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FW shirt & pants, Tender belt, RDT boots The FW diamond cracker shirt has some of the most beautiful pearl buttons seen anywhere.

Please excuse the double posting. Went for an impromptu bike ride yesterday since I finished work on the bathroom earlier than anticipated. Mtb trails are closed so I rode over to the metropark about 3 miles from my house and pedaled around there. Pretty nice spot, and the ride through the neighborhood was nice too to be able to really take in all the cute houses.

The Vanishing West / Tezomeya / Roy / Russell

your reminder that the denim pullover is the piece you shouldn’t have slept on. This is just getting so damn good.

As seen above, we spent the past week up at a friend’s cabin on a dammed lake in the mid-Sierra, fed by the south fork of the Stanislaus River. More on that later. As a little sneak peek, here are some shots from a lovely morning hike that I took on Friday, feat. contest jeans, Great Lakes hat + shirt, JK boots. The original idea was to make my way up to the peak of nearby mountain, center background in this shot: The approach to the ridge was scrambly, but before too long I hit a trail that seemed to be going in the right direction. Left the trail again before too long to follow the sound of water, which turned out to be (I think) the nearby Herring Creek Climbed back uphill to the path through a couple hundred feet of chest-high bramble… …and made my way to a spectacular vista point From this last perspective, the peak I was planning on hiking up is to the far left. The gorge to the right feeds the inlet to the lake, seen above. It’s straightforward to hike from the lake part way up the gorge, up to around the large pool seen near the bottom right of the gorge photo. In the past, I’ve made my way up far enough to see the first of the heavily wooded sections (slightly right of center), but have never managed to get there from below because of how steep the walls get to either side of the river. Looking down from above, it seemed like it might be plausible to work my way down to the wooded section by following the shoulder of the ridge (a.k.a. the Large Granite Slab). This seemed to align much more closely with my interests than waking the rest of the way up the mountain, so I scrapped the original plan and plotted a rough course into the gorge. This ^ was the final approach, around 4–500 vertical ft. down a ~80% incline slab of fully exposed granite. Intimidating, but Komperdell, JK, and lots of experience off trail in the Sierra were on my side. The oasis at the bottom was well worth the anxiety at the top. Some of the absolute prettiest water features I’ve ever seen. Stopped for lunch and a beer (ca. 10 am…time runs different in the mountains) and made my way back down to known territory.

It’s prime time for wildflowers in the mid-Sierra Nevada, and I’ve gone with a quantity over quality approach to photography Yarrow, lupine, pacific irises, columbine, mariposa lilies, fairies’ lanterns, shooting stars, Indian paintbrush, thimble berry, wild roses…what else can you spot?

This being my first time drywalling, I have been pretty pleased with myself. Mud is messy as hell though. Spent a few hours yesterday prefilling and then a few hours today taping. Also my brother got me a cast iron skillet as a housewarming gift a few weeks ago. Never cooked with cast iron before and I get the hype. Here's a quick curry I made in it last night.

Sugarcane Indigo Madras Shirt • Engineered Garments

Offspring was wearing his vintage England shirt when we hit the courts this morning.. with all of David Beckham's magnificent work marketing alchohol to children you'd think the Royal family would thank him somehow?.. Don't get me started on that other wanker Peter Crouch! .. gotta love the ethics of multi-millionaire footballers Having lost 6-4 6-4.. I went for a bike ride.. Burbage Spring Watch was on location here last week.. Chris Packham and Bee'aaave Michaela! ..check this crazy tree out, the branch has grown to the ground creating roots then grown into a conjoined tree. i used to do this with cacti.. using rooting compound to graft I bet it's bleak living here in the winter I've never been up here before.. ..who knows what this is? Found myself on i think.. The Steel Cotton Trail It got rocky ..then narrow ..i went down a hill, not really knowing where i was or where i was going.. and like all hills in Sheffield, the more fun they are to ride down the more painfull they are to ride back up.. I popped out at Strawberry Lee Lane, asked a runner for directions.. then headed back up the hill through Blackamore ..then home

Freewheelers Tweakers Racing hat. wwii type 1 601RB

Warehouse and Cushman

and post 4th wash numbers in cm for a 611 in size 40 (hemmed to post-wash 80cm): machine washed 40c, spun 1400, line dry) w 90 dried/stretched to 94 in an hour of wearing (pretty mobile: needless info: i wear em cinched at around 91, not needed braces yet) fr 30.5 br 44.5 thigh 35 l 77 lo 24 more crinkly dried deets plus low light bonus shot

About 14.5 months in the homemade pair and still loving them. Been itching for an excuse to make another pair but these are still kicking real well other than the inseam needing some repairs at the crotch.

is it just me or is the 44-45 s506xx jacket cut significantly longer than the others?(mainly the 46-47 506xx) great combo with the rb though

Those are so awesome, great fading and nice to see they’re still holding up so well!!

Took my kid suit shopping today.. due to my.. let's say 'buying habbits' .. i was expecting a £600-800 touch, i was amazed how cheap a reasonable quality suit is.. Calvin Klein silk tie aside, all this came to less than £300 from Next.. Having never owned a suit myself, at 15.. he's allready a more rounded human being I'm just cooking some Piri-Piri chicken on the old Petromax None of these cats are ours.. they're Lenny's new friends from across the road ..all the gang in our living room SC-47s Chucked some clover and a handfull of wildflower seeds down this year

Freewheelers Tweakers Racing hat. Freewheelers wwii type 1 Freewheelers 601RB Nicks Palouse cowboy boots

For the 50 year anniversary of pants shop avenue together with SDA they released a pair based on the SD-101 but with a ca. 1.5cm higher front rise and apparently a slightly rougher 15oz denim, the second edition of the Kotaro jeans. https://pants-shop-avenue.com/item/AVENUE-050/

I used to have a Mitsubishi too but it was stolen so I threw the key fobs away. I didn’t think they were that nice.

Envious of you lot that can wear denim jackets in June! These spent about 8 hours in the Texas sun (chilly day here, only 91 F / ~32 C) and they're bone dry now. Starting to see a little marbling pop up. They'll go back on the legs tomorrow.

WoM 5150 / Freewheelers / Warehouse / @Duke Mantee / Converse

Just reorganizing all my FW ephemera, they had largely been left disorganized but loosely grouped by sub label. Largest count of the lot are the Power Wear items (tees, sweats, etc.) followed by Union Special and Great Lakes. Didn't have the wherewithal to get a total count, but maybe one day. I did take note that my oldest item is from 2013.

Moto old baggy. Almost 4 years.

This is veering pretty far off the Sugar Cane topic, but you might find this article interesting. It wouldn't hurt to contact Original Madras Trading Company for a length of their cloth. They are probably the source for most of the fabrics in your links. @indigoeagle O'Connell's is one of the last remaining major independent shops for American trad clothing. Their knitwear is great, especially their Shetlands which I believe are made by Laurence Odie and are really heavy and full of lanolin scent. I would have some myself but I've struggled to get the sleeve length that I need in a reasonable chest size so the ones that I own are from elsewhere

Nope. I'll buy used denim on occasion. But processed, no. Idk about "cheating" - I don't like how it wears differently than on ones body and I don't like the fact that it's usually a whole bucket (extra) of environmental ick just to make it look worse than it would. Call me ridiculous but it's enough for me that if a brand offers a used wash it usually starts to sour me on the whole brand a little bit.

I wouldn’t buy them but I don’t think it’s ‘cheating’ unless you’re trying to sneakily use them in a contest and pass off the ‘wear’ as your own. Wearing denim in general isn’t a competitive thing so the idea of ‘cheating’ doesn’t make sense, it’s about what you like or don’t like.

Trying my best to get that @Double 0 Soul fades

^ damn. This probably makes no sense since I’ve internalized $250 being worth it for a pair of jeans sometimes, and more even for jackets - but I can’t make that jump with a whole lot else. Those are some pricey shirts! I’d be checking my local thrift store first… how value is so subjective.

Neat Style x Denim Bridge WWII / Equus / Sugar Cane 1942 / Nicks Trying uncuffed with the 42s for a change of pace

Well Maynard, funny you say that… trying to get that funky (platonic) foursome together was a proper nightmare, I tell thee… and it wasn’t for the want of trying. Firstly, the ladies couldn’t agree on where to eat. Traceeeeeey / Julie / Debs can only slurp soup through a straw, until she gets her new false choppers. Mavis, bizarrely, is a Leicester City fan and kept quoting Jamie Vardy ‘I don’t like foreign food so I just stick to pizza and chinese'... and, to top it all, Neal was pinging me saying ‘I’m wearing my M41001 and CSF as I found them so you’ll have to wear Freewheelers otherwise we’ll look daft'... hard to believe... I know... it sounds like I'm making it all up...

Got lucky a couple weeks ago and found this CR07. It was listed without measurements on mercari, but I couldn't pass it up; the first and only one I've seen in months of regular searching, and it's got almost no wear to boot.

Jeez.. Martin, Don't! .. you're triggering my PTSD.. check this mad shit out, when we used to live out in the sticks, Sarah would buy our daily food from M&S (don't tell @Geeman but she used to work there doing Visual Merchandising.. window displays and such so we used to get staff discount giving us 20% off so we could eat fancy food from M&S for the same price as Tesco food.. hence my long and much derided association with Marks & Spencer.. .. is it all coming together now G? At the weekend, i would drive to a huge out of town Asda or Morrison's for all the shit she couldn't carry.. the best part was the boy and i could stuff our faces on the 'cheese on a stick' freebies at the deli counter.. the second best part was their build your own pizza.. when the kid was little and Sarah was on very extended maternity leave.. we would go on adventures in the woods on Sunday morning, a couple of pints at the country pub, walk back home and he would have an afternoon nap while Sarah cooked Sunday lunch.. when he got to school age, we'd be out in the Peak District and Sarah would stay home, wash her hair and catch up on shit she'd missed in the week being a busy working mum.. but because i've never paid much attention to the time.. by the time we got home Sunday dinner was often ruined so one day she said "fuck it!.. if you two can't come home on time.. i'm not doing Sunday dinner again" so rather than binning off the Peaks we reverted to pizzas on Sunday evening which we could just bang in the oven.. we still have Sunday pizzas now.. I digress.. since i've been riding to work, i can't pick up a weekly shop so we have it delivered but you can't get 'make your own pizzas' delivered so i've been trying to find somewhere that makes them.. We only have a M&S Foods or a Waitrose nearby and neither do.. anywho, late last year, my mum asked me to go to Morrison's and get her 6x bottles of wine which were on offer.. i noticed they did 'make your own pizzas' so i drove there again the following week.. the pizzas were fucking great, family loved them and asked if i could get these again next week.. so i did, it was the same woman who served me but she was uncomfortably flirtatious.. call me shallow but if she was attractive, i'd feel flattered.. but she doesn't even have a full set of teeth.. i was polite as per.. but the next week, she started making lewd innuendos.. like fking Les Dawson.. then she said "Ooo i like the way that you talk and everything" wft! ..maybe because i don't sound like i'm from the fucking arse-end of Sheffield .. i made a point of saying "the mushroom one is for my wife" "the spicy chicken is for my kid".. ..i told the family that it was freaking me out and i couldn't bear to go back.. they just laughed and said "i needed to man up".. last week i asked for a pizza and she said "i thought you'd come in to ask me out" my god, can't a sexy denim-head go buy pizzas without being perved over by a toothless woman? ..after i had a mini-freakout when i got lost in Ikea, just having to go to unfamiliar places is really triggering for my anxiety so knowing i have to go get pizzas on Saturday and deal with this shit is making me feel anxious from Thursday onwards..

Even the nerdiest of nerdy denim-nerds never said.. "Ooh! .. i like your jeans.. and i can tell based on your build that you usually wear a size 32" but on very close inspection of the patch.. it quite rightly says 34" so you've obviously sized up due to the manufacturers reproducing a sizing quirk" Never happened.. never will, just sell me jeans that f'kin fit.. ffs! It's not even difficult.. make the jeans.. make the intentional mistakes if you will.. but when they're made, just measure them up before sewing on the appropriate patch.. jeez?!

So the SCSC '42 jeans landed... and post-wash the w34 were snugger than I'd hoped. Looking at other pairs, mine came up on the smaller end of the spectrum. The target was a reasonably voluminous pair, with a big enough waist to allow some decent cinching. In fact, I liked the pre-wash fit better than post wash... ...so, stuck in the worm hole, I then got a w36... and they meet the original brief... I like 'em (many won't) cinched up with no belt. The w34 has the bells and whistles... both w34 and w36 have been hemmed with original cotton from Toyo... w34 before and after washing w36 before and after washing

This page is out of control. Excellent stuff everyone. My dad and I got the chance to embarrass each other last week at my local hole in the wall where my friends/castmates run a weekly jam. Black and white spy shots by my platonic gal pal Melissa. Embroidered Denim vest 90s Cash Rob Kap belt buckle Mister Freedom Outlaw Dad-ception. He sang 50 year old originals. I sang him Paul Simon's Kodachrome.

Three-wash measurements: Waist / 78.0 cm / 30.71 inches Front rise / 29.0 cm / 11.42 inches Back rise / 39.0 cm / 15.35 inches Thigh / 31.5 cm / 12.40 inches Knee / 25.0 cm / 9.84 inches Hem / 22.0 cm / 8.66 inches Inseam / 73.0 cm / 28.74 inches See I run the same washing program as bartles.

Another pair for sale here @redragon so probably not all that rare. https://zenmarket.jp/mercariproduct.aspx?itemCode=ewjEkW4R2oxriNhq8tKgJU It's just a case that nobody has noticed the M40313 product code and by doing so has put them into the "1991-2003" catagory of SC production.

Re marbling: yes it has a tendency to marble quite easily when machine washed. But not as bad as the denim from the Denim Bridge contest. Last day at the beach. Cold and windy

Thanks Martin, they're a different pair to the Miura 46s / leaning more towards a war model. @redragon they're basically a pair of SC41947 with an M-Series product code.. protruding back pocket stitch seems to be the only real difference.. Timeline / 25yrs old does track.. the SC47s were released in 2003 so would have been in production in 2001 + 2002 .. possibly conceived in 2000, they could be sample pairs rebranded for Hinoya Anniversary.. my only cause for question would be the lack of arcs which were used liberally on most early 2000 SC repros.. but it doesn't cause me to doubt that they are what your friend thinks they are.. bearing in mind, the previous generation or SC jeans didn't have arcs either. It's a really nice find!

That back pocket stitch detail could be based upon this pair, dating from 1942-46 (#19, p94 in The 501XX book).

You might be better off checking John Simons at that point or even Drake's at the UK pricing. My understanding is that all of them source fabrics from the same mills so there is a lot of overlap, especially between the Press and Drakes offerings this year. Unfortunately, I don't think that they have anything that quite matches that olive/red color

@Double 0 Soul Funny you should mention that particular feature as l've always noticed that FW (and some other more vintage repro brands) put that detail on the back pocket but only on one side, for obvious reasons, but it always irked me as l have truly never seen that detail on vintage levis. Maybe he odd pair but l don't remember it at all so never really sat well with me. I always remove that bit of stitching from my repros and will do so again with my FW'42s before wearing them.

Ah.. ok 🤔.. so pinkline in the year 2000 and V stitch to the top of the waistband, that's unusual.. Peekaboo ID a'la SC-47s but the back pocket stitch resembles the M41001.. Can you see this^ protruding pocket stitch @Dr_Heech ? .. it's used for the Sugarcane M41001 late 40s / early 50s repros .. you don't see it on SC-47s but you do see it on FW-47s albeit protruding less.. off the top of my head, i don't recall seeing it on late 40s - early 50s Levi's but you would know better then i? @redragon does the waistband stitch continue over the fly at 90° like this ? ..or does it stop at the waistband ?

@Double 0 Soul Details:

Couple recent fits. Vintage denim vest with embroidery Destroyed 40s bandana 1990s The Specials tee 501 STF 60s FRYE boots Mister Freedom Vietnam tee Target Wide Leg selvedge denim FRYE

Ooe x One Ear Brand / Slash Overalls / Neat Style / Nicks

Kapital Sassafras & PostO'all 45R A.S.P

Thank you, I'll make sure to post pictures once it's furnished in a couple months! We got lucky finding a place $75,000 less than our budget which feels feels great.

(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.