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Bronson, Uniqlo, Levis & Cons

Wind blowing off the hairnet Gildan. Diy. Old and cutoff Pherrows 466. Boa

We headed into the a/c of the House of Fu eaterie earlier... too hot outside even at 6pm Lad in Pirates (SA) football top / Nike SB; Arl fella in Sun Surf, Nuu, Buckweat, McCoys daisy mae

Early eighties black flag 501's

USN denim and chambray!

Big post incoming! Long overdue, I desperately need to free up some closet space. Should've done this before our daughter arrived but better late than never. All prices include shipping within the US (unless otherwise listed), I'm open to offers / bundle discounts and international shipping (with a charge to cover shipping). Please dm me with any questions or offers. Only posting very basic front / back photos, but I can take more detailed photos of anything if you might be interested in. Rockets 0001XX, size 36, $SOLD. Ooe Yofukuten x S&S Saddle Pants, size 38. Original hem, washed once, only tried on. Just too slim for me these days. $300. Waist: 38 in. Front rise: 12.5 in. Back rise: 17.5 in. Thigh: 14 in. Knee: 9.5 in. Hem: 8.5 in. Inseam: 35 in. Warehouse S1001XX 25th anniversary, size 36. $200. Only tried on a couple of times. One of the rivets fell off in the initial wash, I had Roy replace it for me with an LSD rivet. Waist: 37 in. Front rise: 12.75 in Back rise: 18 in. Thigh: 13.75 in Knee: 10 in. Hem: 9 in. Inseam: 32 in. Warehouse Lot 1202 USN trousers, size 36. $100 Waist: 36 in. Front rise: 13 in. Back rise: 18 in. Thigh: 14.25 in. Knee: 11 in. Hem: 9.5 in. Inseam: 30 in. Warehouse 1001XX old stock, size 36. $50. Waist: 37 in. Front rise: 12 in. Back rise: 17 in. Thigh: 14 in. Knee: 10 in. Hem: 9 in. Inseam: 32 in. Boncoura XX, size 36. $50. Waist: 37 in. Front rise: 11 in. Back rise: 16 in. Thigh: 13.75 in. Knee: 10 in. Hem: 8.5 in. Inseam: 31 in. Mister Freedom Appaloosa, size XXL. $125. Shoulders: 19 in. Sleeve: 27 in. Chest: 23 in. Length: 30.5 in. Mister Freedom Midnight Appaloosa, size XXL. $125. Shoulders: 20 in. Sleeve: 27 in. Chest: 23.5 in. Length: 31 in. Butcher Products chambray, size 17. $SOLD The Rite Stuff chambray, size XXL. $125. Shoulders: 20.5 in. Sleeve: 26 in. Chest: 24.5 in. Length: 31.5 in. Matin pullover chambray (produced by YM Factory), size 16.5 (fits more like a large). $150. Shoulders: 20 in. Sleeve: 25.5 in. Chest: 24 in. Length: 31 in. Buzz Rickson chambray, size XL. Worn quite a lot, elbows have been patch with scraps of Roy denim. $SOLD Strike Gold loopwheeled zip hoodies, black and grey. Size XL. $SOLD Strike Gold loopwheeled indigo dyed crew. Size XL. $125. Shoulders: 23 in. Sleeve: 26 in. Chest: 24 in. Length: 25 in. Stevenson loopwheeled oatmeal crew. Size XL. $125. Freedom sleeve, so some estimating on sleeves / shoulders. Shoulders: 20 in. Sleeve: 27 in. Chest: 24 in. Length: 25 in. Samurai loopwheeled pullover hoodie, green. Size XL. $125. Shoulders: 23 in. Sleeve: 26 in. Chest: 24 in. Length: 25.5 in. Warehouse lot 450 hoodies, grey and eggplant. Size 44. $SOLD Velva Sheen made in Japan pullover hoodie, oatmeal. Size XL. $125. Shoulders: 21.5 in. Sleeve: 25 in. Chest: 24 in. Length: 27.5 in. Stevenson merino sweater, grey. Size XL. $150. Raglan, so shoulder / sleeve estimates. Shoulder: 20 in. Sleeve: 26 in. Chest: 23 in. Length: 27 in. 3sixteen indigo pocket tees. Size XL. $25 for both (plus shipping). Shoulder: 21 in. Sleeve: 7 in. Chest: 23 in. Length: 26.5 in. Bronson tee, grey. Size XXL. $25 (plus shipping). Shoulder: 20.5 in. Sleeve: 27 in. Chest: 24 in. Length: 26.5 in. Samurai loopwheeled tee, black. Size XL. $25 (plus shipping). Note that this one fits quite small. Shoulder: 21 in. Sleeve: 7 in. Chest: 23 in. Length: 25.5 in. Flat Head THC tees, size 46. $25 for grey (small holes near hem), $50 for black. Shoulder: 21 in. Sleeve: 8.5 in. Chest: 23.5 in. Length: 29 in. Mister Freedom Tricot tee. Size XL. $50. Shoulder: 19 in. Sleeve: 9 in. Chest: 21.5 in. Length: 30 in. PBJ Indigo and Natural Indigo dyed tees. Size 5. $50 for indigo, $75 for natural. Shoulder: 19.5 in. Sleeve: 8 in. Chest: 23 in. Length: 28 in. Stevenson short sleeve black indigo henley. Size XL. $75. Shoulder: 18 in. Sleeve 12 in. (includes cuff) Chest: 22.5 in. Length: 28 in. Alden black shell cap toe boots, size 11.5. These need a little love but the wear is pretty minimal. Last is just a bit too narrow for me. Includes box, which is slightly broken on one side. $500. Rolling Dub Trio Coupen, black Italian horse hide. Size 12 (these run large). $400.

Papa Nui, carhartt, Fullcount, vans

I suppose it was Simo's blood sweat and tears that caused the rust that I got on that first soak!

Keep going @PrettyBoyTony. Once the 50s get past that initial slow fading and start to pop, they look like totally different jeans. Mine are just getting there after almost a year. I've also started working in the coffee industry again, and occasionally get behind the bar, which is giving it some solid wear and tear and dirt. I also just picked up a new pair of both 50s and 60s with the indigo tab a few weeks ago, too. Excited to start the process over again once my current pairs get a bit more trashed.

I wonder if the BOT pairs are made with AI denim?

Sounds good, Double O. I'd like to see the pics and dimensions. In the meantime I've been poking around and found some other brands that do that style nicely. Akira, and Native Son.

Guys.. it's less to do with the water and more to do with the salt content in your sweat, the spices in the foods you eat and where your fingers and body have left sweat / salt deposits on the ferrous. A chap i used to work with.. all of his carbon steel carving tools were black.. mine are all silver.. one day, i was struggling to develop a shape i couldn't visualise.. he said pass me your gouge.. i handed it to him and he took it by the blade, he started to carve out the shape and handed it back.. the next day, his fingerprints were rusted into the steel.. i was pissed but 30yrs after his death, i still have his fingerprints rusted into my carving tool which i find quite poignant.

Re: rust

Wash no 4 (by hand) and drying in the heat & brilliant Sun. Still wet here.

🎵 Welcome to the house of fu Now I've come of age Welcome to the lion's den 🎵

I got the TCB 50s in 34 and they're quite tight. 36 would have been better. Most other TCB I have are 36 and fit well. I wear the Resolute 710 in 36. So 36 should fit you well, I think. They're very cool jeans. But of course they're a 60s cut, so the leg opening is smaller than 40s and 50s. It's strange,how that changes. But while I found the 710s a few years ago quite normal or even a bit wide, now they feel quite narrow to me.

@okimoto thx! They are totally versatile. At least for me, if you wear blue jeans and white/neutral shoes the top can be any colour. If my shoes are coloured as well I find it harder to match my tops

The rust on mine is very recent. And I’m guessing might even rub off. It’s pretty superficial (like me! )

Some background information of the Real McCoys and who was involved and is stil active in the Japanese denim world https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ザ・リアルマッコイズ

Sugarcane 1945 - Merz - Duke - WMJ - Vans

Belafonte / canes / lone wolf

Funny how we get used to fits. Wearing skinny jeans for so long when I went back to 501s they felt huge at the hem despite only being 8inch opening. Now 501s feel like slim jeans after a couple of years of looser fits

36x33 One-wash Waist: 34" Front rise: 11" Back rise: 15" Thighs: 13" Knee: 8.6" Leg opening: 7.9" Inseam: 31.5 After 1st wash Waist: 34.5" Inseam: 30.5"

^ I still regret not going in on the later run of those that they did in the 01 cut for S&S

Lovely items on sale @Broark! I love those saddle pants but unfortunately not in my size 😭

I’ve got about 12 months still to wait on a BoT 506xx 💀

I think a ~6 month lead time is fairly reasonable, but 1.5 years on the other hand is a little much. I remember when I got my BoT and it only took ~3 month. Good to know, thanks! Yeah those were definitely a bit over the top, but the Neat Style offering is much more tasteful. Might try out a pair.

Only ordered/preordered from them via proxy which is what he prefers. Yeah the ‘error edition’ Little Hand did for Lua were really too much for me, but the Neat Style model looks promising.

@okimoto I had the same pair a few yrs ago. eventhiugh I never think about stuff like that, but @beautiful_FrEaK explained it well. on the other hand if it’s versatile for you…. i want some more color in my clothing. started with this red pair looking for primary color t shirts and sweats. I mostly see the faded soft tones.

Mepse has a new 47 model (early 50s) on offer: https://mepse.base.shop/items/all But his releases are also getting way more expensive with each release

Thanks for the link @Lorcan Agree @Broark But delivery from Jan 2026 for lil hands and 1.5 yrs wait for a BOT '37 pair!! CSF vibes

Really great stuff @beautiful_FrEaK @smoothsailor b_F, the natural / gum vans look nice with your outfit. Do you think they would be a versatile neutral pair that could go with many outfits?

A big part of why TFH was so popular ~15 years ago is that back then, there was a lot less variety on the specialty denim market. TFH's denim was closely associated with dramatic fading, and pretty unique in how dark it was - Eternal was the only brand with a similar vibe. That was before the rise of retailers like Okayama Denim or Denimio that catered to the tastes of the Reddit/Instagram crowd and subsequent rise in over-engineered denim with highly exaggerated texture and color, and before the creation of most southeast Asian brands catering to a similar very heavy and abrasive sort of fabric. TFH had a reputation for being the denim that led to the Sickest Fades. Flat Head's denim has never stopped being great, but over time it came to occupy a sort of middle space in between the traditional/heritage style denim represented by Warehouse, Full Count, Denime, TCB, (most) Sugar Cane, etc. and heavily engineered denim of PBJ, Samurai, Oni, Iron Heart, and so on. The people wanting extreme fades gravitated toward more extreme denim, and those seeking more traditional jeans were less interested in brands like TFH as well. Finally, changing tastes in the community in terms of styling meant that TFH's arcuates/branding/etc. that had once looked cool to the streetwear crowd, were again either too much for traditionalists, or not enough for extreme fans. I think TFH could have stayed popular if they had followed the lead of other third and fourth-wave Japanese brands in catering to the more extreme tastes of international fans, but I have a pretty low opinion of 29 oz hyper-slub rainbow weft denim so I don't think this would have been worth it. I admire TFH for sticking to their guns and taking a generally more reserved approach to their fabric development than most brands. And in my opinion, the mid-late 2000s fabrics represented the height of pushing the boundaries of selvedge denim - I don't think modern gimmicky fabrics have surpassed TFH's 14.5 oz, Samurai's 15 oz Otokogi or 17 oz denim, PBJ's XX-011 or XX-005 denim, and so on. Along the way they made some missteps like with the ultrasuede stuff, but I think the impact of this on their popularity was inconsequential; this hardly made it outside of Japan, Pronto is the only retailer I can recall which carried jeans featuring those arcs, and the flashier back pocket designs generally played better in the Thai market back then anyway. I do think that dialing back the rockabilly look and going for a broader vintage basics aesthetic the last few years has worked well for them. Fits are also worth mentioning, TFH had trouble keeping on top of the whims of the international denim community. They had a relaxed tapered fit, the 3012, all the way back in 2013 but the timing was off; it was a few years too early, and seemed to flop. It had already been canceled by the time these fits were all the rage in the latter end of the 2010s. This has largely been resolved though and they have a pretty good lineup of fits at this point. I'm daily driving my 3003xx jeans and 6002W denim jacket, both old stock I got off Japanese auction sites. The 3003xx has to be my favorite fit I've ever worn, the leg is about the same as my 3005s but these jeans have a noticeably longer rise which leads to a more comfortable, better looking pair. And of course the painted arcs and red tab are very cool and quite rare at this point. I'll probably share some updates on those around the end of summer.

It’s a good page isn’t it!

That would be £800 with border charges applied, between £500 and £600 without. If president man-baby gets his way, you too could experience these import joys.. I do think they're worth it though @CSL ... the finish and level of craftsmanship is superb, they still feel brand new. The difference between these and factory produced acetate frames is like night and day.. the only thing i have which comes anywhere close is my c1960 MiA Rayban Caribbean but even those are not in the same ballpark.. not even close! i'll post up some photos and dimensions over the weekend.

Hard to imagine that we still have 12 months left! Here's some post wash photos of my pair, probably going to start rotating other pairs in so these don't get too washed out before the end of the contest.

Still 12 months to go

Life still evolving around pushing the work on the house over the finishing line. With the temperature I can just about manage jean shorts. Tender Co. shirt, Last & Loom shorts

RDR3 coming soon...

Started wearing these 03s more consistently. These are coming along nicely. Buttons are starting to show some rust. Pocket bags have lightening up a bit.

Scored a Necchi BU Mira off FB marketplace for $50 the other day. Needs some cleaning but I'm excited to get it running. Been hunting for a Necchi for over a year now and finally came across one that wasn't some ridiculous price or in another state.

Bumping this again, brand new WH Lot 1002 size 34 + gently worn YM Factory Jumper size 42 both open to reasonable offers Super bundle deal if someone wants to take both!

Not quite Resolute but still Hayashi-san: Far East Manufacturing will producing additional items. Jackets, pants https://www.instagram.com/p/DK_wkYWTfqA/ edit: The Baker pants look nice

Morrissey

714 for the 15th anniversary. Pre-ordered mid-2024, received a few weeks back and immediately stashed:

Samurai s5000 21oz before i sold them on ebay

Flat Head 3005XXX. Worn since August 2018. I lost track of wear time, but I think they’re around 20 months of actual wear. Easily my most worn jeans ever, and washed countless times. I wore these jeans the most over the past summer. I stopped cuffing them and wearing a wallet in the back pocket in this same time. Still tons of life left in these. The hem, knees, and rear end/back rise seam all need or will soon need repairs. The jeans were previously repaired at Indigo Proof in 2020 or so, where the front pocket openings were expanded, the pocket bags replaced with deeper ones, back pocket stitching repaired, and cuff tears repaired. It's been quite impressive that I managed to wear these for so long without the knees blowing out, though they're pretty close now.