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SCSC 1945 tux... 'before' and 'after' 30C machine wash, line dry

One more for the road. 4 absolutely sun filled days in the Lake District. All the rain gear was a waste in packing. We’re maybe not as hearty as Julian and the overnight backpackers but first real vacation (just us) since our son was born during the pandemic. Perfect trip, lots mostly mellow day miles with some amazing scenery and great food in the evening. Sad to leave. despite being a photographer really didn’t take many pictures, more just enjoyed being outside. But my wife did take some at the top of a little hill. If I have anything from my other camera to share when I get home I will, but I prefer bad weather for landscapes! Jeans will def need their 2nd wash upon return. I think a darning repair is imminent, so they may drop out of rotation until I get it sorted 😣

Tender shades / The Vanishing West ‘47 506xx / Power Wear x Motor Psyclone / new from Duke / contest jeans / old TFH kicks

Thanks for the kind messages everyone. We’re all doing well. Sleep pattern is nonexistent but seems to be working somehow. Our baby girl (unnamed currently) is going great, shes small but mighty, and has a very cheery disposition. Im managing to wear the WOM Jeans each day, even if it’s at 3am for the feed and change! I’ll keep you posted! Thanks.

xx-011's

Got up this morning and Leonard had made a new friend ..made some coffee WH 506 drying on the line after it's annual wash ..rode up to Burbage ..stopped for a drink, wearing Odd Future Vans ..rode to The Surprise View ..this is where Porsche drivers plummet to their deaths.. y'know, not paying attention, singing along to Maroon 5 on the radio.. just picked the wife up from her bi-monthly session of lip fillers and anal bleaching, rushing to get to the golf club for a Cinzano.. when all of a suden "Surprise!" and you're off the cliff.. and here's you thinking Sheffield's only contribution to society was steel and synth-pop ..it's actually just over the border in Derbyshire but that doesn't quite fit my narative. ..can you spot the chalked out routes? .. Empty Rubicon can came in handy / Keeping Britain Tidy ..Rode through Hathersage to Hope and stopped to drink my coffee at The Adventure Cafe.. my bike was far too cool and aloof to mix with the others. ..lovely oak gate on the way to Edale Edale ..in the foothills of Kinder Scout ..up the back of Mam Tor ..down t'other side ..broken road 😍 ..home pottery in Castleton selling hand made ceramics ..Lady Cannings on the way home ..and when i got home after a 5.5hr ride feeling absolutely exhaused, my wonderful offspring had bought me a big bottle of Lychee Mogu Mogu ..the worlds greatest non-alchoholic drink

Some pics of my 50s as I mentioned them in the Denim Blunders thread and realised I hadn't shared before.

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SCSC '45 jeans and jacket, '42 jeans, FW sweatshirt and War Denim book thrown in ftw!

I'm still an avid collector of records. I don't know how many thousands I have at this point. Everything from 1950s Rockabilly 45s to blues and jazz 78rpms from the 1920s-1940s, and tons of LPs (10inch and 12inch) covering various 'vintage genres'. I've never been much of an organizer so finding anything specific can be a challenge. The only segment of the collection I'm still intimately familiar with is a section of about 600 LPs that I shipped from England when I decided that the US would be my permanent home. I suppose the fact that those 600 LPs were so intensely and voraciously devoured during my formative years means that they're permanently seared upon my consciousness. But frankly at this pint in my life this huge collection feels like a bit of an albatross. Sometimes I'm tempted to get rid of the lot. Then I start imagining myself ten years from now, spending more time at home and getting back into actually listening to, rather than just accumulating records. Then I wonder if I'm trying to recapture something from my youth that in reality has gone never to return? I remember being so fascinated by my parents' record player, one of those wood console type things that always seemed to be on the fritz, and the handful of cool looking albums that my dad would play (Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads comes to mind). One Christmas they got me a small player of my own. Best present ever...The sheer magic of intently absorbing those particular musical sounds that fascinated me. I truly had the bug. I started accumulating and never stopped. Now I'm left wondering if I've lost the capacity to sit through a side of an LP and enjoy it. So many available distractions... Lift the needle off while I listen to 30 seconds of something else on youtube...Maybe it's not just kids whose attention spans are being 'evolved' by technology?

Happy with how these have shrunk. Washed at 40, low spin. Great weather for drying jeans too. Waist has shrunk 2 inches. Inseam 3 inches. The denim is a vibrant blue which I was expecting with the 60s. But it's also quite neppy which I wasn't expecting so chuffed about that. Might put a reddit post up with all the measurement photos at some point.

FW wwii type 1 FW 1922 jeans

Jacques Marie mage ooe yofukuten railroad chore lady white tee ewing dry goods bracelet duke mantee belt (my oldest one from him) word of mouth contest jeans 411S clinch natural latigo engineers

Have fun for the 22501xx scooby 😉

Fuck! 😉 NB: From this point forward all fades will be ‘Dad fades’ .

Rototo / TCB / Freewheelers / Canes / Warehouse... with a big thanks to another top bloke @Geeman for the sneakers

TCB released a new skater fit of their 50s jeans. They look pretty cool. Might be good for climbing as well https://tcbjeans.myshopify.com/products/baggy-50s-jeans-one-wash

wwii type 1 1922 jeans

Tender Co. x4 / Tezomeya / Duke / Russell + Family The elephant ear satchel is a huge hit !!!!

Long time no post.. I’ve had these jeans for five years now. Just done their first repair. LVC 1955 Cone denim. The repair is almost invisible 570 wears. 16 washes. First wash at 175 wears.

Love this 🤣

the arcuate and the patch look pretty decent, its the red tab, that within a 40s repro shouldn't feature a trademark "R", it is the short rise and the attachment of the flashers with plastic straps rather than cotton/poly thread which proofs the are being a fake pair

Since re-discovering vinyl, I had actually appreciate album as an art form more than just series of songs put together. Too expensive to buy "single" vinyl with two songs on them so I had to be more particular when adding 1 to my collections. It's been a great platform for discovering other forms of music also (Jazz, city pop, local Indonesian music, etc)

Down in Cornwall for the weekend: Tender, orSlow, Gustin

Rockets are getting a much needed wash so I’ve been in my TCB 50s and SC41001 instead Ebbets Field/J Press/TCB/Tony Lama Here is a better shot of the boots along with some bonus TCB roping and train tracks. They’re caribou Tony Lama gold label snip toes, probably from the 70-80s

@ALB - that was a really nice project - a good way to have those buckles, which you can’t buy from normal routes, fitted on to some enduring veg tan 3 years ago:

Here's the progress on mine, as yet still unwashed. The creases are becoming more defined, showing some fading. Nothing worth reporting on the backside 🫢...

One from the final ‘production’ run … and f-ck me it’s another one of those ACE buckles 😋 (note the humorous emoticon @Double 0 Soul), albeit I’ve swapped out their acrylic jewels for real turquoise I know this is isn’t my thread nor is it (was) my shop but I might do a little ‘class’ in belt making here - just something to let folk better understand some of the aspects, the shortcuts taken, the myths busted etc. Maybe it’ll keep the thread alive a little bit longer if folk want contribute or chip in some questions or queries?

@Lorcanyes, all LVCs with a red tab featured the R up to certain year, if I remember correctly it was around ten years ago, when they had started doing it right. and yes something is wrong with button, butt its more about the construction method of how the rivet/thorn-back part is attached to the top part, early LVC had two kind of stingers that had been plugged through the metal and had been bent holding the top, current versions hide the fixation. https://bears-tokyo.myshopify.com/products/levis-vintage-clothing-44501-0088-501xx-1944-model-501-jeans-organic-cottonのコピー

That good song is so good partially because it’s in the context of all the other not so good ones. That’s a lesson he’ll learn in time, hopefully. Ironically most of the generated playlists on streaming services are low pay commissioned filler crap by burnt out musicians who don’t even like what they’re recording for it, and every once in awhile is a tune by the artist(s) you’re there for.

Well for my sins I was on styleforum off and on 😅. Early 2010s I was more into Engineered Garments and the early Soloist collections, stuff like that. I had APCs and black LVC 1978 501 but wasn’t really a denim nerd. Late 2010s- weaker pound post-brexit I slowed down on proxying anything from Japan and less interested in clothes in general for a bit. In 2020 I got some TCB 50s and that ended up being a tipping point for me (should post some pics of them come to think of it). Lots more denim and repro stuff followed and I found myself lurking over here often and eventually felt like I might as well join in. Like, if I’m browsing anyway to see what people are saying about Slash Overalls or something then why not? It’s a more relaxed vibe here as well. styleforum still seems prone to odd nonsense and drama in the main threads. And like other people on here I'm of that age that grew up with forums and find the new social media landscape just weird.

Old but gold Motoratory originally hand dyed blue, true leather color slowly peeking through...

Perhaps I’ll make another wallet for the last placed contestant! 😆

wow….J47A-E?! It’s like they finally pulled their head out of their ass for a second

And he had worked with Samurai. (this has possibly been posted before somewhere on the site. But I hadn't been aware of it.) He had been fascinated by Samurai's original 15oz denim (I guess the otokogi). On a whim he asked Mr Nogami, whether he could make a jeans out of his denim and immediately feeling bad about asking such a question. The denim is of course a main component of a denim company. But to his astonishment Mr Nogami agreed. The results look pretty cool. It seems they were never for sale. Pictures from his blog:

postwash (2nd wash)

prewash

I didn't hesitate ....

Warehouse... new to me... with big thanks to our favourite Brummie @Geeman (closely followed by Benny from Crossroads, of course)

Damn! That’s even more of a quandary My next work jacket is a war model 506 with no flap, the only disadvantage will be the open pocket constantly filling up with wood shavings.. it’s the same with cuffs / turn ups.. they always collect sawdust. When I lived in the countryside.. i’d walk through meadows at this time of year and my cuffs would be full of seeds.. if it rained and my jeans got wet, they would germinate then die from lack of water.. I always fancied watering my turn ups and growing a mini, flowering meadow in the bottom of my jeans

Gardener's has re-released a 1943 model, all iron laurel buttons, no rust proofing, flannel pocket bags, 35 inch inseam in one wash state: https://store.spiraljeans.jp/en-us/products/gardener_1943xx-コピー and a type 2 adjacent jacket, squared pockets, single row stitched pleats, very tapered: https://store.spiraljeans.jp/en-us/products/gardener_579xx-コピー Both seem to use all lemon thread and same denim. They both look really slick and I'd hope to see them on the forum.

Snagged these 22501XX from @srudy last month, and by chance started wearing them on 5/01 day I love this denim and lucked out on the fit - they fit me as good as anything else ever has The cut is real good in contrast to the "22501" cut I had some years back - and at a tagged 34 they measure about 31" after a shrink That's barely 1" larger post shrink than the tagged 28 waist "22501" (a different cut but 6 tagged sizes smaller...) Not exactly an apples to apples comparison, but a WW2 501 jean under the same umbrella having such a massive disparity in sizing is... interesting!

@Double 0 Soul you ever have this happen to your 1947?

Track day... for him, not me 😉 Although I think I'm more knackered than Junior MJF9 with all the adrenaline...

My pair of 1937s. Denim is very irregular. Patch is way different from the fake one

I don’t wear these 1947 jeans as much anymore but they’re looking great. I’ve the last round of repairs on the fabric and stitching fixes, i leave them as only occasional wear so they don’t get too messed up.