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WW2 denim tux - 1944-45 jeans and 1945-46 flannel lined type 1 / Ironalls shirt / Trailblazer

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Bootleggers Reunion jeans SOLD

Had lunch with my lad in the seated area near Hibiscus Rising, a sculpture I’d read about and wanted to see close up. It’s touted as ‘Leeds first public artwork to reflect the cultural diversity of the city’. That’s nice language to describe the abhorrent police racism and brutality in the late 1960s against David Oluwale which is at the root of this. Then a wander around what they’re calling the South Bank end of Leeds. I can see the city is being opened up and this old part of town regenerated and linked into the city centre. A mixture of old red brick and new multi-coloured gaudy blocks whichever way you look. The Teletley's Brewery building... brewers long gone The front of Salem Chapel, dated 1906 The original chapel buildings from 1791, with the city centre in the background I never knew until today Leeds United football club was founded here in 1919 Modern city centre living Love this building

ive bought rising sun in stockholm, mister freedom in copenhagen, fullcount in shanghai — all bad "business" decisions, all caused by a pleasant browsing/buying/customer experience, and despite walking into the stores not expecting to buy anything — but have walked out of soas, cc, and vintage showroom without buying anything even though they had what i wanted (esp. at last/timeworn in vs) because of typical lukewarm/borderline hostile london customer service. (r&h is very welcoming and pleasant, kudos, but they didnt have anything i wanted. did get a nice and super quick hem job from them tho).

^ I’m not sure the Amazon example is relevant here. Many of us buying clothes from Japan do so (directly or via a proxy) from brick & mortar shops there, where we can assume staff are paid a fair wage and treated well. We do so because we want to pay a reasonable price for jeans without a mark-up (in the UK at least) that often doubles the Japanese domestic price. This may be caused by higher rents, staff costs, taxes, etc but as a rational economic being, I also want value and don’t have an unlimited budget. I would never pay £600 for a pair of jeans, no matter how courteous the shop staff are or how well-curated their Instagram content is. Remember too, that these shops also conduct a portion of their business online, so is it better to buy online from a domestic retailer rather than directly from Japan? I do support not buying from Amazon as they pay badly, do not have a great reputation for employee welfare and seek to avoid paying taxes where possible. I also like to support brick and mortar stores, but there is a significant difference between paying £10 for a book in a shop rather than £5 on Amazon compared to paying £350-£400 for a pair of jeans from a UK store rather than £175-£200 via importing from Japan. I’m not criticising shops like CC and SoaS but just explaining why I choose to shop elsewhere.

For comparison on the SC tux Japan retail: Blouse 52000 Yen = ~£272 Jeans 42000 Yen = ~£220 Total 94000 Yen = ~£492 Versus UK retail: £649 £599 Total £1248 Massive difference... not even close... and therefore harder to rationalise through import costs, taxes and overheads... as Japan aint exactly a low cost retail centre either I'm all for supporting 'local' businesses and I've bought previously from CC et al - and would again - but there are limits to that

… and the Steamrollers - size 32x34. 10oz denim - washed, never worn

The stores in Sweden that sell japanese denim like Second Sunrise, Meadow and Göteborg Manufaktur all charge very fair prices for the jeans imo, I'd gladly buy from them too to keep them in business. I believe I paid just over €200 each for my TCB and Sugar Cane jeans from Second Sunrise, hemming included, which is very fair imo. I remember the outcry when an old generational family-owned candy/fruit-store in my area had to close due to financial reasons, but yet I never saw anyone actually buy from them when they were still around. So I think it's pretty simple, if you want a business to remain: support them. But we are all pretty good at this on this forum probably, buying from small (mainly Japanese) clothing brands instead of fast fashion chains.

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USN Work Trousers SOLD

Giant mega post incoming. Variations on a theme this week... 1. Starting with today, Easter Sunday Barlesoni Homburg Late 50s Vanderbilt Wool Coat Fuzzy pink thrifted cardigan Vintage bandana and ring bolo Vintage Lucky rabbit tee Vintage tooled belt with silver buckle Sized up 501 STF Vintage Justin Boots w/ inlays Wool fisherman's cap Lightweight wool cardigan 2005 Culture Pop RIP tee Vintage painted belt with brass buckle Turquoise pin Left Field NYC x Blackblue Vintage Chippewa boots 3. Denim Fishermen's cap Wood bead necklace Orphaned vest R.CRUMB Robert Johnson tee @chicote Vintage polyester slacks Vintage Justin King Features x Bloomingdales Popeye tote 4. Future Monsters x Ebbets Field Vintage Embellished Twin Peaks FWWM tee H&M loose black jeans Vintage Laredo boots with inlays

I always try to buy most stuff from stores located in Sweden (i.e. Second Sunrise and Göteborg Manufaktur), because I want them to exist. It is the same reason I don't buy my books from Amazon. I want to be able to go to a good book store in Stockholm and browse and maybe get recommendations. The prices at CC seems to be steep but I like what they do in their store and the content they are creating on IG etc. I've only been there once but I got great service and they are good at discovering and showcasing different brands.

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fc1108 since 2011 in honour of early sufu hv been wearing em stacked recently. the 1108 has almost the perfect shape for stacking, maybe a tiny bit more taper wdve made it 10/10.

Yesterday i made a little insect house out of a spare bit of waney-edge oak.. it's like social housing for all the l'ill insects, they'll move in on a first come first served basis.. it'll elevate the neighbourhood with a more upwardly mobile class of owner occupier insect.. eventually they'll sell it on at a vastly inflated profit to a multi-occupancy household.. then due to apathy i'll fail to make anymore and the whole system will collapse, but hey, that's insecto-capitalism for ya! It had to be these sizes because 1) this was the only waney-oak i have left and 2) i'm trying to cover up a horrible bit of the neighbours wall Coated a piece of ply with mould release solution Cut some bamboo into 4" lengths .. mixed some resin ..poured it into the bottom of the insect house, using the ply to stop it running out ..dropped all the bits of bamboo into the resin and waited for it to cure Popped the ply off and they're set in resin, i didn't want to cover the bottom.. for 1) i didn't have anymore green oak and 2) the rain should run straight through.. ..ordered some long vine eyes to wire it to the wall along the same plane as my outside lights.. (which are also there to cover up the horrible bit of wall) but they were fkin garbage, they wouldn't hold an insect, ne'er mind an insect des-res so i made some out of marine grade landscaping screws, i'm holding it by hand like a proper foolhardy professional ..there we go, i'll screw them in with a hex driver and thread a keyring loop Ta-Daa! ..then today, i rode up to Stanage Edge ..up to the ridge ..had to do some rock hopping with bike on shoulder before i got back on track ..up to Stanage Pole ..down to the reservoirs at Redmires ..overflow ..to ride the loop home from here would hab]ve meant lots of boring road miles.. so i rode back up to Stanage ..around the ridge ..and stopped for a rest.. well it is Easter Sunday ..then home

@MJF9 here are my 37s. Maybe I was a little too hard on them. Haha. multiple washes and trips in dryer as well as crotch reinforcement

1927 type 1 601b

Here’s the 43s - size 33x34, washed never worn SOLD

I don't think it can, they're just showing off the print. Technically you could wear it inside out... you'd just be wearing an inside out jacket.

Speaking of black 50s

Oh.. and a friend of mine had her art book published I've finally been recognised for my contribution to the arts

1937 jeans... been wearing most weekdays for months... steady progress though I think reasonably stubborn (will take some pics of the 33 jacket and 22 jacket for comparison soon) Plan is to hang on until the summer then wash Really like both the fit and the denim

Regardless of the intercontinental price differential, what do owners of the new SC WW2 garments think? How do they compare to CSF for example, which have (price and sales policies aside) been held in high regard by many on here for their attention to detail and period accuracy, etc?

Yeah, I would say the shrinkage is almost the same for the 47 and 53's.

@silencejoe nice... what are you planning to do in Tokyo? Any shopping planned? Enjoy...

heard ppl hate bout the zip head position, well it's good quick relase one...

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I personally fall squarely into the bracket of people who did not know any better so bought from both for a little while (and still would buy some things, and use for hemming etc). Once I realised that there is a whole world of options out there I stopped. They were a gateway I suppose, I imagine a number of people go through the same process. I have never personally been into either, but I can imagine the customer service being great (it usually has been over email/phone). If you have the level of income that allows you to freely pay 3 x over the odds for something and enjoy the customer service component too then good luck to you, enjoy!

Good job @Double 0 Soul - we have a few of those insect houses on one of our courses but on a grander scale - Several pallets stacked high scale, so think insect tower blocks!

Yea there is definitely a contingent of people who go into the store because of a certain sort of curb appeal and then just pay whatever the price tag is without thinking too hard. They may think “nice jeans” but quite a few don’t really know why they’re nice - at least not in the way that people on this forum really would. And they’ll never care. At that level of income there are quite a few people who will pay twice the price for a level of convenience anyways.

I don’t think this is the case. I think they have an idea what they’re buying but somehow don’t realise it’s available much cheaper with a bit of research. I know a couple of people who’ve paid SoaS prices and they’ve been the folks that have got into Japanese denim, etc and assumed that high prices from the handful of shops they were aware of were the norm. I imagine that once they dig a bit deeper and fall into the sort of wormholes we live in, then they may discover the strange world of proxies, Yahoo Auctions and sending Google translated emails to shops like e2nd, etc to take advantage of Japanese domestic prices.

They don’t need to be “sufficiently informed to know the kind of details that make such a product appeal,” they just need to be sufficiently well-off and sufficiently disinterested in clothes to see something with a big price tag and assume that since it’s expensive it must be nice

Nonnative Nonnative Phigvel Vans

MOTO #2121 light brown Latigo in the wild also feat. Roy Foremans, SC rainbow Okinawa, prob. Dansko clogs, prob. Tender Co. socks

By the way: "Grailed prices" are unrealistic attempts of scalpers. Buying items just to make a quick buck. That's why those listing just sit there for months/years on end. I bought these pants to wear, and did. I put them up for sale, because of financial necessity, not because I wanted to get rid of them. The price I asked was clearly very realistic, because I sold them within 2 hours, to a gentleman who will be very happy with them next week and is clearly financially able enough to instantly buy a pair of pants at that price point. Also if you had looked at the pictures, you would have seen the pants are in absolute immaculate condition. Negativity is a disease that slowly eats you from the inside and quickly spreads to all of those around you. I hope you get better soon, for the sake of everyone. Happy Easter

Ewwww it smells like TWC in here.

Mister Freedom Outlaw in Sugarcanes double black 13oz denim starting to show some subtle fading.

Levis Vintage hoodie Edwin tee, unseen Iron Heart vest Momotaro New Balance

FW 1927 FW 601b Nicks

And happy to share some pics that I received. Can't post all the pics here but if someone would like to see more please feel free to ask. Cheers

I don’t see you. I only see worn pants posted at grailed prices

Finally got around to patching the knees on my cane’s.. the right knee tore through again while i was stitching the first patch, lol

FW 504xx FW s601xx

Homeward bound after a trip to Johannesburg and Pretoria... The main man himself in Sandton, Johannesburg Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria View from the Voortrekker of Pretoria Peech hotel in Johannesburg, near Melrose Arch Freewheelers WW2 denim and Buckweat

Another morning in the barn. Fullcount 1101s this time. Carhartt jacket being used as intended. Mucking, haying, watering, feeding, petting, etc.

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