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Some pics of my 46 and 45

Back in uniform. Freewheelers, Two Moons, Freshly washed WMJ, Tender

Some Japanese made Japanese denim 1937 501s. New last Nov. A couple of cold soaks and a lot of wear. 36/34

Love those Tender boots ATWM. Papa Nui x Major's Tailor cap / Freewheelers 1922 and tee / MASH belt / Sugar Cane 1946 / Nicks boots

Bump Denime 10th Anniversary 1937s... tip off from my pal @beautiful_FrEaK... I need to wear these more...

Me: Stepladder Ranch / The Vanishing West / Tezomeya / Duke / Word of Mouth / The Flat Head Dog: The Real McCoy’s

WoM

Heres my 1953 LVC type II at about 8 months. still raw. Size XL. Marked 44 on the label. The Japanese denim is very similar to the fuzzy denim like my 1955 501 cone. The color and texture are very close to the 50s LVC Cone denim. I think Levis still has XXL (48) also.

American Optical, Sugar Cane, RRL, Coronado Leather, LVC, Padmore & Barnes

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

Im looking at an album as a body of work by that artist, of course not every track will be a banger but it’s a capsule from that era, a piece of tangible art, it looks beautiful, it sounds beautiful, the lingo, the expression the lyrics the musicianship all reflect thoughts and feelings which will inevitably change over time, to not appreciate it as a body of work is like going to a Picasso exhibition to see Guernica, and walking past the rest of the filler hanging on the walls.. But yes, most albums do suck but a lot of them only suck in comparison, when you have very few records, very few of your records suck, when you have 1000s most of them suck.. like you say, “7 or 8 of those tracks are filler” but you only consider them to be ‘filler’ when you have 1000s of better tracks at your disposal. I'd grown up in an era of the £16 CD, this was when i was earning less than £100/wk so my CD collection had to be very carefully considered, i only bought music from artists who i aligned myself with and even then.. i'd have to save up to buy their album .. the period following / when i had a larger disposable income coincided with the era of 2x CDs for £5 from Fopp so every Saturday i would rummage around Fopp for bargain CDs.. I'd come away with something like a random Lee Perry album and The Northern Soul of Philadelphia for instance.. was this because I aligned myself with these artists? No of course not.. they were 2x for a fiver I've since reduced my CD collection down from around 2000 to around 350, it was 300 but i've bought more to fill gaps.. ..but surely the beauty still exists in the lesser? .. like the aural pain of Black Angel's Death Song .. or to quote De la Soul.. "Sometimes the body needs to feel stressed to appreciate the joy"

Post polish RW merchants I got in 2017.

Butcher Products top At Last & Co Lot. 161 (looking slimmer than IRL in this shot) Carmina wingtips

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

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

I resonate with this strongly. In the last 5 yrs or so I’ve been getting really picky about what records I buy. I don’t really want to buy an album if I only like one song. So it better be really good, or I’ll seek out a compilation or better yet 45 single since they take up less space. Bonus is the 45s (styrene excepted) generally sound better than the same song from an LP. Yeah, albums give that different listening experience that can be nice. I’ve ended up with a significant collection of singles as Soul is my favorite genre. Too many cuts that were only ever available as a single. Lately, I’ve been enjoying sticking to what I can find locally or when traveling rather than buying records online. Kind of a fun limitation that rewards patience with serendipity. I’ll counter @Double 0 Soul by saying that most albums suck. Or to word differently, it’s a small percentage of albums that deliver a great front to back listening experience. I think albums are worth listening to front to back at least once, but I’m not going to force myself to listen to 7 or 8 filler tracks when I just want to hear the best 2 or 3 off the album. The beauty of truly great albums is the nuance that is revealed with multiple listens over multiple years. “De la Soul is Dead” is one of those albums for me.

Well, obviously I agree…!

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

@reubensangwich liking your fit pics !

Congratulations @UkeNo

That's some great looking vertical streaking there.

j28-e or j1a-e is what we're looking for

SP62 are coming soon. They are pretty close to sp28

The quality is, as expected, very good too. On a par with Tart Japan and similar. I only sold them on as they were a bit too wide for my face which I knew was a risk when I ordered. I guess we tend to find a brand that works for us and for me that’s Tart. Friendly staff on the emails I had with them too.

I got a crummy turntable for Christmas in 2019 and the first few months of 2020, I bought some vinyl records and enjoyed shopping for them. But my interested kind of fizzled out after that. I still have my records and turntable, but don't use them much. I figure at some point I'll really get into it and throw some cash at a good turntable/speaker setup. I love the idea of intentionally sitting down and listening to music but at this stage of life with a couple of tiny children running around, it's not exactly ideal circumstances for that kind of thing. I'm much less into music, in general, than I used to be. Although recently, I found a couple of new artists in the dream pop/indie rock genre that's dominated my listening for over a decade new - Darksoft, Sea Lemon, and Yumi Zouma being a few new discoveries I've been listening to frequently these days. Perfect tunes for wistful cruising around in my 40 year-old car with the windows rolled down.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tF7x-1oHhVffz1-poCy5MbPvR0PTzCEq

Everybody has 14 months time to do the same

I can always help locally here in Japan.

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 😣

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.

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?

Don't worry, Duke's wallet is now back in its box for safe keeping

Have fun for the 22501xx scooby 😉

FW wwii type 1 FW 1922 jeans

Post-wash (maybe no. 4?) The way these are fading is funny. I agree with the building consensus that they seem to have shed a lot of indigo right at the start and then slowed down to a much more normal rate, which I appreciate. That said, something’s still different. Almost all of my slimmer-fitting jeans end up with pretty much the same pattern of whiskers, and these still have very little to speak of in that department. Meanwhile, the outer-most yarns covering the hidden rivets are already wearing through (one of my favorite bits of aging on any jeans), which usually takes years for me. Maybe it’s the jeans, or maybe my lifestyle has just changed in the past year in more ways than I’ve noticed. I'll be really interested to see where they end up. Two issues showing up so far, one very minor and one less so: The yoke seam wasn’t folded great during construction (or maybe there just wasn’t quite enough allowance), and it’s opening and fraying a bit near the right outseam; and and one of the hidden rivets has come partially undone. Rivet failures have always been a real pet peeve of mine, since they’re supposed to be the last thing holding the jeans together, and a hidden rivet failure is all the more frustrating since it’s not one that’s straightforward to replace at home. Not a huge deal, in the end—it’s not like the pocket’s going to be falling off anytime soon—but it does feel like a shame.

i miss everyone ❤️ CE number nine shirt polo jacket needles grandpa's hat la apparel sweat porter bag needles

Phigvel a few washes

Nicked this from Workwearyears on lg - l'm positive this is an early Lee 101J from the 30s or early 40s judging by the shape of the front pocket and some other details.

Some years ago in my favorite true religion jeans. I memissed this so much 😢🥺

Sorry, more of the jacket... vs Sugar Cane s1945 Neat Style armhole seems cut a bit tighter / less straight which is maybe what has been making me question sizing choice...

Some pics of my Neat Style Kiwami WWII jeans and Neat Style x Denim Bridge. Jeans are the 'irregular' model with destroyed patch, wonky red tab and rusted top button which are supposed to be like B-stock sitting in a warehouse for 80 years lol. I got them as they were a pair in stock and the regular Kiwami WWII has long lead time. I kinda thought I'd hate the destroyed patch but it doesn't bother me in the end. Denim is quite streaky but less hairy and stubby than say, Sugar Cane S1943. Denim used for Kiwami WWII and the Denim Bridge models very similar but maybe different colour (notwithstanding wear washing making colour difference). Stitching character is quite different with the Denim Bridge models however (thicker more yellow thread, different quirks). Next to Sugar Cane S1943 and 1946. Neat Style back pockets a touch smaller which I don't like. Neat Style sizing is small so this is tag size 34 vs Sugar Cane size 32.

The 1937 jeans recently became available. 13.5OZ XX DENIM, One Wash For their construction the following sewing machines have been used: 本縫い SINGER 31-20 Adler 167 二本針本縫い Durkop 249 二本針巻き縫い Unionspecial35800DQ 1本針チェーン Unionspecial 11500 裾上げ Unionspecial 11500G オーバーロック Unionspecial 39500 ボタンホール SINGER 99W ベルトループ Unionspecial 6900H バータック SINGER 69-8 They have been made for Cushman by rebuilt. There is also a type 1 jacket coming up. It looks like it will also be made by rebuilt.