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Blanket lined WH jacket, Sugar Cane 47s, and favorite soft serve.

1945 jacket and 1946 jeans

papa nui / ground-alls / warehouse / tender / rw

Museum pose papa Nui, dehen 1920, Fullcount , vans

These were starting to get stinky so I gave them a bath today. Good day to try let them dry outside too:

Phigvel tshirt phigvel 302 wesco Romeo

Went to Monet’s house in Giverny the other day. Too many people for my liking, but lovely flowers:

ebayed department of agriculture forestry filson / wom 611 / rw / neighbour’s dog (apparently stoned from eating weird poo in the park-yukk) plus: not a forest but fruit tree blossoming both on main tree and from wee offcuts used to mark out me asian greens…

No studs … just two needles and one piece of thread to bind two bits of leather into a 6.5mm thick beast

For posterity…

Some quick update of the 221s i bought from bf. Been wearing since november , but not exclusively. Waited 3 months before 1st wash and now im on monthly washes. Really looking this denim!

Russian calf as an accessory for the belt I just posted

Re^ 'camwhoreing' .. i once caught a wonderful exchange between two fishermen.. before we moved house, i was sat fishing at the side of the local pond, these two other blokes turned up, one around 30ish one around 50ish.. one had a disposable BBQ under his arm, the other had a 24 pack of Stella, they sat at the opposite side of the pond to me, around 10m apart.. but sound carries amazingly well over water.. The older one said.. "Such and such is doing pretty well for himself nowadays" Younger one.. "it's his missus who earns all the money y'know" "What does she do for a living" ? "She's one o'them camgirls" "A what?" ..explanation followed.. "..and you earn money from this"? "Yep, that's how they bought that caravan at Mablethorpe" "How much was that"? "£10,000" "£10,000!!! .. i'll have to get our old lass doing it"

tcb / word of mouth 611 / r-mocs elbows up…

Yes sorry to hear about your mom @bartlebyyphonics.

Adding to the gardening talk in the contest thread - I spend some time mostly each spring trying to set our now mostly established pollinator garden up for success. Light layer of mulch to spread this year after deadheading all of last years growth, and still some light weeding to do my best to keep out invasives. Lots of alliums, bluestar, goldenrod, false indigo (yellow), coneflowers, sedges, butterfly weed - I’m forgetting some - and a stray milkweed shoot setting up here. The goal is basically to have a little bit of prairie - mostly natives - in the front yard instead of grass. We have a (comparatively at least) small lawn as it is but happy to have even less here. Bonus of my favorite tree a weeping cherry in full bloom. Okay well a tie for my favorite with out black walnut. I was wearing the contest jeans but no pic of that!

Elegant bookmark I got a really long time ago

and some shots from early april: up in york for annual art historian conference (gave my paper in 1890s tcb tux, sorry compers…): some slides of other papers with a medley from sunny scarborough where we were staying… its nice up north… (note slide on fluxus artist who worked from okayama…) jean deets with f-all fades and barely any creasing: gonna take a while…

Tender Co. / Ooe / The Vanishing West / Ballpark / Hollows / Word of Mouth / Wearmasters

the wardrobe was overflowing with denim I was never going to get back into, so after a cull this is my thinned out list. The first 6 will be my main summer wears (though the painter pants and lot1221 are a bit tighter than ideal, but OK after a few hours stretch) Full Count 0105 13.7oz (29) Tender 132 (2) Tender 125 (2) TCB Seamen's Pants (32) Orslow Painter pant (2) warehouse lot 1221 (30) occasional wears Warehouse 700C (30) Warehouse 800 (32) LVC '47 (33) LVC '37 (32) Orslow 105 (1) mainly gardening/DIY wears Tender 129 (3) TCB 40s (32) fade contest pair Edwin Rainbow Selvedge slimmer than I like at the moment/may move on Resolute 710 (32) Stevenson Overalls 717 (30) trying not to buy any more this year, but tempted by the FC super smooth 1937s

I wanted to share a recent denim blunder but first I'd like to say that I'm a denim noob. For probably 10 years I would wear cheap denim for months at a time without washing but I never knew about fades or denim quality. I was just a broke skateboarder, and I thought never washing my jeans would keep them looking new so people wouldn't realize I was poor. After discovering selvedge denim and more importantly this community, I've learned so much about the finer details. When I first dipped my toes into the world of selvedge denim, I decided to buy a pair from Iron & Resin, mostly because of the pocket layout in the front. Somewhere along the way in my "research" process I saw a video of guys wearing their denim in the ocean and talking about the fades this would produce so of course I had to try it. Since my last trip to the ocean, I've added a few more pairs to my collection and my Iron & Resin salty denim haven't gotten much wear time. Today I put them on and one of the buttons on the fly came apart due to corrosion from the salt water -__-

thanks @srudy, @ashgiovanni, @MJF9, @beautiful_FrEaK, @ATWM, @vIGGiou riou and @Dr_Heech: really appreciate it… @ATWM: you’re correct: these were slides from various panels: one of digital art practices (crazy slide of surveillance cameras in prc classroom…), another on non-human migration meets human structures (talks on seeds retrieved from old ballast, another on animal movements and us-mexico walk) and another on ‘the misunderstood artist’ (and the imperative of artist to explain themselves)… my paper is around some 2017/18 projects by three african american artists who worked with chatbots: in wider context of how to think around AI and limited / specific data sets to avoid perpetuating techno-bro white supremacy (see musk’s x-ing great replacement conspiracy) and to think AI in other realm than great replacement… talked most about martine syms’ piece ‘mythiccbeing’… but stephanie dinkins ‘ntoo’ and american artist’s ‘sandy speaks’ get mention too

I dont know....it could look REALLY cool with navy socks, a pair of similarly colored jeans and a chambray shirt.

Honey, is everything okay? You've barely touched your joafers.

Shoulder rust.. ? You heard it here first people..

thanks @Maynard Friedman life isn’t forever but endings are difficult/ raise questions and challenges: we had fairly existential differences, how to keep the good and let go of the rest… those that go before us leave us all kinds of gifts… in the vein of @julian-wolf’s gardening: compared to his orderly plantings i am wrangling some wilderness at the back: hacking away as self seeded sycamores that have grown into fencing… ‘oh inch of life’…

Warehouse 800xx in 32, I believe they were about 81-82cm in the waist and shrunk down to 74 stretched back out to 80 in one day. I wore many slim straight pairs, Fullcount 1108, iron heart 666, flathead 3009, pbj, momotaro etc, they all stretched and sagged below my hips. These are really nice because the high rise allows my belt to sit above my hips and prevents any sagging. the denim is very rough and uncomfortable compared to the nice Zimbabwe cotton in other brands, I’m eager to break these things in hard like my flatheads. I’m going to avoid putting my cell phone and wallet in the rear pockets as it seems to promote too much stretching in the seat of the jeans.

Here are the sandals

it’s true we met and it was lovely! my attempt: Did you jump onboard or not../ how fking sufu actually are you? Size down craze.. Hell No Slept in jeans.. Often: laziness mostly Diors.. pfff Fancy wallet.. never no Engineer boots.. Hell Yes Ocean wash.. No Resolute washing / fit having previously not.. No Never washing.. No: always washing Coffee wash.. No Slubby or streaky.. a little slubby sometimes: early kurabo lvc had some streak to it Heavy oz denimz.. tender 16/17oz count? Joined a contest.. On my third? Joined a tour.. No APC.. No Fancy washing detergent.. no Worn denim while raw.. No Paid for an expensive repair.. No Wallet jewelry.. No Numerous pairs of very expensive boots.. define expensive? most pricey £700 Numerous pairs of identical jeans.. not quite Numerous fancy leather belts.. no, sorry @Duke Mantee Native American Japanese jewelry.. No: but in dead parents jewellry did find indigenous ring and cuffs: contemplated getting some japanese stuff to add to them: have found better navajo examples… Jacket suitable for the Arctic.. not yet Unreadable Japanese language magazines.. Yes Dressed like a sailor.. No Dressed like a miner.. yes Dressed like an urban lumberjack.. daily Mill repro.. ? Dressed like a railway worker.. ? Stacked.. Never Starch..No Freezer.. No Fancy socks.. No Handmade English shoes.. yes Whites Semi Dress.. No Discharge print.. no Own less than 10% of the clothing you bought since joining.. no: keep 80% give rest away Photo of jeans in bathtub.. obs Wore jeans wet..Yes £2000 leather jacket.. not yet: £500 is the limit Numerous repro denim jackets all from same era.. Yes: type 1 is king Bought jeans nobody else owned.. no Barf / Man stain / Shit oneself in jeans.. not yet: keeping trying Please contribute.. jewellry from 70s - bought in canada i believe but screams south west… then more recent navajo purchases: ring from two feathers in brighton (unpolished turquoise: hefty ring), the cuff stamped ‘nora’ made by nora tahe bill: beefy 4lb hammer work…

MF, orSlow, Sams, Allbirds

hello all: sorry for lack of posts: my mother died unexpectedly the day these jeans arrived… quite the negative co-incidence… lots of plane alarms set off by jeans in travelling to la belle france where she lived: some dramatic skies from the area lemanique to mark it…

Someone had asked about longer type 1 jackets. This is one option. For size 4 (L/XL) in a one/wash with shoulders 51cm and chest 59cm it has a back length of 71cm (vs. say a WH or FWs in 42 or 44 with around 61cm). This is also offered for a very reasonable price of JPY 19,800. The denim is 14oz selvedge, apparently all made/produced in Japan: Kurashiki, Okayama. https://acidhouse.stores.jp/items/679c8667b859d3030c0ff020

Back from the beach and back in the Rockets Denime/Brooks Brothers/Hollows/Rockets/Rancourt

A photo still of Elvis Presley during a break from filming 'Loving you' (1957). I've seen the movie and seen pretty much all of the stills from the movie that are available online but never this particular shot, which l thought l'd share here. 507XX and 501

Same pick up Notes: - Cinch back needle is very sharp, abit tricky when fastening into the appropriate position. - Cuff's buttonhole ridiculously small, not sure if that is also part of the repro charm... Overall, pretty rad jacket.

1960's Big Mac dungarees with lots of repairs still going strong.

A miniature and very cheap (around 1 USD) coffee filter. I bought it during recent trip to Vietnam. It’s used everywhere there. I also discovered the world of Vietnamese coffee, learning that Vietnam is one of the main coffee exporters in the world. The most popular coffee there is robusta. But my favorite coffee at the moment is luwak.

Overkill for a home setup, but worked great for a catering cart!

Feel daft putting this in the Nice things thread, but l've had it hanging around in the loft for donkeys years and it's just found a new owner so. It complies to something nice that l love within my home but also it was my home on and off for a couple of years away back in my yoof. Macpac super lightweight backpacking tent, which l bought in June 1996, packed away in 1999 and hardly used since. Certainly not used in the last 20 years. Selling point for me that it was the lightest tent on the market at the time and is quick and easy to use. I hiked it around Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand for nearly 2 years and at one point it was pitched in one place for two months! It really was compact living. And in situ in the garden with his mate's tents.. Hopefully my son will get into using it more often.

(Please excuse the lack of legs, they were removed and stored in drawers for transportation. Also mirror is not pictured but it was included.) My girlfriend and I put an offer on a house a few weeks ago that didn't get accepted, but in a weird small world coincidence it turned out that the seller was one of my college professors who I've kept somewhat in touch with professionally. Since it was his father's house which he inherited, and he was just trying to clear it out I reached out to him to see if he was interested in some extra cash for some of the furniture. There was a bunch of furniture that we loved, but this Johnson Carper set stuck out in particular. He wasn't interested in selling, he just wanted it gone and was happy to give it to us for free. I don't know much about mcm resale value, but I gotta imagine this set could easily sell for at least $700 or so. We just had an offer accepted yesterday, so hopefully everything looks good after inspections and this stuff doesn't have to live in my parents' dining room to long. Bedside table, tallboy, lowboy with mirror, and headboard. Also got a cool hanging wall lamp that I don't have a good picture of.

I agree that the Joafers are not the worst thing ever but it does cross the "is this bad?" line while I think with sandals, it works. That nylon type I is from the Levis x Porter collab they did a few years ago. https://hypebeast.com/2020/10/levis-porter-type-ii-jacket-collaboration-release-information

Nice contrast between the faded and bluer 46 jeans and the new darker indigo denim of the 45 506.

Thanks gents... I think Coda in tortoise. Ideally a shop that ships direct and is flexible

Still my favourite pair - XX-013

and last post among the splurges: whilst in doom scrolling mode in the midst of the trump-vance performances, saw that vance was profiled as reading neo-reactionary writer curtis yarvin: thought to share an earlyish text on those anti-democratic techno-bro-monarchists for spring time optimism…

1001XX 25th anniversary

You know me better than that MJ I don’t do a single 1945 jacket, I do the entire range.. with possibly a backup kept in a sealed bag.

Finally gpt a chance to get this jacket