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Vintage bandanna/ Triumph/ West Ride heavy/ birks

Jelado S301XX starting to fade

Secretly imported and hidden from the wife....

Sugar Cane 1945 / Muji / Joe McCoy / Sugar Cane 1942 / Nicks

Viberg ball cap, My Epic band tee, Hollows belt, Flat Head 3003xx, 70s Chucks.

I look forward to meeting all your spouses and saying "I've heard so much about you"

Happened to be wearing my edgiest t shirt myself yesterday. Mostly indoor house day because wildfire smoke from Canada made the outdoors not too great. pants are de bonne facture linen denim trousers, which I quite enjoy. don’t mind the slippers.

he's helping them with a new concept of airport stores where all the snacks, magazines and neck pillows are preorder only but you'll never receive them.

oh wow he also comes right out and namedrops WHranch.

@Broark just from people I’ve met and myself not getting my last two pairs I ordered. He took thousands. I think he was charging $400-$700 per pair. $700 was the rush order…….. yea I saw he finally took down is IG. I hear he works for Tecovas Boots now. Some of his last posts he was going really hard for the Dwight yoakam and top gun clothing which was weird to me. A real shame because he really was making some of the best jeans I’ve ever handled, but his reputation caught up to him and I think everyone just hates him now. Hahaha

@ATWM this is the 1922 506xx you're referring to, correct? The rivets were hammered down by FW on this model.

Assuming we still have them of course

Hard-wearing with generous thighs is generally what I look for

I read recently about a German entertainer/TV&radio guy. He had passed away in his 80s. He had his own shows on TV and radio for decades and was quite popular and well liked. Apparently in the 80s or so he had a tough time taking drugs and frequenting brothes and also debt. Despite making good money apparently he was in debt for around DM 700,000 (in today's money probably EUR 1m) or so. Instead of filing for personal bankruptcy and having the debt extinguished after five years or so (in which time you only receive the bare minimum to live from your income) he paid back everything over many years once he got sober again. Quite remarkable, especially compared to today with scams and fraud in many places.

Excellence in an art or craft and running a business are two separate skills. Rarely does the same person exemplify both to a high degree. Sort of sucks that it needs to be the case so often, especially these days, but it's not an excuse for ripping people off. Even worse is that better sellers/businesspeople/con men tend to succeed more than the ones who are excellent in craft. Rewards go to the wrong places.

He’s been in some Yt clips of clothes he made for them. The clothes look like crap to me. Haha

This is the slogan I need printed on a T-shirt TBH

Interesting, I know some people that work there.

I wonder what this scam artist is up to these days. Came across my mind a few weeks back, website was still up but his posts on social media had been limited. Checked just now and his website has expired. Curious how much in total he stole from folks.

trading an old jacket to Bandit for these. older pair of WH ranch made with Broken Twill

Superwide, extra heavy

Bell bottom and nut hugging lr.

Wide legged, loose top block.

Stiff and starchy

Tight, distressed, 8% stretch and no cat hair.

Slim, straight and cuffed?

No crotch blow-outs please!

Where to kop t-shirts with these slogans?

Japanese and oozing of indigo

Vintage and puckered?

Unwashed and loose? Tight and unforgiving?

Shrunk and faded?

Did our annual bicycle camp trip with mini sailor( not so mini anymore) this year was our eight edition. We cycle about 45 km and camp in the Woodson a little campground, we brush our teeth twice if we think about it, change our shorts once and swim in in a local lake. The lake is a sand digs, looks like a Norwegian picture. previous yrs I had to push my boy along the way, not going so fast , this year we flew both ways we agreed to keep doing it even when I ride a scootmobiel

Tender Co. / Warehouse / Duke / Cane’s / The Flat Head

I heard he was also moonlighting for WHSmith

I don't know what to say.

The 1922 jeans on the other hand were un-hammered and a danger to leather seats everywhere 😂

I like the sharp rivets, but not across the board. On my ‘51 XX and RB jeans I’ve hammered down the coin pocket rivets to save my wrists, but left the rest. On my ‘47 jacket I hammered the rivets on the cinch and the sleeves, but left the ones on the pocket.

Some people hammer them down. You can cover with a spoon and hammer to make it more round. i like them sharp actually. but they go dull after about 9months for me. im really looking forward to my next pair in the fall. gonna go for another 1947. WW2 probably best cut for me but I like the 47, 51 etc fabric much better.

Less true when you live near a Self Edge: plenty of folks here in Iron Heart & PBJ & The Strike Gold who just walked into a shop and wanted a pair of jeans. At this point I usually only make a comment when someone’s wearing something pretty obscure, for better or for worse

Sassafras / Fruit of the Loom / Freewheelers / Warehouse

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.

Still 12 months to go

RDR3 coming soon...

Flat Head FN-D111 after a few more months of wear and few washes.

Here's one for the collectors.. ..bonus Lenny photo ..it's a 35yr old deadstock Silverstone 506xx repro from 1990 ..according to 'denim legend'.. Silverstone (and subsequently Ground-Alls) went out of business because of the exacting standards of the perfectionist owners.. i don't know if this is true or denim-lore but they did go bankrupt producing an incredible repro during the golden age / largest denim-boom on the planet ..the very first cowhorn patch which has been oiled annually so it doesn't crack shirt weight denim as we would expect ..you'll not see another one of these this week, month, year.. probably ever