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1946-47 506xx new vs 2 years, 9 months. Wear pattern partly backpack related I think. Also RIP my hair 🥲

Nothing much to show on my end. These are nights and weekends only so not much heavy wear. I really like the fit and fabric though. The way I oversized them has left me with a lot of room in the hip and seat making for very comfortable cycle commuting, but being a true '50s cut they are still pretty straight through the hip which I like. I'm going longer between washes right now because of the light wear. I haven't washed at all since the start and likely won't until late March or April. We'll see how that changes as the weather warms up and it gets into motorcycle season.

Papa Nui x The Major's Tailor cap / Freewheelers 1946-47 506XX & Trackwalker Overalls / Nicks boots

My resolution to not buy any pants in 2025 lasted 3 months. I got the Boncoura painter pants in the 15oz black warp white weft denim. I generally avoided this color of denim but this one is pretty dark and not metallic gray looking and i like how i can wear it with other black clothes without looking too monochrome. The fit is pretty roomy but has some shape to it still. The slight taper in the leg is nice when the top block and thighs are on the wider side. Boncoura details are always fun with the hidden coin pocket, selvedge id on the inside of the back pockets and branded zipper. I went with the raw hem which I’ll probably chain stitch later down the line when I’m sick of this.

Great Lakes x2 / Power Wear / Pizza Pants / Russell Mocs

Stevenson, Sugar Cane, Barbour, 3sixteen, Georgia Boot. Probably could’ve ditched one of the jackets today, but I’m not ready to give up any layers just yet..

Tender / WMJ / Tender

Starting to feel like spring here (you can tell based on the receding snow line) Denime/Vintage hemp workshirt from Patagonia/Rockets/Franks Wythe/Whitesville/Denime/Franks

Despite my earlier, it's sprint night right now...

2015 cone lvc 1954Z & tcb contest 40s Artificial on lvc, naturalnon tcb. Both post wash

Need extra wool this morning so out came the Curious Yak jumper with Tender shirt and Ooe jeans.

Amazing sky this morning on my ride to work.. Last part... .. i got the runner system and the pattern finished, this is the top half, the exothermic sleeves will fit over these locators, all of the flanges have a machined outer face, so the heads can be cut off and the remnants will be machined away, the only head which needs a bit of grinding / shaping will be the small pad over the body junction.. but better safe than sorry. I've put some padding behind the flange so the head can feed through the flange and into the body, there is no reason why this bit of padding can't be part of the finished cast part.. ..there are fancy equations to calculate the modulus but in layman's (is layman an anogram of maynard?) terms, you're fitting imagined spheres into what will become the casting.. so something like this (it's actually more like a compressed tennis ball shape) the center of the largest sphere will remain hot / be the last part to cool, so this will feed the casting, the neck has a similar volume to the flange, the sphere in the exo sleeve is smaller but the sleeve should keep it equally hot.. this boring ass mofo explains it a bit better.. Thanks for the interest everyone.. so who's next to explain what they do between sufu posts..?

Looks amazing.. my mum is trying to grow lemons.. sadly they still look like small nobbly limes Sadly not, i'd love an apprentice to pass my knowledge onto.. but i would never recommend it as a career choice.. there is no future in pattern making, 70% of everything i learned during my apprenticeship has next to no modern day application.. and probably 50% of those skills are non transferable to other sectors.. it's all dependent on a buoyant industrial sector and there is hardly any industry left in the UK, even here in Sheffield, the spiritual home of steel making. Just these last few months, British Steel (which incidentally, is a Chinese company) stopped producing steel while they transition from a polluting blast furnace to a more environmentally friendly electric arc furnace, this can only be a good thing but due to lack of planning, they've closed the site resulting in 2800 job losses, the new arc furnace will not be operational till 2030..so we're not producing steel, we're buying it in.. the knock on effect of this has devastated their suppliers, some of whom were my customers, good 3rd generation family businnesses .. it's just been a steady decline since the outsourcing of the 90s / victims of globalisation... few got richer, many got poorer. Secondly.. I've been quoting against machines for the last decade which has driven prices down so i have to work more hours to make the same amount of money.. Lastly, whatever time i spend training someone is time away from my job, when there are 8 other people producing work for 10hrs/day, if one of them spends 5hrs/day training an apprentice, the cost to your output as a company is negligible, but when you only have one person, that 5hrs/day will result in a 50% loss of production.. i'm not making enough money to shoulder it. Ikr.. it's a 20min ride from home so many folks take the Peaks for granted.. when they're out there, they say "my god! this is incredible, we should do this every weekend.. 6mths later "we should go out to the Peaks we haven't done it for ages" .. I could watch boulderers all day @julian-wolf .. folks think it's just about slapping some chalk on your hands and climbing up a rock.. but they'll arrive, with numerous books, they'll find an unoccupied rock, pull out a book, sit down and study routes, pull out field notes and start making notes and sketches of where holds are.. then mime it out.. this is before they've even pulled on rock shoes

Wrangler Hanes DIY Blundstones

Another photo dump on these STF 501s Almost 2 years of occasional wear with a lot of activity in the last 9 months. Still starchy and crunchy, the indigo is slowly chipping away revealing the light blue and white slubs nicely contrasting with the pink weft. I love this denim. Last shot under interior lighting.

It’s a mini relay… with just 2 legs.

Haha that's a good shout... linguini laces to go with my pizza jeans

You could shove an old leather belt through your pasta maker.

I’m in it to win it 😤

Before wash #2 Pocket bags are fading even faster than the denim itself!

Love this jacket. I can wear it with any pair of jeans in my closet, and it looks... correct. Knowing how fast this denim fades, I'm sure I'll see some fun wear and tear soon.

Hahaha... go steady mate... the transition thereafter is to @Maynard Friedman

Not as exciting as Double0's story, which actually got me thinking about learning a craft at almost 30, but still fun nonetheless. Last year my wife & I built a greenhouse for our balcony. We only keep citrus in it, at the moment, might put our pomegranate in there as well one day. Since we got a share in a garden plot end of last year I got into grafting fruit trees & trimming them to keep them healthy, so this is the greenhouse with it's post winter haircut. From back left to front right: Citrumelo, Nasho-Daidai, Yuzu, Sanguinello Blood Orange, Satsuma/Mandarin hybrid (2x), Ichang-Orange & Yuzu (4x, seed-grown). This was after the harvest of our last "bloody" oranges from the big Sanguinello plant, beginning of february, seen here. Those were great, especially considering we are in a newly classified zone 8a, as of December 2024, and not 7b anymore, which get's a bit colder. Usually these are grown in zones 9b upwards, but the greenhouse & mild winter did a great job. Just had to heat it on 3-4 nights, when it got below -7 °C. With all of this, I pulled the trigger on a few rootstocks for propagating of my collection, maybe even put one in the garden plot. I got some trifoliate orange rootstock, put it near the window for a few weeks and waited for the leaves to sprout, meaning it got out of it's winter hibernation. Then yesterday after work I got out my grafting tools and tried my hand at grafting, let's hope it works out. Tried my hand at grafting 1 Citrange & 2 Yuzus, maybe I will try a cocktail-tree in the future.

Been lurking for a bit but first time posting here. Hopefully I did this right. Cheers TCB 50s / Samurai Heavy Chinos / Blundstone

Been lacking on updates, but I snapped a couple of photos this weekend. Enjoying the jeans a lot so far, just not getting much sleep these days.

Regarding the different denim fabrics. Here is a interesting comparison of the WH 1936 type 1 model Lot 2001XX(2000XX) (which was first released around three years ago, Jan. 2022; ca. 13.7oz, I couldn't find any exact weight number, it's stated as 7.5x 7.5 pink selvedge in Dead Stock Blue) and the Duck Digger Standard Type 1 Lot DD-2001 (in Banner denim 13.5oz, 7x7). As can be seen from ca. 00:37 onwards the 1936 DSB on the left is more blue, while the DD banner denim type 1 on the right is more red cast, they even say purple. The DSB they say is meant to resemble a new old stock denim, that has been sleeping somewhere for decades, while the banner denim is supposed to be close to what vintage denim looks like.

It's this time of the year again. Carnival. Or like they call it here "Fastnacht". So we visited a small procession in a nearby village.

1002 Leepro

Usual Sunday shananigans... Freewheelers x 4 / @Duke Mantee non-vis / Converse MiJ

S1003XX hemmed, washed again, and tried on. Yeah, I like these. Still mystery around what the fabric is - even wondered whether it was the same as the Signet x Warehouse contest jeans fabric. That was said to be a WW2 fabric, and had the same mustard selvedge id.

LVC 1944

I really like that Type 3. I have the Type 2 (232) and it gets a lot of wear in my office. 濃紺 毛羽立ち 旧 Denime ドゥニーム 1937年 501 SXX w32 オリゾンティ デニム ジーンズ D-HG1118 革パッチ 真空 ビンテージ 大戦 66xx USA item details | JDirectItems Auction | One Map by FROM JAPAN ^ 10th Anniversary model in 32/28 in very good condition?

Hope this helps sorry about the grammar

Here you go @MJF9 https://www.timberland.co.uk/en-gb/c/men/accessories/laces-79548 https://williamlennon.co.uk/shop/leather-laces/ They're not recommendations, just a quick search..

^^ it's a marathon not a sprint gents 😉... actually I think that's what I keep saying to reassure myself after seeing everyone's jeans progressing very nicely @julian-wolf @Broark looking good!

@julian-wolf feel free to slow down for the rest of us 😂

Cheat day Denime - Libra Pondus 40s - Duke - RW

denim pullover is probably my favorite FW piece.

More S516XX, with S601XX - same denim, jeans have been worn and washed more. Also love the puckering on the hem of the jacket.

deadstock Helmut Lang brown type 3 from 25 years ago, OG-107, Carpe Diem would have showed this off sooner if my regular chair hadn’t broken down. Only just got a backup manual chair to be able to get out of bed. Waiting on bureaucracy to replace a power cable….

As long as you can still buy the regular one, it's fine, I guess. But I'm more disappointed about the jacket situation. Just look at the J47A, clean, refined, minimalist, yet unmistakably ACRONYM. Meanwhile, the J123TS looks like an abomination, randomly stitched together from different parts of the past.

today I marked up 30 days in, so here you go.... also I have to point to @Alec Leamas. it's Italian painstaking approach to details and comfort of the clothing.... Thx Simone...

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

https://zenmarket.jp/en/auction.aspx?itemCode=v1174329719 M41001, Size 32, ¥25k

^ I heard a rumour that prime Dorian Yates was planning on entering one of the first Sufu contests... the issue was his 33 inch waist, with each leg 30 inch round 😉

Evis 2101 lazy S Lee cowboy 101 repro with intact white paint

Just washing. Place I am now I have a water softener for the first time so maybe its salt the from the softener speeding up the process, I dunno. I like it.