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Freewheelin’ with an Iron Heart!

Starting renovations on the house my girlfriend and I just bought. Only main floor room that doesn't work with her wheelchair is the bathroom, but since there's a tub/shower combo as well as a standalone shower, we are able to rip out the shower to make more room for her chair. Still a lot more work to do, the demolition is the only part that absolutely needs done before move in. Re-tiling, door install, etc. can be done as we go. Happy with the progress my dad and I made today. Before After My mom also started removing wallpaper in the master bedroom and we found some hieroglyphics from the 50s.

SDA anniversary kakishibu type II, Warehouse cowboy pants, Golden Retriever…

What a glorious day! ..made some breakfast, ..rode up to the tennis courts ..met the offspring there ..all the tennis pro's wear 90s era floral Stussy shorts and battered old Chucks ..kid zooms off back home, racket on back.. headphones on

Vintage levis 501s Vintage jcrew shirt Chucks

Changed 3 windows in our secondary dining room (adjacent to the kitchen). Just one more to go. The former owners used this room as some kind of winter garden. We made it a bit more cozy and now it was about time to replace these single-glazed windows to something more substantial. Still need to cover the gaps as well

Went to Scotland. Nothing to report

Vtg corduroy Rose Bowl hat Vtg Selvedge bandana Unif Cardigan Skeleton Key Brewery tee Vtg belt w/ brass buckle Wide cropped selvedge 1960s Frye

Hansen / Carhartt / SC / Flower mountain

WW2 Levis S501XX

Got myself the 45th anniversary kakishibu type II. It’s lovely, with a lot more orange / pink than beige.

Vintage tie, J Crew, Sugar Cane, OG-107s, Kleman

tee Freewheelers 1947 Nicks boots

Freewheelers Lot.506XX 30s model (size 40, cold soaked, from 2013) • Warehouse S1001XX (1946) Deluxeware 50s Buffalo Check

Full Count 1101, PF Flyers (MiJ), dog.

Couple of favourites still on active duty... I like the faded gradients on the screen print for this one, plus it's such a strange way to plug a resort... This Pat Metheny 1993 tour shirt was a thrift store find, but I would definitely have been there if they'd come out to Australia at that point. From about '86–'89 my night-time listening consisted of C-90 cassettes compiled by my guitar teacher – I'd put them on as I was going to sleep (as a result, there were tracks on the B-sides I only discovered after a few years, and many I was unaware I'd assimilated until encounters later in life) – and one prominent side was a bootleg (made by the same teacher) of a Sydney show, with the track "Phase Dance" looming large in my psyche. Later, in 2020, I scored a last-minute ticket on a whim to see Metheny and experienced many of those tracks from my teenage subconscious... a memorable evening, not least because it was the last thing I saw before pandemic lockdowns hit. Unbeknownst to me I'd been able to get the ticket so easily due to all the cancellations – there were many empty rows in the grand old theatre...

ROOM jeans Whitesville Left Field NYC Blundstone

50s after another wash 🔵 I've avoided the dryer this time to reduce any shrinkage

S&M Bikes Sugarcane M11026 War Model Vintage Champion Gildan SC-47s Chucks

Went for a night at a camping, sat around a fire all night. Was pretty good. it was cold though, my camping gear is not for freezing conditions

Yeah - I got a pair from Naoki that arrived at the start of the week. The Okinawa denim was calling me after I reacquainted myself with my MF Ranch Blouse but, after taking a closer look, plumped for the Hawaii for a change and out of curiosity. What great denim. So nice. I was a bit hasty and forgot to get them hemmed so it's heavy double cuffing until I do. I know what you'll say... yes the denim rail is coming under a lot of stress lately... but I am otherwise pretty low-cost 😁

Spring is here so today I'm happily wearing Superstitch LR01 / Sugar Cane 53 tux.

Ooe Yofukuten / Rototo / Tezomeya / Samurai / Converse

FW 1947

Lot.506XX 30s model (size 40, cold soaked, from 2013)

I run in the vaporfly for pace work and brooks or hoka for easy work. I didn't think the alphafly would be such a huge step up, but they are incredible. Very stable with tons of energy return. The ball of your fit sits just to the back of the air bubble so you roll onto it as you toe off, it's full length carbon plate for maximum spring and the entire sole is their zoom X foam which is very cushioned but gives loads of spring back. I'm in now way a fast runner, 1hr 48 mins is my Half Marathon PB (I'm 52 for f*cks sake!) but even I feel the benefit of these. The blurb

Friday Night Dinner The key part of the premise: “They are frequently interrupted by their strange but good-hearted neighbour Jim Bell, who is attracted to Jackie and visits them due to his loneliness; he is usually accompanied by his dog, Wilson, of whom he is afraid. After Wilson's death, Jim adopts a new dog, whom he names Milson.”

One of my rarest. And most tattered. Roy Lichtenstein X Guggenheim "Grrrrrrrr!" T shirt In 1993 the Guggenheim Museum used Lichtenstein's 1965 work "Grrrrrrrrrrr!" In promotional materials to advertise their upcoming show: "Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective". They sold this shirt in the gift shop. It has since become a collector's item. I found it about 20 years ago thrifting and loved it so much that I nearly destroyed it. In fact it made quite a few WAYWT appearances in the early 2000s. Very high rotation. It was so beat up I recently bought a reprint so I could semi retire the OG. You can see the reprint image size is a bit smaller and the shirt is pretty thin in comparison. And aside from a few coffee drips it's also still white.

Amusing myself while my wife shops. WWII USN M422 jacket, work shirt, 555 '1947 501xx, ATF Paratrooper boots.

@Double 0 Soul your foot sits atop. All that foam is cushion for the pushing! And I do not wear them with jeans although with how much they cost I bloody should wear them more.

Nike Air Zoom Victory spikes with carbon fibre plate in action... with a win today at the lad's season opener 👍

Brooks Vantage Heritage, released in 2014 I think, although I bought this pair a couple of years later, from Brooks UK. Here’s a couple of links about them and the originals from 1976/77 here and here. I must get around to wearing these!

I bought this one at the Yankees store in South Street Seaport (NYC) in 1999, purely for the name on the back.

These 2 I’ve had since 1990. I did some work for a friend (well, more a friend of a friend) who used to own the brand and shop Boxfresh and now owns Boxpark and was paid in clothing he was dealing in. The no alla violenza ones were produced for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. I used to have another in grey and another of the basketball ones in red until my sister stole them. He also gave me a coach jacket, some Soffe sweatshorts and a Burro t-shirt (they shared an industrial unit in Lewisham).

Sugarcane Day.. feat M11026

This got me thinking back though there is always a risk given the huge time-span that I conflate years. Like Maynard, school years were predominantly Adidas - Adidas shoes (Corsica, Dakar), Samba, Bamba etc - and many hours were spent in Liverpool at Wade Smiths lusting after rare af German Adidas imports (think we discussed this a few years back). Though I fondly recall getting a pair of Hi-Tek Silver Shadow, which doubled up for running and knocking around it. I remember bouncing out of the shop in them (yep wore them straight off the bat) like they were the best thing ever with the comfort making up for the fact they weren't the coolest pair... yet. We had a 200m cinder/gravel athletics track at school... I'm pretty sure I was wearing the Hi-Tek when I broke the 400m school record... not intending for gratuitous self PR here... I mention it because my lad and I were comparing times at similar age... and I had to make the point that he's wearing carbon fibre spikes weighing 125g per shoe on a modern 400m track, whereas I was skidding around corners on gravel in my 1.25kg shoes (ok slightly exaggerated but you get the point). The only Nike I had in my yoof were spikes. Given the advances in running shoes and running tracks, it makes World Records like David Rudisha's 800m in 1.40.91 from 2012 and Seb Coe's UK record of 1.41.73 from 1981 (44 years ago) all that more remarkable. I love the Nike Waffles from OO but they wouldn't cut it for serious athletes these days given the advances in technology. Very nice for 'feet-up Fridays' though!!

So it started with Texture. Then Voluminous jeans with texture. Then Heavy voluminous jeans with texture. Then Dark heavy voluminous jeans with texture… anyway you know how it can spiral… I’ll do the Sugar Cane Hawaii post soon for further proof of that 😉 Anyhow these 17oz Samurai S3100VX WW2 model landed today… and they’re ace. They meet the brief perfectly. Great service from Daniel at DC4 in Berlin... and lovely hemming to boot... using actual Samurai thread so it’s all matchy-matchy… I’m going with one big 3-inch fuck-off bucket cuff... no stopping me... 😀

Okinawas drying in the sun.

Ooe - Denime - Duke - Denime WW2 - Puma

Playing tourist at Chicago's Cloud Gate "The Bean". (Anish Kapoor still sucks) Ebbets cap Wool BSA coat Vtg Levis trucker Vtf Eraserhead Tee Vtg belt Wide leg selvedge denim Vtg Frye

Meh.. i spent a good decade collecting 'sneakers i don't wear at all'

Reg. the fit, I was between 2 sizes and I got the larger option (42 in my case). It is maybe a tad long in the body but the sleeves and shoulders are a-OK. It will move a bit as it loosens up (it's very stiff right now) and as I wash it. Yesterday was the first time I was wearing it, and someone asked me in the street if it was the SDA jacket. That's only happened to me a couple times before...

I've just splashed out on a pair of Alphafly, that Eliud Kipchoge wears and endorses... They won't make me run like him but they are so wildly far from normal running trainers, they are incredible to run in.

The top one I bought in a little shop in Brick Lane in 1999. The second, I think in Greenwich in the very early 2000s.

More Waffling.. Deadstock 2012 Vntg Elites Yellowing mid Washed out suede Even the mould spots on the laces are intentional repro.. to mimic the appearance of boxed vintage 1971 - 1980 Golden age of Nike.. Oh Mama! Iconic 70s swoosh shape 2012 - 2013 Vntg Repro

I'm dropping a few more photos that I captured of the M41001, which I missed the first time. Jeans are now in process of being shrunk. I will show the before and after measuring tape photos of the waist along with fit once they've fully air dried (probably later in weekend or next week). The back of all the fly buttons are stamped with "S"

Recent uniform Bike helmet when on bike Sc vest, lvc x stussy jacket, sc, asics