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Fuck! 😉 NB: From this point forward all fades will be ‘Dad fades’ .

SCSC 1945 tux... 'before' and 'after' 30C machine wash, line dry

Jacques Marie mage ooe yofukuten railroad chore lady white tee ewing dry goods bracelet duke mantee belt (my oldest one from him) word of mouth contest jeans 411S clinch natural latigo engineers

Rototo / TCB / Freewheelers / Canes / Warehouse... with a big thanks to another top bloke @Geeman for the sneakers

postwash (2nd wash)

One more for the road. 4 absolutely sun filled days in the Lake District. All the rain gear was a waste in packing. We’re maybe not as hearty as Julian and the overnight backpackers but first real vacation (just us) since our son was born during the pandemic. Perfect trip, lots mostly mellow day miles with some amazing scenery and great food in the evening. Sad to leave. despite being a photographer really didn’t take many pictures, more just enjoyed being outside. But my wife did take some at the top of a little hill. If I have anything from my other camera to share when I get home I will, but I prefer bad weather for landscapes! Jeans will def need their 2nd wash upon return. I think a darning repair is imminent, so they may drop out of rotation until I get it sorted 😣

SCSC '45 jeans and jacket, '42 jeans, FW sweatshirt and War Denim book thrown in ftw!

Love those Tender boots ATWM. Papa Nui x Major's Tailor cap / Freewheelers 1922 and tee / MASH belt / Sugar Cane 1946 / Nicks boots

Some pics of my 50s as I mentioned them in the Denim Blunders thread and realised I hadn't shared before.

Me: Stepladder Ranch / The Vanishing West / Tezomeya / Duke / Word of Mouth / The Flat Head Dog: The Real McCoy’s

FW wwii type 1 FW 1922 jeans

Here's the progress on mine, as yet still unwashed. The creases are becoming more defined, showing some fading. Nothing worth reporting on the backside 🫢...

Got up this morning and Leonard had made a new friend ..made some coffee WH 506 drying on the line after it's annual wash ..rode up to Burbage ..stopped for a drink, wearing Odd Future Vans ..rode to The Surprise View ..this is where Porsche drivers plummet to their deaths.. y'know, not paying attention, singing along to Maroon 5 on the radio.. just picked the wife up from her bi-monthly session of lip fillers and anal bleaching, rushing to get to the golf club for a Cinzano.. when all of a suden "Surprise!" and you're off the cliff.. and here's you thinking Sheffield's only contribution to society was steel and synth-pop ..it's actually just over the border in Derbyshire but that doesn't quite fit my narative. ..can you spot the chalked out routes? .. Empty Rubicon can came in handy / Keeping Britain Tidy ..Rode through Hathersage to Hope and stopped to drink my coffee at The Adventure Cafe.. my bike was far too cool and aloof to mix with the others. ..lovely oak gate on the way to Edale Edale ..in the foothills of Kinder Scout ..up the back of Mam Tor ..down t'other side ..broken road 😍 ..home pottery in Castleton selling hand made ceramics ..Lady Cannings on the way home ..and when i got home after a 5.5hr ride feeling absolutely exhaused, my wonderful offspring had bought me a big bottle of Lychee Mogu Mogu ..the worlds greatest non-alchoholic drink

Some pics of my 46 and 45

Tender shades / The Vanishing West ‘47 506xx / Power Wear x Motor Psyclone / new from Duke / contest jeans / old TFH kicks

Back in uniform. Freewheelers, Two Moons, Freshly washed WMJ, Tender

Nice hike to Blackstar Canyon Falls in Socal. Wearing Ooe Yofukuten SOA03 and Blundstones and a Papa Nui A3 cap in their Amoskeag denim

American Optical, Sugar Cane, RRL, Coronado Leather, LVC, Padmore & Barnes

prewash

Bump Denime 10th Anniversary 1937s... tip off from my pal @beautiful_FrEaK... I need to wear these more...

xx-011's

Have fun for the 22501xx scooby 😉

Rockets are getting a much needed wash so I’ve been in my TCB 50s and SC41001 instead Ebbets Field/J Press/TCB/Tony Lama Here is a better shot of the boots along with some bonus TCB roping and train tracks. They’re caribou Tony Lama gold label snip toes, probably from the 70-80s

Well for my sins I was on styleforum off and on 😅. Early 2010s I was more into Engineered Garments and the early Soloist collections, stuff like that. I had APCs and black LVC 1978 501 but wasn’t really a denim nerd. Late 2010s- weaker pound post-brexit I slowed down on proxying anything from Japan and less interested in clothes in general for a bit. In 2020 I got some TCB 50s and that ended up being a tipping point for me (should post some pics of them come to think of it). Lots more denim and repro stuff followed and I found myself lurking over here often and eventually felt like I might as well join in. Like, if I’m browsing anyway to see what people are saying about Slash Overalls or something then why not? It’s a more relaxed vibe here as well. styleforum still seems prone to odd nonsense and drama in the main threads. And like other people on here I'm of that age that grew up with forums and find the new social media landscape just weird.

One from the final ‘production’ run … and f-ck me it’s another one of those ACE buckles 😋 (note the humorous emoticon @Double 0 Soul), albeit I’ve swapped out their acrylic jewels for real turquoise I know this is isn’t my thread nor is it (was) my shop but I might do a little ‘class’ in belt making here - just something to let folk better understand some of the aspects, the shortcuts taken, the myths busted etc. Maybe it’ll keep the thread alive a little bit longer if folk want contribute or chip in some questions or queries?

And he had worked with Samurai. (this has possibly been posted before somewhere on the site. But I hadn't been aware of it.) He had been fascinated by Samurai's original 15oz denim (I guess the otokogi). On a whim he asked Mr Nogami, whether he could make a jeans out of his denim and immediately feeling bad about asking such a question. The denim is of course a main component of a denim company. But to his astonishment Mr Nogami agreed. The results look pretty cool. It seems they were never for sale. Pictures from his blog:

had Nicks do a full beeswax treatment to my roughout boots. Very waterproof now and they look great

Butcher Products top At Last & Co Lot. 161 (looking slimmer than IRL in this shot) Carmina wingtips

wwii type 1 1922 jeans

Ridiculously kind mate … you clearly have no idea who you’re dealing with. Although I’ve not posted much, I’ve been watching competition closely. There’s been some great evo already and a lot of brilliant posts so it’s going to the wire to see who has pulled out all the stops … maybe we can add another prize

So... to add a bit of spice to the #WoMCon, our very own @Duke Mantee has only gone and made this cracking mini trucker wallet as a prize. What you say. What indeed. Anyone who knows Mike will know what a kind, generous, top bloke he is... this is just another example... massive thanks mate!!! The wallet will be awarded as a prize to the contestant who provides the most posting entertainment over the contest duration. That's it. So it's posting and shenanigans ftw!! It'll be judged by @Maynard Friedman, @Duke Mantee and Simone. Maynard will kindly organise the vote and announce the winner at the same time as the overall contest winner. I now have that ^ wallet in my possession... and it's a beauty!!! Good luck folks!!!

Post polish RW merchants I got in 2017.

Thanks for the kind messages everyone. We’re all doing well. Sleep pattern is nonexistent but seems to be working somehow. Our baby girl (unnamed currently) is going great, shes small but mighty, and has a very cheery disposition. Im managing to wear the WOM Jeans each day, even if it’s at 3am for the feed and change! I’ll keep you posted! Thanks.

I'm still an avid collector of records. I don't know how many thousands I have at this point. Everything from 1950s Rockabilly 45s to blues and jazz 78rpms from the 1920s-1940s, and tons of LPs (10inch and 12inch) covering various 'vintage genres'. I've never been much of an organizer so finding anything specific can be a challenge. The only segment of the collection I'm still intimately familiar with is a section of about 600 LPs that I shipped from England when I decided that the US would be my permanent home. I suppose the fact that those 600 LPs were so intensely and voraciously devoured during my formative years means that they're permanently seared upon my consciousness. But frankly at this pint in my life this huge collection feels like a bit of an albatross. Sometimes I'm tempted to get rid of the lot. Then I start imagining myself ten years from now, spending more time at home and getting back into actually listening to, rather than just accumulating records. Then I wonder if I'm trying to recapture something from my youth that in reality has gone never to return? I remember being so fascinated by my parents' record player, one of those wood console type things that always seemed to be on the fritz, and the handful of cool looking albums that my dad would play (Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads comes to mind). One Christmas they got me a small player of my own. Best present ever...The sheer magic of intently absorbing those particular musical sounds that fascinated me. I truly had the bug. I started accumulating and never stopped. Now I'm left wondering if I've lost the capacity to sit through a side of an LP and enjoy it. So many available distractions... Lift the needle off while I listen to 30 seconds of something else on youtube...Maybe it's not just kids whose attention spans are being 'evolved' by technology?

In bloom SC / Sun ray sportsware / Belt by Duke (non-vis) / 3sixteen / Flower Mountain

66s have arrived from Bears today. Will shrink them in the wash this weekend. I was worried the rise might be a tad to short but they are measuring 12 inch FR and 16 inch BR for 36 size so think will be fine. Waist is big and hopefully will shrink 2 inches but prefer to have them a bit loose and wear a belt anyway. Liking the wee extras with these. Probably will use that tote bag a lot. Impressed so far

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Down in Cornwall for the weekend: Tender, orSlow, Gustin

Thanks for the welcome @Double 0 Soul! I’m a couple years younger than most of you fellas, so traditional forums like this were once a bit foreign to me. After being on all the big social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, tumblr, twitter) heavily as youth, I ditched it all around the time I graduated high school. Reddit was really the only social media platform I interacted with and how I eventually found this place (from the cesspool that is the raw denim subreddit.) I think @beautiful_FrEaK or @shredwin_206 mentioned SuFu over there, I was delighted to find people who were not only much more knowledgeable, but could actually dress well posting here. It only took a couple of months of lurking for me to decide to bite the bullet and pay the initiation fee, you guys are such a wealth of information and entertainment that I feel the 10 bucks is truly worth it (though it’s cost me just a bit more than that in jeans!) As for how I got into denim, I’ve always enjoyed clothes. I got my first pair of raw jeans in high school during the APC/size down craze, a pair of 511s that never really fit me how I wanted (I couldn’t size down, I actually used to size up to fit my calves and quads.) I tried a couple other slim-fit budget pairs over the years (Uniqlo, Naked and Famous) but I couldn’t get the fit right. Eventually as the slim-fit started to fall out of fashion, I realized that higher rises fit me better. I started wearing old 501s almost exclusively, and after a couple of years I got bored of basically being restricted to mid and light wash jeans. I decided it was time for a pair of raw denim and headed into the city, after Self Edge had nothing that fit me in my price range they recommended I go over to 3sixteen, where the classic straight fit was perfect for me. They were my only jeans for a good while, getting worn to the office occasionally and on weekends, but eventually my will power gave out. I recently caved and have acquired a few pairs of 40s repros 😂

Thanks Double 00 I also joined due to the friendly and familiar(?) tone in this forum. This is the first and only time a have an online present, but I got so much from the forum so I wanted to contribute with what little denim knowledge/experience I have my origin story I posted in another thread, but here it is: " I’ve always been interested in clothes, doing the vintage 70’ies hippie style in my teens, then more streetwear and skateboard style the first part of my 20’s. When I finally had some money finishing uni, I was in a rut. Now I had money but felt too old for streetwear and did not really like the prep or business style. Luckily I had a great colleague who one day brought me 4 pair of his old selvage jeans for me to have, and then I was hooked! This is now 6 years ago and I’m been reading here the last 4 years, due to the purchase of the FC 1110XX which has the red tab and arcs, but when I found photos of the model elsewhere there were no arc or tabs – then superfuture taught me why. " Bonus info: What made me sign up, was because I wanted a belt from duke (received it yesterday!) and I thought the denim blunders was fun and wanted to chime in once in a while

Perhaps I’ll make another wallet for the last placed contestant! 😆

Happy with how these have shrunk. Washed at 40, low spin. Great weather for drying jeans too. Waist has shrunk 2 inches. Inseam 3 inches. The denim is a vibrant blue which I was expecting with the 60s. But it's also quite neppy which I wasn't expecting so chuffed about that. Might put a reddit post up with all the measurement photos at some point.

@ALB - that was a really nice project - a good way to have those buckles, which you can’t buy from normal routes, fitted on to some enduring veg tan 3 years ago:

Tender Co. x4 / Tezomeya / Duke / Russell + Family The elephant ear satchel is a huge hit !!!!