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im wearing stan smith comforts in silver at the moment, looking good with baggyish jeans in my opinion, otherwise its normally classic bits such as superstars in all brown plain leather, rod lavers, huaraches etc.

ebay..those others look nice too.

bump for the americans etc coming out in my nighttime!

I just got some new jeans (ringring the ones i told you about) and they are calling themselves 'circle r'.

Im loving them loads, so im not really worried about their origins as i paid only 16 pounds plus 4postage. Just curious aboutthe range, what it is etc.

They are blue selvedge, non in the coin pkt, same colour bar tacks on back pkts, no exposed rivets, no label at all in normal place, red tag is plain, just with the r thing, right hand belt loop is red, tags say they will shrink 5% which is perfect for me, they are stiff but ive worn stiffer, seem bout 12oz, button fly top button back blank, arcutes look double neede (no diamon) made of string sorta material, look actually like evisu gulls as they are skewed a bit and v prominant. cut is 501ish, q baggy, tho they will shrink.

tag says 'circle r is a selection of premium quality levis garments, reflecting levis tradition...simply named circle r we present a juxtaposition of contemporary taste and classic style' back says 38.000 as price and since the code is jp707 im sure they are japanese yen, which works out at 191 pounds!! and i paid 20! measurements say 91cm, 98cm does anyone know what that is in inches??

think that looks like material make up has a think at 58% and one at 42%, so im wondering if they are ablend (Hemp or something?) but its all in japanese so i cant read it!

this is them

http://jjap.co.kr/sub/view_product.php?Code=LV00049&CatNo=12

r1001 model

maybe check aeroleatherclothing.com to see thier products

what are button downs for the brits in here?

i spend money on trainers and jeans and thats it - the rest is mainly chazza (charity shop) gear, so its

scruffy short sleeved shirt

leather belt

dark jeans, baggy in length but reguler width leg

slimmish turn ups

nice nikes or adidas, usually on the retro end of things

light weight summer jacket ot simple wool jumper (grey or choc) or sometimes hoody

thats it really, dislike jewelry, flashy watches and especially superflous leather cuffs on men.

Interesting question...

To me the beauty of denim is the very fact that within the realm of an everyday and superficially utilatarian item is found a great depth of detail and historical purpose. To me i love the fact that what started as a piece of workwear is now workwear and fashion. Jeans range from the shredded stonewash 80s monsters to the rigid dark plain etc. I choose dark plain denim because i think it looks nic is the simple answer. I enjoy the fact that wearing dry denim is unusual, i like telling people about it and i have a personality with a slightly obsessive edge that means i love attention to detial. A rivet present or absent can make my day - that might be true for us, but for how many other people is it?

When we wear denim we wear history. There is something nice about being able to survey historical fashion and aesthetic trends in what you wear. I can wear some 40s replica denims with some 70s tennis shoes and listen to some 90s hiphop, next day its a modern cut of jeans, some nike rifts and some folk or whateverl. Dont know if that makes any sense but i just like that about modern society and product consumption.

I like the exclusivity of wearing japanese brands but i also like the ubiquity of levis and the fact that within a massive company mass producing cheap goods are the treasures we all crave. I like the fact that to most people jeans are anonymous, unless they are very birhgt/ripped etc they are almost like anti-clothing as they are often very plain, however to those in the know little detials such as leather patches, specific bar-tacks or crotch rivets are beutiful features!

I dont really like the fact that the topman denims had suspender buttons on, i think it is a valid feature on a pair of repica levi bucklebacks but not really arbitrarily affixed to a modern fashion pair. Similarly, there was a pair on here somewhere with both bar tacking an a rivet on the crotch which was a bit uneeded.

Usaed to wear diesel all the time before i was into selvedge and still wear a pair of kratts which i really like. Diesel has become identified a little bit too much with a certain type of person (id say its worn by the same type of people as wear g-star here, ie often teamed with some sort of blon 4-in-1 haircut and a ripped pink-t shirt, not wanting to generalise!) but that doesnt really bother me too much.

not sure how cogent all that was......

I have some denime jeans for sale here (in UK)......http://threads.fuk.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=41716

i have some denime joints up on this webpage. i am in UK tho, check em out!

http://threads.fuk.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=41716

is there any practical purpose to the arcuate or is it just aesthetics/branding?

dont hink there are any rod laver mids on there, do they even exist??

really nice those og model lavers, there are some pastel ones on oki-ni,

Cheers paul t i added a few detials, can anyone else help here?

1873 – First Blue Jean created, 9oz denim, cinch, leather patch

1886 – First ‘501’, 2-horse patch introduced

1901 – Second back pocket introduced

1927 – 10oz denim introduced

1936 – Red Tab introduced

1937 – Suspender buttons removed, back pocket rivets covered

1943 – Cinch (martingale) and crotch rivet removed

1944 – Arcuate painted, not stitched, watch-pocket rivets dropped

1947 – Stitched arcuates and watch-pocket rivets back, arcuates become twin-needle stitched (diamond apparent at base)

1953 – Red Tab made double-sided

1955 – Paper patch introduced

1965 – Nipple top alloy rivets introduced

1966 – Rear-pocket bar-tacked not riveted, no watch-pocket selvedge

what is boars head meat?? sounds liek it mades of wild pigs........

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If I'm understanding you right, I don't see any red thread attatching the pocket to the demim. It says 501 on back of the top button and doesn't say anything on the rest of them. The other thing is that there's a number stamped on the pocket lining. At this point I'm pretty much positive that they're fakes. I think the fact that there's the redline on the outside of the coin pocket and on the back belt loop, makes it obvious. They're still a pretty cool pair of fakes, although I'd rather have had the real thing.

I tried typing the number that's on the tag in google 501-0193 and here's one of the results:

New Levis 501-0193/505/569/550 Series 18,000 pairs

We have 18,000 pairs of Levis 501-0193/550/560/569 series,Factory case packed,Serious inquiries only. Book your order now these will go very quickly, These are the most sought after jeans. Also 501-0115 series 6,000 pairs. We have Type 1 in addition. Price to low to mention call 1-866-575-3880.

Click here for picture

fob: MS/SA/EU - - price: CALL

Edited by AmericanTemplar on May 29, 2005 at 09:08 PM

--- Original message by AmericanTemplar on May 29, 2005 09:01 PM

i think there is a genuine early levis model with the selvedge on the outside of the coin pocket, anyway it looks cool. And there is deffo one with it on the cinch - the 1886 model i think.

your blazer bled onto a shirt?

pop means like coke lemonade etc

pop is cum? that is so alien to Uk ears...

served a great purpose then!!

And i guess people think its strange that i get excited by what looks to them like just another pair of dark stiff jeans, but we know how much fun is contained within that item!

Hehe, my girl aint too keen on the fact ive been wearing the same edwins for the past month and did about 2 months before than in them without a wash!

top work serge! You wear your jeans pretty hard!

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after days of deliberation, and against all better monetary judgement, i finally gave in to temptation and bit the bullet on some new fbt2 mids: those things are sick, can't wait for them to arrive. btw check the new visvim feature on beinghunted.com, cool stuff. would like to see more detail on those jeans!

http://www.beinghunted.com

--- Original message by rhythmandsound on May 23, 2005 03:37 PM

love to see some pics mate when they arrive!

So im checking out some pretty tasty denim joints on rinkya - and man are there a lot!! - and was wondering how it worked for others who have used it, costs wise etc. i dont really want to be droppping silly amounts. I also checked out celga but it seemed devoted to anime.

Side note: saw some lees with an arcuate that wasnt lazy-s style at all, but more like an upside-down levis....wierd.