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Those wide horizontal labels don't become popular until the late 60s or later. they are designed to allow for names or id marks on laundry that is commercially laundered. You see them a lot on Universal Stonecutter and Red Kap items.

As far as a workshirt archive, there really isn't one that I know of, but check out this page: http://redcloud.co.jp/top.htm

Click on detail on the left and then on work wear tag.

Dis wan. http://www.marvins-jp.com/

HAWT DANG WHAT KICK ASS BLUE JEANS DER R DER.

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Somewhere in this thread are links to a japanese store/blog that has a large selection of 20's -50s levis. Does anybody remember this link or the name of the store?

If you are getting the '42 chinos I would stay stick with a 32 as they are baggy and fairly highrise, but they do shrink a bit in the waist. That said, I don't particularly like the customer service at HPA so I may be biased.

Yeah, the rivets on earlier LVC have always bothered me. I was under the impression that the flattop rivet was a feature through the 1920s and even early 1930s. It doesn't surprise me that LVC cuts costs by using the same rivets on pretty much every model.

Get a pair from Dejan I think he still has some from last year. I also think both the US made and Japanese mase are using hte same denim.

OPPS I stand corrected theses have different denim. Paul said in an earlier post somewhere that the folks that were involved with the US version went through a good deal to get the denim on the 20s 201 right as compared to originals. I have a pair of 555s and the denim is just incredible. I don't know about the this version. We've seen LVC Japan do some really good things and also some not so good just like US LVC but the 200 series is one of LVC US finer efforts.

Airfrog, do the American ones from earlier seasons have the flat-topped rivets as shown on the japanese pair?

Note how the 30s/40s Penney's sweatshirt does not have the contrast overstitch on the v inserts, sleeves or waistband, which is the same as the detail on the Hinoya.

Kiya, you are right about the bats, other than the color scheme, they look nothing alike. My mistake.

That is the Bacardi bat. This is a thread about vintage sweatshirts. Period. Kiya knows a lot about running a business and he is really good at marketing. If this were a thread about designer collaborations, sneakers, or yo yos I would obviously defer to Kiya. I honestly think that I know more than he does about vintage clothing and vintage sweatshirts. Here are some pictures of sweatshirts that I have and sweatshirts that have passed through my hands. The nicest repro sweatshirt that I have ever owned is a full zip Cushman hoodie in black with a white overstitch and a very nice repro brass zipper. My interest is that repros be of vintage quality and fit, and if that is your interest, then check out the Hinoya sweatshirts: you can get, like, three of them for the price of one bacardi sweatshirt from Kiya. Here are some pics. the one with three overlapping grey sweatshirts shows the fabric on a late fifties champion, a hinoya and the buzz rickson.

These are pictures of a 1930s sweatshirt I sold about two years ago:

This is a 1950s champion sweat that I sold 2-3 years ago:

Got any fit pictures of your Hinoya? Are you saying that it's of equal quality to the BR and Two Moon?

BR and Hinoya are of roughly equal quality and they are both hard to distinguish from vintage originals. They have different detailing and slightly different fit with a BR medium being baggier and boxier than a Hinoya medium.

I might post fit pics, but probably not anytime soon.

Don't waste your money on those, i've seen them in person many times, you might as well buy a Champion brand crewneck or just go to Target and pick them up. It's poorly made and the material isn't anything like what the other Japanese brands use.

This is garbage. I own Buzz Rickson sweatshirts, Two Moon sweatshirts and Hinoya sweatshirts and I have had many vintage sweatshirts pass through my hands. The material used in the BR crewnecks is identical to material used in champion sweatshirts in the early 1950s. They are well made and true to 40s and 50s vintage examples that I own or have owned. Actually, the construction is much better quality than on vintage originals.

It is possible that Kiya wants you to buy the BR sweatshirts with the Bacardi Rum bat that he sells and so he is knocking a decent product that he knows nothing about.

I got two of the cigarette pocket work shirts and they are awesome and very well made. I would have bought the dungarees, but I don't like the low rise, which seems inauthentic to me.

I don't really know what to make of these. A friend of mine bought them at a garage sale ten years ago. They had been used to wrap up a violin, which was presumably more valuable than the jeans were at the time. I hope it was a f*cking stradovarius. Anyway, no buckle back, but it has a crotch rivet. Possible that the crotch rivet was custom. I would like to see some good close up pics of non repro Levi's crotch rivets if anybody has them. Hidden rivets on back pockets. The old style buttons and rivets. I wish I had the other side which would have had the watch pocket and the red tab. My main observation: denim and details are a lot more like my Warehouse repros than they are like my LVCs.

Why not just get these: http://atthefront.com/us_boots_sshoe.htm

Corcorans! I have these:

But I'm into browns these days and am toying with this idea. What do you all think if I got some brown Corcorans like this:

And shortened them to 10-hole boots, so they would look more like work boots like these '34 style ones. What do you think of that?

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