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It feels cold back here in the UK so i wore a pair of jeans for the first time in ages.. Hakusan Orgueil Sack Coat Dapper's Indigo Dot Devi's TMC Railman

made it out to my first house party since this all happened! Das Kapital, Iron Fart, and some West Coasts!

These might be ready for their first wash

Camping life Effector, denime, fullcount, vans

Hakusan 1950's Champion Gildan Freewheelers Lofgren

Freewheelers 46-47 506 + tee / Codina belt / Sugar Cane 1942 / Nicks

Stevenson mechanic shirt, canes m41058 (I think?), flat head engineers

Rare WAYWT in the wild Stevenson Overall Spellbound Red Wing

Timeworn x Hakusan specs Butcher Products shirt At last lot 147 Timeworn boots

Post wash no. ?? These are starting to look really good Indirect natural light as usual, ’51 601xx and Foreman Pants for color reference as usual

Flat head, canes, lone wolf. I love this shirt!

47 new vs old. I’m gonna go for the same pair again. Didn’t like the high rise at first. Now I love it.

Papa Nui, cresent down, blacksmith, fullcount, vans

nonnative henley Phigvel Wesco Boss custom

I've just got back from a week around Albuquerque New Mexico, which was totally made by extremely kind recommendations from @chicote. We're so grateful- thank you! Most of my photos are of family, but here are a some solo/landscape highlights, some including Working slack jeans: landscape just outside Corrales, where we were staying, on the way to a site of hundreds of Native American petroglyphs: which appear on rocks where black 'glaze' of oxidised iron is scratched away to make a lighter mark of the rock beneath: they were not easy to spot, here's a close up: we also saw a coyote clambering over the rocks, and the rest of my family saw a thorny devil (aka hornytoad, squirts blood out of its eyes), and we saw lots of anole lizards and 5-line skinks. Throwing a rock across the Rio Grande: the riverbed is almost totally dry at this time of year, where we were: best meals we had (we returned!) were at Itality in Albuquerque, on a plaza for indigenous-owned businesses, serving entirely vegetable local Native American food. It was fantastic, this photo doesn't really do the food justice but the stew was great (lentils, green chiles, summer squash), as were the 'pueblo tacos', and fry bread, which has a problematic history (devised from US-provided rations during enforced relocation), but seems to be a part of the NM culture now and tastes really good: up nearer Santa Fe the altitude is seriously high, and the clarity of light is spectacular. It's also a lot less hot, and a lot greener: Just outside the Jemez pueblo there's a calcium carbonate (chalk right?) 'frozen' waterfall: inside we found a crystal clear pool of water coming from a drip in the ceiling. Don't judge me, I tasted it, tasted like Topo Chico no lie Fenton lake, at the end of the same drive up into the mountains: the best bit for me was our visit to Sky City, the Acoma people's Pueblo- it's a long drive through pretty much desert to get there, but the landscape changes so radically with the geology that the drive itself was one of the best bits. It's at the top of a mesa (flat top mountain) and we got a bus up, and a tour by a woman whose family have a home there. Here's the view from the top: and the streets: a stairway to the skies (the top horizontal is a cloud, the verticals are rain) bread oven: the walk down is on very steep steps cut into the rock, with scooped hand holds: on our last day we went to Tinkertown, halfway up to Sandia Peak, which is the mountain that looks over Albuquerque. It's barely describable, but it's a gallery/workshop/home of Ross Ward, who was a sign painter and model maker. There are thousands of carved figures and scenes, a lot of them automata, mostly in the circus/fairground vernacular. Plus a boat that his brother built and sailed around the world, plus vast collections of pretty much anything you can imagine, all jammed into tight wooden corridors and rooms built out of concrete with thousands of glass bottles set into them, which act as windows, like this: bonus picture, I thought it was really cool that construction workers had hard hats with clip-on wide brims and sun/insect nets: Again, @chicote I'm just so grateful for all the time you took putting this itinerary for us together, I think we did all but one thing you suggested, which was too far of a drive. Best trip in ages.

We are currently on holiday in the Black Forest. This is the weather forecast so I'm not going to wear jeans anytime soon 😅

Washed my 1880s and 1890s. Obvs I've posted the 1880s a lot here - the last new Cone denim design, natural indigo grown in Nashville. Thye are fabulous. What we love with denim is now different jeans wear in differently. These crock a lot - but the areas without wear retain their colour. These have had a lot of wear, maybe 18 months of summers. Marbling at the back of the legs is lovely, I will post a pic when I can. The 1890s (left on the dual pic) are Kurabo, the jeans are posted as new right at the beginning of this thread. Kurabo's version of the early fabric is very green. I like that too but it doesn't have the micro texture of the Cone. These were really hard to wear in, almost no crocking with wear. THey are now my main summer jeans as I can't bear to retire my 1880s, which have now those little loose threads that signals that heavy repairs will soon be needed.

SCSC 1942 jeans... sized up at w36, maximum cinch applied, with big f-off cuff!!

Uniqlo, Fullcount 0105, Clarks

Tender / Two Moon / WMJ Son’s first day at a new school, just did drop off. I see even more grey in my beard. I feel old. Ha.

Just getting off work, variation on my outfit from a few days ago. 1960’s Gant shirt, Duke belt, 50’s Soviet watch, Cane’s M41150 and Lone Wolf Carpenters.

Freewheelers 1922 506 / Andersen Andersen boatsman / Codina x Rite Stuff belt / Sugar Cane 1946 / Nicks

Continuing the motorcycle theme Roland Sands//vintage bandanna/whitesville/iron heart/chippewa(no vis)/triumph

New jacket day. Was on the hunt for a type 2 or lee rider for a while and found this orrizzonti era denime on mercari. Got hit with customs, as usual, which doubled the price, but still. I like it very much. Else: bike helmet. Backpack. Canes. Muji shoes. Casio watch.

MASH M35 denim dungarees about eight years old now. These are reproductions of the dungarees worn by Civilian Conservation Corp workers and US Army enlisted soldier from the 1930's through the 40's. They started out as raw denim but are gradually fading nicely.

About 4 months of wear in my SOA03 with washes each month

Thanks @MJF9! Hope to be added to the list of cancer survivors. I guess I'll make this a PSA (public service announcement) on the PSA (prostrate specific antigen). All men should know (eventually) about their PSA level. It is a possible indicator of prostate cancer. If your general physician doesn't do an annual test for this in your blood labs, have them add it. While it's not a 100% fool proof test, if it is rising (hence the annual check to keep tabs) and you also have other symptoms (which can be very vague) then an MRI may be warranted. My story is no drug use, no smoking, low alcohol use and only one person with cancer in my family background. But the symptoms can be very little things that add up over time and you may pass them off as "I'm getting older". Pay attention to your urinary function and your sexual function and give all details (even minor) to your doctor. It can add up to an aggressive tumor in your prostrate, which can also spread cancer to other regions (luckily, mine did not). I'm just putting this out there because it may help even one of you catch things early!! Stay healthy and listen to your body. Cheers

Thanks for the warm welcome, all! I tried to photograph all the details of this pair. Does anyone know what the various numbers on the hang tag indicate? I'm referring to 7750 00, No. 70-00-5047 and Col. 93. It seems like the barcode is actually a combination of No. + Size + Col + 4.

SCSC '43 tux / Converse Timeline / @Duke Mantee... last night

It's been about 5 weeks since my last update. Despite the hot weather I've managed to wear these most days. Overcast outside today so a pretty true representation of the progress, I'd say. First repair happened a couple of weeks back. An inch and a half of hand stitching on the crotch seam. Likely I could have done a neater job had I not lacked the self discipline to remove my bifocals, and break my focus from reruns of Dickenson's Real Deal.

rite stuff duke belt fw 47 puma

Here’s some low quality photo content 43s and 47s The 47s (32) fit me like a glove and the 43s (33) fit quite loose, but in the nicest way possible 43s are unwashed worn for a few months, 47s a lot of washing and repairs around 1 year wear If these 47s were a couple inches longer they’d be my all time favorite jeans, but the length makes them less versatile

44, 47, 61

Ooe / Tezo / Hollows / Big John / MOTO

Rainy day fit earlier this week. Vtg Levis Trucker Faux Turquoise necklace '87 The Rat Hole tee Painted leather belt Bronson 1936 Lee-pro ACME Phoenix Cowboy boots

I haven’t posted many garden updates through the summer, because the lighting’s really tough to get right for photos, but that’s still where the jeans have been getting a good chunk of their wear Sunflowers came & went: (Okay, wasn’t wearing the jeans for that last photo, but they were there for the gardening) Winter squashes are getting ready, now, to pop up in the sunflowers’ place—but the few we sowed on the other side of the yard already have a strong head start. The longest vines are gaining close to a foot each day! Sunday, 7 pm: This morning, 7 am: This evening, 7 pm: Echinacea (bought pre-started) is doing great, & so’s the creeping ficus that had to start over this spring after I tore down the last decade’s growth …bench corner now also featuring yellow mallow + more potted pansies, and hopefully some cup-and-saucer flowers to be popping up some time next week in the other pot to the right Exciting things are starting to happen in the raised bed and in the little herb garden: more to come!

We took our little one to the Michigan Renaissance Faire over the holiday weekend. Both denims are really starting to crinkle even more so after the follow-up wash to get off all the dust. Ebbets/Denime/Whitesville/Rockets/Alden

Vintage Guatemalan embroidered shirt, Duke belt, Tender 132d jeans, beater new balances

No jeans pics. We just spent the afternoon in Überlingen. There was a pottery market. The alps are quite well to see. Not much snow on the tops...

Ok, finally got it sorted on the url upload. Sufu just doesn't like the "share" link that Google creates. But if I copy that link, paste in the browser, copy the new url that populates and then use that url, Sufu accepts the image upload. I've gotten a couple entry level vintage watches recently and this 1961 Hamilton A-600 Automatic is my absolute favorite. I was watching "Queer" and yes, noticed the suits and slacks, but more so noticed the watches. That era had a little bubble to the crystal that I love. So I started hunting through 50s and 60s watches until I came across this one. It was originally gaining four minutes a day. I got it serviced and now it's losing one minute per day. Not bad for an 64 year old watch picked up on the cheap from eBay. WoM jeans visible beneath.

Buzz, Bronson (dyed), Anonymous-ism, Adidas. It's been forever since I've had a pair of 'normal' sneakers/trainers. Fancied a change... I'm glad I actually went to the mall and tried them on. Apparently one needs to size up 1 and a half from their regular shoe size.

Whitesvile/samurai/tanner/bulova/clarks

UES linen / Silverstone Groundalls

A better colour comparison with my SC1945

Vintage saint James/jelado/vintage gat/dog

Achille’s Heel 132 post-wash, ‘51 601xx and Foreman Pants for color reference

Denime 10th Anniversary, 1937s

Freewheelers x 2 / Tezomeya / Warehouse

Vintage tshirt Phigvel 302 black Wesco custom boss debating on cuffing this denim