined a contest.. No Joined a tour.. Yes (@Bobbo's Warehouse tour on sufu, @Duke Mantee's Bootleggers and Leroy Strauss tours on Denimbro) APC.. No Fancy washing detergent.. No Worn denim while raw.. Yes Paid for an expensive repair.. No Wallet jewelry.. No Numerous pairs of very expensive boots.. Not boots but shoes Numerous pairs of identical jeans.. No Numerous fancy leather belts.. Just one, Tender belt, love it still Native American Japanese jewelry.. Hell no Jacket suitable for the Arctic.. No (live in the tropics) Unreadable Japanese language magazines.. Yes yes Dressed like a sailor.. No Dressed like a miner.. No Dressed like an urban lumberjack.. No Mill repro.. Yes Dressed like a railway worker.. No Stacked.. Yes (Dry Bones, loved it, inseam was a crazy totally impractical 39 inch!) Starch..No Freezer.. No Fancy socks.. Yes Handmade English shoes.. Yes Cheaney FTW Whites Semi Dress.. No Discharge print.. Yes Own less than 10% of the clothing you bought since joining.. Yes Photo of jeans in bathtub.. No Wore jeans wet.. No way £2000 leather jacket.. No Numerous repro denim jackets all from same era.. No Colored weft denim: No Has at least a decade's worth of denim in the closet, unworn? No. Have basically stopped buying sufu or even sufu-adjacent clothing. Want some Tender shirts but no moolah Bought jeans nobody else owned.. No but have a Rising Sun prototype jacket only 6 of which were ever made (apparently). got me recognized by other sufu members in london not once but twice Barf / Man stain / Shit oneself in jeans.. Not really into scat Denim meet up - Yes with @bartlebyyphonics we spent half a day walking around savile row, soho, and environs checking out galleries and some shops (clutch) discussing everything from at last co's weirdly weak top button to hito steyerl. it was a lovely day. thanks bartles! EDIT to add Used a proxy/Google-translated email to buy something from a Japanese shop…Yes many love letters to 2nd Posted photos of myself wearing denim-related clothing to a bunch of strangers on a public forum… I have GAD and depression not NPD Please contribute..

You pulled that out of the bag Ooms.. ! 3/4s of the way down.. it was like you'd nvr heard of the place. Clothing aside.. i turned away from consumerism years ago @Cold Summer the only reason i still buy expensive things is because i don't want to buy them again .. i've only ever owned 3 laptops.. my DSLR is 20+yrs old.. I've only recently got a secondhand iphone having not owned a phone for years and not because i wanted one.. just became life became so difficult / bordering on the impossible without one. But i do have a collectors mentality which left unchecked, gets a bit out of control.. before my kid was born.. his soon to be bedroom was my clothing / sneaker storage room.. i had two metal shop rails on wheels full of jackets, you could barely open the door without knocking over boxes of sneakers pilled up to the ceiling.. i was buying stuff and just shoving it in the room.. out of sight.. out of mind. When my kid was born in 2009.. i realised how little any of it meant to me and just took the collection back to current wearers / what would fit in the wardrobe. It didn't stop.. it just slowed down momentarily while i adjusted to parenthood, then i started buying jeans again.. i thought i'd buy a pair of engineer boots.. but because i don't want to "buy cheap buy twice" i bought an insanely expensive pair.. and because of the previously mentioned 'collectors mentality' within 12mths i'd spent £6000 on a small collection of hand made boots.. this was on top of my lace up boots.. every pair was black (same with the lace ups) they all looked the same I was the first person outside Japan to buy Clinch from Brass..(you can probably blame me for the CSF thing too) did i wear any of these boots.. no not really, my life centered around my kid, all my leisure time was spent knee deep in mud wearing wellies.. out in the woods fishing, collecting tadpoles, bike riding, camping or hiking in the Peaks.. i rarely got the opportunity to wear £1600 boots (so why did you buy so many?... good question) i decided to wear the cheapest pair of fancy engineers in the workshop (that is their intended purpose after all) but they were fucked in a few short months so i sold them on. I spent years and 100s of hours painstakingly collecting every colour of ultra-rare 1990s era Buckweat sneakers.. never wore any of them and sold them on to MJF9 for a song When we moved house 7ish years ago i had another rethink / sell off.. it's these life affirming moments like kids being born, house purchases which makes me reassess.. i haven't bought any sufu-related clothing since 2017.. the last item being a Stan Ray SunSurf shirt from PSA. The social commentators will tell you.. "buying clothing always leaves you wanting more, feeling unfulfilled and empty inside".. i've got to admit, it was all a massive waste of money but i did thoroughly enjoy it.. researching, tracking down and buying rare items of clothing was exciting and with that gone, there is less joy in my life.. but do i feel happier and more contented inside?.. absolutely not.. i feel exactly the same.

T-shirt, belt and 147 jeans

T'other day Stussy Brain Dead tee Warehouse 1101 Wild Bunch

Just saw these in a small town in San Luis Potosí. They’re actually amazing, really nice looking denim, but obviously the brand name is the star of the show. Size 32 .. Anyone interested? Lol

I enjoy these discussions @Double 0 Soul @Cold Summer As for me, to be honest I’m actually uncomfortable with how much stuff I’ve bought over the last few years - much of it fantastic Sufu stuff. Some not, but just as nice. I keep telling myself I’ve stocked up and can just enjoy it all for the next decade plus. (Not uncommon!) I’ve liked clothes for as long as I can remember long time but was always totally hamstrung by finances - including growing up. Originally got into raw denim loving the idea of a really long lasting pair that you made your own, and my first pair was just that - I bought some Raleighs - a very stiff and unique chevron blue/black denim that were about ~$300 magically at a local Nordstrom Rack discount store in Raleigh, NC for $50 and wore them for a few years in rotation with a few cheap 511’s I already had and wanted nothing more. When that pair started to end its life and I decided to see what else was out there that might be a better pattern was when trouble started. After denim I’d say my primary interest was in indigo itself and natural dyes over, say, nice t shirts or workwear or Americana or mod subculture (happily writing in a Muji t shirt). I was at a pretty slow pace until the pandemic hit when I had more time to learn and my work of going out into the world and photographing was very limited. It was a covid rabbit hole of sorts. Then about a year or two after that my son had some life altering health shit happen at a very young age and while it clarified that nothing else much mattered, it also had the weird effect of me giving myself permission to just go nuts for awhile, especially after he returned to good health (which still seems miraculous to me - and is by no means future guaranteed). My son’s health episode traumatized everyone close to him, and we have a good amount of family nearby. So it didn’t help that my wife essentially became a bit (but only a bit) supportive of this weird retail therapy. I’ve always had a bit of a collector bug but it’s always been tempered by time, and my preference to just be outside doing shit - which is harder both during the pandemic and also in some phases of parenting. It’s never been as bad as some people I know, and I always told myself I was limiting it to photobooks - which is still my best, but still not great collection. But really I did start to collect some clothes along the way - specifically jackets followed by jeans. I’ve hardly sold anything I’ve picked up (aside from some fullcount pieces) and I really do enjoy what I’ve got, but partially joined the contest just to encourage slowing down. I really love the stuff that I’ve got and just try to wear it the best I can. Not sure I’ll ever go totally no buy. Being more realistic, at best I really want to get back to my old pace which was usually only a pair and a jacket a year or so. The one sort of exception is that I really do like getting stuff from the really small brands and makers - especially like Tender or Ooe, or now WMJ or Duke too. It feels not so different than buying the books my friends write or photograph (except even better, really because they see more of the money), or buying their art. I want these people to continue to be able to survive from their unique talents, but it’s also objectively some of the best versions of the stuff that I’ve seen. Even Seichiiro at Hoosier is a great salesman and I’ve enjoyed transacting with him - we’ve talked about all sorts of non denim things on one occasion I put in an order to him and he returned and bought one of my small edition photography books, which my friend then saw in his shop while visiting Kyoto. Stuff like that is super fun, and has little to do with denim but wouldn’t have happened without it. I’m sure in 15-20 years or so, if my son doesn’t find my collection interesting (he probably won’t), I will move on from some of the items, and if I have my druthers, it really won’t be much more than I’ve got now and hopefully most of it has some more character at that point. Probably a nice story at most haha.

Late to reply but killing time waiting for Eurostar Size down craze.. Yes but not to APC levels Slept in jeans.. Yes, in IH. Never again Diors.. No Fancy wallet.. Yes Engineer boots.. No not my style Ocean wash.. No Resolute washing / fit having previously not.. No, always end up washing around the same point. As soon as I think they need a wash! Never washing.wash see above Coffee wash.. No Slubby or streaky Slubby, but they always fade weird excluding PBJ denim Heavy oz denimz.. Yes 24oz R&H collab, 15oz is the sweet spot for me Joined a contest.. No Joined a tour.. No but @smoothsailor saw me in Tokyo and never said hi! APC.. No Fancy washing detergent.. No Worn denim while raw.. No Paid for an expensive repair.. No but had some tapered via shipping to railcar in California Wallet jewelry.. Yes, well a wallet rope. Very impractical Numerous pairs of very expensive boots.. No Numerous pairs of identical jeans.. Yes Numerous fancy leather belts.. Not fancy but Handmade Native American Japanese jewelry.. No Jacket suitable for the Arctic.. No Unreadable Japanese language magazines.. No Dressed like a sailor.. No Dressed like a miner.. No Dressed like an urban lumberjack.. Ish.... Mill repro.. Yes Dressed like a railway worker.. No Stacked.. No Starch..No Freezer.. No Fancy socks.. Yes Handmade English shoes.. Yes Whites Semi Dress.. No Discharge print.. No Own less than 10% of the clothing you bought since joining.. Yes Photo of jeans in bathtub.. No Wore jeans wet..No £2000 leather jacket.. No Numerous repro denim jackets all from same era.. No Bought jeans nobody else owned.. no Barf / Man stain / Shit oneself in jeans ... maybe.....

Size down craze.. No Slept in jeans.. Yes, out of necessity or drunkenness but not for the fadezzz Diors.. No Fancy wallet.. fancy-ish. A Googies wallet with coin pouch but very plain, no adornments, or chain connector, etc Engineer boots.. No Ocean wash.. No Resolute washing / fit having previously not.. No, the thought of this makes me cringe Never washing.. Never! Coffee wash.. No. Why?! Slubby or streaky.. is this for a Tinder profile? Had 2 pairs of Edwin ED69s years ago, which were a bit streaky Heavy oz denimz.. No but Ande Whall once sent me a decent size scrap of 21oz denim for my handling pleasure Joined a contest.. No Joined a tour.. only a Saga coach tour! APC.. No, but I’ve bought Mrs F 2 pairs Fancy washing detergent.. I’ve received a couple of packets of SC detergent with orders from Naoki at PSA but never used them. I use Ecover non-bio Worn denim while raw.. Yes, some Nudie Regular Ralf’s many moons ago. Fast forward crotch blowout! Paid for an expensive repair.. I’ve paid for a number of repairs but none were expensive Wallet jewellery... Of course not Numerous pairs of very expensive boots.. Yes, English boots from Northampton shoemakers but not anywhere near the cost of Japanese engineer boots Numerous pairs of identical jeans.. Naturally Numerous fancy leather belts.. Nothing particularly fancy, a few Italian made plain Edwin belts Native American Japanese jewelry.. No Jacket suitable for the Arctic.. Yes, Spiewak N3B Unreadable Japanese language magazines.. Oh yes! Dressed like a sailor.. Mainly when working as JPG’s stunt double. Also have a peacoat so probably more often than I thought! Dressed like a miner.. No, but I dig it Dressed like an urban lumberjack.. Guilty. Eek! Mil repro.. Yes, primarily jackets/coats but more military-inspired than strict military repro Prison steez… No Dressed like a railway worker.. Every day when I go to work as a ticket inspector on the London Underground 🤣 Stacked.. That’s what she said! Starch.. I’ve added added it to the wash once or twice in the past but didn’t like the smell and not post-noughties Freezer.. No Fancy socks.. Fancy-ish but not Japanese prices. I’m talking Burlington, Paul Smith £££ Handmade English shoes.. Yes, far too many Whites Semi Dress.. Nope Discharge print.. Yes Own less than 10% of the clothing you bought since joining.. I don’t really know what this means. Photo of jeans in bathtub.. No Wore jeans wet.. Briefly, if I thought they needed to be stretched out £2000 leather jacket.. No, no leather jacket. I’m not Arthur Fonzerelli Numerous repro denim jackets all from same era.. Yes, two Type 1s Colored weft denim: No Has at least a decade's worth of denim in the closet, unworn? Probably closer to a century’s worth… Bought jeans nobody else owned.. Naturally Barf / Man stain / Shit oneself in jeans.. As a father and pet-owner, yes but never my own fluids Denim meet up - I’ve met Dr Heech, Mr Black and bumped into Paul T. Worn triple denim…No Used a proxy/Google-translated email to buy something from a Japanese shop…Yes Posted photos of myself wearing denim-related clothing to a bunch of strangers on a public forum… Not a chance!

not one single vintage SugarCane jeans?!

and to qualify this: i am no expert in ooe / warehouse but to me (who most rotates around lvc / tender / tcb): they have the nice weight of lvc, but the more generous cut of tender (but with a better rise…), with the nice ‘hand’ and accurate wonky stitching of tcb (but again the pattern sits in a balanced sweet spot the tcb s40s and the 20s didnt quite achieve as splendid as they are): it all might just be size up euphoria…

@Double 0 SoulThanks for sharing, I really enjoy hearing your takes on the hobby as somebody who's been through the whole collector thing and beyond. I'm much the same way with things like electronics, for all the flak Apple (often justifiably) gets, I've gotten a ton of longevity out of their stuff. I've been using the same Macbook for ten years now and it still works just fine, and in that same time I used an iPhone 6S from 2015-2021, and an SE from 2021-present. It's tricky working around planned obsolescence in so many things. One thing discouraging me from going toward more collector impulses is that I can very easily get decision fatigue, when I have too many choices of what to wear I start to get anxious and have trouble deciding what to wear, and at that point it stops being fun, so that keeps me in check. I usually wear just one pair of jeans for a long stretch, and mix in a pair of chinos, salt and pepper trousers, and maybe a faded pair 1-2 days a week. I have four pairs of boots, a few pairs of sneakers, a few jackets and sweaters, and a bunch of shirts and tees (relative to the rest of my wardrobe), which is where most of the variety occurs. I find this gives me enough variety to keep from getting bored, while keeping it easy to make good outfits without having to think too hard about it. I tend to make new purchases based on probably-too-elaborate internal mental calculation about filling a perceived gap in my wardrobe, or attempting to upgrade some aspect or other (for instance, recently I think, maybe I should try to get a black lace-up boot to replace the function of my black 70s Chucks I've worn heavily for the last ~7 years, like a Viberg Service boot, Lofgren M-43, or Combat boot.) A lot of the time this involves waiting until just the right moment or circumstances to buy some expensive thing, with my Flat Head leather jacket being probably the standout example of this. Some folks go through dozens of black leather jackets trying to find the right one, and I waited until something with just the right measurements and my desired specs appeared, and managed to get it at a good price, and I've been quite satisfied having taken this approach. Another example, I'd buy a pair of SCSC 1943 jeans if Self Edge or Franklin & Poe puts them on discount or sale, to wear Someday, but not right now at retail price. I get probably more enjoyment out of the clothing hobby than I really should as a married guy with kids and all that, but I guess I find that it helps to have something I can enjoy when I'm in the midst of hysterical toddler behavior or doing chores or some other tedious aspect of everyday life. I have a lovely Rickenbacker bass that's surely the nicest thing I own right now, but given the present circumstances I hardly ever get to play it. I'm always wearing a good pair of jeans and a cozy shirt though, so the clothes are easier to justify to some extent because the demands of family life don't stop me from using/enjoying it. If I were you, I'd take one of my awesome banged-up pairs of jeans and try my hand at home repairs to make them wearable for weekends and casual wear. Getting them professionally repaired would surely be prohibitively expensive, but doing it yourself might be fun, and should be cheap, and I'm sure the results would earn you massive rep on here almost no matter how awkwardly it turned out at first. 😅

Shush! You.. you’re ruining my narrative

That's exactly the reasoning the cigar-chomping robber barons want you to use! 😆 The way I look at it, it's practically impossible to be a conscientious/sustainable/etc. consumer across every category of stuff that you buy for a variety of reasons, but it seems reasonable to pick a couple things where you think you can (or want) to support better labor conditions/environmental practices/whatever it may be, and focus on that. After I got married and could no longer indiscriminately throw cash at constant expensive clothing purchases, I got a lot more interested in trying to maximize my bang-for-the-buck factor: buying items that were high quality and would last a long time, but were also affordable. I found the trick to be getting secondhand purchases from Japanese sites like Mercari and Yahoo Auctions, where in particular I upgraded my shirt situation over the last few years by finding mostly Flat Head shirts in 9/10 condition for cheap on these sites. A variety of factors contributed, like a weak yen and Flat Head being at a pretty low ebb in the Amekaji consciousness compared to brands like Warehouse or Freewheelers, to push the value down so far, but it sure worked out well for me. I'm also big on brands like Denime, TCB, and Sugar Cane which offer very high value for the price. With shirts, it was first-hand experience that "converted" me, back in fall 2011 I went to a local select shop where I lived in Japan and handled that red Flat Head Native Check western shirt and it was evident to me that every single aspect of the thing was miles ahead of any casual shirt I'd ever seen or touched. That being said, I'm pretty discriminating when it comes to shirts and there are a lot of shirts by high-end Japanese brands that don't have fabrics or other aspects which are really any different from what you'd find at a department store. I got an IH flannel back in fall of 2019 and had it for several years. I never liked it very much. Although warm, the fabric reminded me more of a dense kind of blanket than a conventional flannel, and although it had nice colors the weave itself was uninteresting. The Iron Heart fit didn't work well for my body type, but that obviously varies from one person to the next. Where Iron Heart really lost points for me was in the construction, the stitching was bright orange polyester that never softened up or broke in. Though the shirt's construction and quality exuded technical precision, I felt it was completely soulless. In comparison, my Flat Head flannels have much more of a handmade quality, between the selvedge fabrics with tons of texture and personality, and the all-cotton stitching done on vintage machines which has a much more pleasing tactile feel and comfortable break in over time. I bought most of them secondhand for a fraction of Iron Heart prices, making them a vastly better value for me. Several of my Flat Head shirts I've worn since 2011 and they're still going strong, and others I bought secondhand were from the mid-late 2000s yet with little sign of wearing out. I don't think IH shirts are objectively bad at all, and the factors which mean a great deal to me, are things that are probably irrelevant to most other people, but it is hard for me to justify the price for what it is. If new Iron Heart shirts cost $200-250 or less and there was less hype surrounding them, I think the whole situation would be a bit less of an eyebrow-raiser for me. I just wish more people knew there were other options for nice shirts out there which are a lot less than Iron Heart.

LVC 1944

Hunted for this one for years. 1984 Roy Rogers L.A. Games Tee as worn by Val Kilmer in Real Genius. One of my grails. A few cheap and inaccurate reproduction have been made but I wanted an original and few years back I finally found one. Im not saying it's screen used but I bought it from a seller outside of L.A. so you never know! Just perfect.

233 jacket and 224 jeans. The denim seems very, very similar from a weight/texture standpoint. No information online confirms that they are the same; some seem to contradict it. Size 38 shrunk nicely to the exact fit I was looking for—50 cm in the chest, 43 cm in the shoulders, and about 64 cm in length.

It has crossed my mind whether the fact the jeans have been made by a Western maker, means they therefore fit a Western frame that bit more cleanly than our beloved Japan made jeans. I know Simone had guidance from a Japanese mill or jeans maker (?) but still, there must naturally be a Western influence in the cuts of course!

I'm curious when Neat Style Official's in-house jeans will be sued because of copyright infringements by. They are vey "similar" to Eat Dust https://www.cultizm.com/de/denim/jeans/41940/eat-dust-fit-73-loose-tapered-selvedge-denim-indigo-blue-13oz

Usually, Denime uses a selvedge weave in this pattern: ↖↗↗↖, like in the Lot 220A. I noticed that in the ‘Vintage Banner’ denim lots—220XX-54 and 220XX-47—the weave used was like this: ↗↗↗↗, similar to the 1950s 501XX. Does anyone know if this is the first time Denime has used this ↗↗↗↗ weave?

@bartlebyyphonicsi also got the 611, but did not really size up, and would concur with what you’re saying. They're quite a wearable pair in any situation. Tender is a different beast that I love for different reasons but I do probably prefer this top block, and I also like these more than TCB, which I have the 20s and then 30s of in black - I just feel like they wear on my frame better right out the gate, difference is again subtle but substantial.

Absolutely agree with this, great way to put it

I've been manipulated dammit! I had the same opinion on shirts - I was quite happy buying vintage Big Mac, Five Brother, and the like for $15-20 on eBay - but the more I scrolled the WAYWT thread this winter, the more the idea of a new, thick, Japanese made flannel tantalized me. I'd always denounced Iron Heart as comically expensive, though I had to admit their UHF made me curious. After finding one new with tags on eBay for "just" $175, I pulled the trigger. When it came in I was genuinely stunned at how beautiful it was, I immediately started checking stockists for sales and bought another the next day 😅 But, they are helping me make it through this particularly frigid winter with a bit less bulk under my jacket, so maybe the manipulation was a good thing.

The Leepro 101B I own from the Orizzonti era has also just one direction. It's LHT though. But then, hopefully without sounding like a disappointed fanboy: current Denime has next to nothing in common with old Denime. So better compare it with Warehouse if you want to have a reference.

Some Edward Green boots

2 layers of rough out latigo - grain to grain; solid brass hardware; saddle stitched with linen thread … massively overbuilt 🤷‍♂️

New York Hat Co // Brown Beach // Butcher Product Henley // RRL // Viberg x Iron Heart

Flat Head houndstooth flannel, jacket, and 3003xx jeans, Hollows belt, Wesco Mister Lou boots.

Same as you folk - I exercise 5-6 times a week, have done forever and will continue until something bad stops me. It's my panacea. Now you mention lockdown @ATWM, while it had so many bad and sad effects, the daily family exercise regime at ours was great. Family workouts - hill sprints in the park, Muay Thai circuit training in the garden, weight training with some old kit I've had since my mid-teens when I started strength training to help football and athletics, we even used an old cinder 400m track and trained there - with even a timed 4x100m family relay to finish (and try beat the time at the next session). Memorable in many ways.

Cone Mills Pointer (LC King) Dearborn Denim Long Ryders I like seein' all the WOM pairs settling in

@Cold Summer makes a point which I can really relate too. Sometimes the amount of clothes I have makes deciding what to wear painful and detracts from the enjoyment of them. Add to this I got into a habit of almost outfit procrastination.. I wont wear item X now because I want to wait till I wear item Y with it and so never got round to actually wearing half of it. On top of that "babying" certain items , like not wearing certain shirts to go out and eat in case I get food / sauce spillage (never actually happened anyway!) All this made me slow down buying more clothes but now as I get older and body shape changes (weight training/distance running instead of martial arts & middle aged spread...) I'm starting to replace some stuff while attempting not to get back into the unchecked shopping of the last 20 years or so.

great fit @bartlebyyphonics....... silhouette of yours 611 is very close to my 411S and agree with you. they are very well wearable....

Lovely fades Ben, I’ve found that my best fades come over a long stretch of time. Speaking of which… I’ll take more pics soon, but here’s a peek at my Flat Head 7002W shirt, ten years after I bought it.

My lad was playing football on the east cost near Filey, about 1.5 hours away from home, so we made a trip to the beach there. A 6-1 cup win and a goal for Junior MJF9 made for a good morning Filey is a really dilapidated old English seaside town... but, regardless, we do like to be beside the seaside We were Hank Marvin so the fish 'n' chips never lasted long Staged fit pics of the WoM 5150s with the other stuff I'm wearing regularly... not much to see yet... this looks like being a slow burn for me And nope... a quick sea-wash didn't tempt me... this time

This ones a good story. This was my dad’s restaurant he owned in Seattle in the mid-late 80s. The story goes that when he and his brother purchased the business, they didn’t want to demolish the cool, vintage “Leroys Grill” neon sign, so they just decided to name it Leroys. They found a bunch of branded gear in the attic and gave it away (wasn’t really a ‘buy a t-shirt’ kind of establishment during their time). By the time he passed, he only had one “Leroys” sweater left, and he gave it to my sister. The Christmas after he passed, my mom gave this to me. She randomly stumbled across it on Etsy being sold by a vintage reseller. No backstory as to where it was found (probably a thrift store of course). Definitely one of my prized possessions

FW x 2 / @Duke Mantee not visible / MiJ Converse with thanks to @Geeman... seem to have misplaced my hammer

Roy R01 black seed cone

Vintage Harley Davidson tshirt circa 1995. It’s my lucky shirt that’s been sewn a hundred times due to wear and tear.

M&S shirt and Jumper Levis 550 vintage Blundstones

I think I've had that one at some point, or at least definitely spent time with it. Excellent but exactly what you'd expect, and nothing more, if you know what I mean? I like this book, gratuitous boob cover notwithstanding. It feels very personal and includes a lot of bootleg Ts, which I like.

I'm increasingly convinced after this pic that one of the best ways to rock double denim is to introduce a nice pop of colour elsewhere, like that great yellow hat. Love the fit.

Denime - Arket - WMJ - Puma

Workshop fit surplus, mannufaturra ceccallini , fullcount, vans, non vis Jameson, William lockie because I’d rather take something off than have it cold

Poten Stevenson Overall on Full Count on Allevol Buzz Red Wing

I Liked the shirt so much I wore it again. I like this fit better. Nonnative Phigvel Wesco

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

tcb catboy sugarcane tcb 50s

Carhartt Atlast & co Danner