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Not too often I've a record of myself made by someone else but my friend got me over the weekend in a FW Tux. jacket is the s516xx and 601 1951's I just posted in the FW thread.

S601xx 1951 with probably about 6-7 months of real wear. Didn’t wash until about 3-4 months, quite frequently after that. I think this is a better denim to wash a lot. Not the one you want for really defined fades (good with me!). The puckering one the yoke is my favorite probably.

Kirk in Gunpowder. I wore these for these probably 3-4 months straight about 2 years ago, they got dirty and I tried to spot clean some areas which just really took off the dye in a noticeable way. After that I said screw it and just wore and washed like any other clothes and they were my main jeans for a few months when I was learning ceramics. Rolled with the marbling and everything. They’re beater jeans now but I actually like them more than ever at the moment. These were really slow to shrink - to the point that I was not actually believing they were unsanforized (still not sure) - but they did end up shrinking about 2” in the inseam and definitely a bit all over after all.

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

130 daily wear for over a year, maybe 2-3 washes.

He’s a good guy - but he’s cycled through some amount of clothing. Items seem to be getting sold weeks after purchase 🤷‍♂️

Day 1 BREAK-IN 8083 Muleskinner Can't wait for the evolution appearance if this bad boy .

Paris, Texas is a top 5 film for me.

Most patches are ‘designed’ fit some shrinkage … ie it’ll be fine when you follow washing instructions (40°C would be the upper normal) I boil washed (90°C) the bootleggers denim jacket and the leather shrank to about 2/3 size. Leather isn’t a woven material and depending on the tannage has the potential to shrink enormously.

^ I’d say it probably depends on the quality, type and thickness of leather used on the patch (I’m sure @Duke Mantee and others here can give a more informed view) but from my experience I wouldn’t go higher than 60°. Anything higher and you can turn the denim bland too - boil-washed jeans!

I think he may still be around but not active under a different username

Redchris used to be a user here. IIRC he got banned. Still "active" at Denimbro in the BST-forum

At my parents' place for a family birthday. Planted a persimon tree [1] as a birthday gift. Got the new dick carroll comics [2] Tried air layering on my parents yuzu [3]. Let's hope it works out. Fig tree we planted last fall at my grandparents' place is coming along pretty good [4], let's hope for good fruits. Stork's nest right around my parents' place [5]. They used to come back every year, nowadays they don't even leave anymore, since the winters are so mild

Some Levi's LVC cone 501zxx and hemp blend 501 Regular 501 stf and 501xx stf Selvedge 514 ^Back of the selvedge on the hemp pair that I thought was a little interesting Cone 501z are like 10 years old but haven't gotten around to them until recently. Hemp Pair is from October. STFs are a ~10' pair and a ~00' pair. 514 are probably like 12 years old and even with many, many washes the denim still looks raw in its darkest spots.

Tilley / Ooe / Tender / Tezo / Hollows / Cane’s / Russell & Carhartt / Baggu / Tender / Stevenson / Cane’s / Blundstone

1942 FSA photos of Chicago and Northwestern workers rocking some nice denim.

I love the look of that hat, and you should definitely keep rocking it! I bought a Poten one, so I'm looking forward to it when it looks as good as yours!

Frankly speaking, I hope E takes a long break. Anyway, he was legend in his stone age....

He is more Acronym than E. (fotos and vid are from Bulgarian retailer "LUDAconcept" ) XRecorder_04042024_222421.mp4

Yeah, Badlands is one of the few films that I distinctly remember the denim. Cruising of all things is another (also great leather jacket and engineer boot inspo). Although, I still have yet to see Rebel Without a Cause despite loving other Nicholas Ray films.

^ I suspect it may be a case of 'once bitten, twice shy' Interestingly, I mentioned this to an informed friend for comment... the FW tab is actually burgundy, not red... seems the spectre over tab sewing is real 1998/99 Canes v FW 1937... (Sorry to derail thread but it's linked to the above)

To compare, I've only got the Freewheelers 1944-45 type 1 and WW2 jeans and the Connors 1946 first part jacket, not strictly WW2 but it uses WW2 denim... and the book. I've never handled any jeans from WW2 era or had a forensic look at the Sugar Cane details yet. After that disclaimer ... a few quick observations... Immediately obvious is the Sugar Cane have no red tab. Not sure why unless the original they copied from had the red tab missing... answers on a postcard please All the denims have grainy character. Different but all nice. Connors is superb denim that fades amazingly well; FW excellent vertical character; Sugar Cane is very irregular, dark and looks very promising (like it a lot). From what I've read, this character is expected. I don't know which is closer to WW2 standard; irrespective I'm not sure Mavis on the till at Waitrose supermarket does either and not one person had has commented... yet!! On the jacket, the fits are interesting to me. The Freewheelers is a jacket - longer and more spacious. The Connors and Sugar Cane are blouses imo - both nice and short. The Connors slimmer through the body, relatively, and the Sugar Cane boxier. They all have their different uses. The Sugar Cane sewing is most wonky by far with loose ends all over the place (which I've cut off). Freewheelers the cleanest and doesn't have that made-by-inexperienced-machinists feel. Sugar Cane have aged the buttons (laurel wreath and donut) on both jeans and blouse compared to the clean and shinier Freewheelers, and they feel slightly less substantial but still sound. Freewheelers hardware (in my experience) is top-notch sturdy. Both are very nice. Callin b_F for a proper jeans comparison 😉 Like my children, I love them all... though they are similar yet different

It’s up there (for me) with rating jeans based on how well they dress up. If you throw a blazer on with jeans you’re dressing down the blazer (imo), not the other way around. The whole concept to me is still a bit misdirected - if you’re going to dress up, just own it. It’s not that I don’t think jeans can look nice and clean but there are better options if that’s the point. It’s like those Cole Haan “dress” shoes with sneaker soles. They look confused. I mean do what makes you happy but that is not any sort of positive development to my mind. But I agree it’s not an actual issue with quality. It’s never bothered me at all.

You wouldn't be the first to do a similar thing: https://fromsqualortoballer.com/product-review-orslow-107-jeans/

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

^ 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.

TOKYO TRIP

ACME inspired 1950s/1960s SEARS branded "Roy Rogers"? cowboy boots with decorative stitching and red white and blue "Thunderbird" inlays. A bit of a personal holy grail. Years ago in the middle of my previous vintage country/ rockabilly dive I starting seeing mid century ads for these ornate old cowboy boots from companies like Nacona, Miller, and ACME. Very common in the middle part of the 20th century due to the popularity of entertainers like Rogers and the ever present Westerns that Hollywood was churning out, these designs grabbed my attention immediately. After a few lost auctions on EvilBAY and after holding a few pairs of far too gone crumbly examples I had kinda given up hope. Good examples can go for hundreds and they were getting scarcer and scarcer. And then these fell into my lap. Showing some obvious signs of age but the leather is still robust and they are still very wearable. And the best part? They are in my exact size. 🖤 These will get a deep condition and a polish, a toppy for the soles and will only be brought out for special occasions and light duty.

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

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

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

@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

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

1927 type 1 601b

acquisition of the month .... SC 1947 Black OW + SC 1946 Non Wash

Bit of a change for me. Crocket and Jones Chelsea number 5 in dark roughout on a danite sole. Need to get a dark leather or rough out belt to go with them.

Brand Model Size State Storage Denime 66 (Orizzonti) 34 worn Box Denime 66 (Original Line) 34 worn Box Denime 66 (Original Line) 34 BNWT Vacuum Denime XX (Orizzonti) 34 worn Hanger Denime XX (Shins) 34 ONE_WASH Hanger Denime XX (Original Line) 36 worn Hanger Denime XX (Original Line) 36 BNWT Vacuum Denime 66XX (Orizzonti) 36 BNWT Hanger Denime 66XX (Shins) 36 worn Hanger Denime 66XX (Shins) 36 ONE_WASH Box Denime 66XX (Original Line) 34 worn Box Denime 66XX (Original Line) 36 ONE_WASH Hanger Denime XX 1951 (Shins) 34 worn Box Denime WW2 (Orizzonti) 34 worn Box Denime 10th Anniversary (Orizzonti) 34 worn Box Denime 10th Anniversary (Orizzonti) 34 BNWT Vacuum Denime 20th Anniversary (Shins) 36 worn Box Denime Tokyo Edtion (Shins) 34 worn Box Denime Lot. 220A (Warehouse) 34 worn Hanger Denime Lot. 221 (Warehouse) 34 BNWT Vacuum Denime Lot. 224 (Warehouse) 34 worn Box Denime DNM 101B 34 worn Hanger Resolute 710 36x34 worn Box Resolute 710 36x33 worn Hanger Resolute 710 36x33 BNWT Box Resolute 711 34x36 worn Hanger Resolute 711 34x32 worn Box Resolute 714 34x34 worn Hanger Conner's Sewing Factory S409XXX M-47 38 worn Wardrobe Full Count 0105 34 worn Wardrobe Libra Pondus 40s 36 worn Box Sugar Cane 1943 (49009) 34 BNWT Vacuum Sugar Cane 1946 (49007) 34 worn Hanger Freewheelers 601XX 1947 34x32 worn Wardrobe If someone wants to take the Libra Pondus or Freewheelers off my hands, DM me

FW 504xx FW s601xx

back from repairs

Whites Semi-dress after almost 6 months (worn 3 out of every 4 days). Recent (top); new (bottom)—

Various recent boot porn. Vintage Chippewa Engineer steel toe 10EE, a but too wide and roomy, looking to sell Vintage Laredo with cutouts, 9.5d but very narrow, great profile Vintage Chippewa, both 10D Frye Engineer and Chippewa getting some love Vintage Frye pre polish Vintage no name snip toe, my oldest and favorite

denim workshirt coming along beautifully. Love the fade line from tucking the shirt in

Future knee fades secured!

Found this jersey I believe its from 1950s the fabrics look so old I love it in my size. (⁠●⁠♡⁠∀⁠♡⁠)