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what jacket is that? mister freedom?

Buzz Rickson's William Gibson collection L-2B Long

I'll gather some more info on my ducks and will make a dedicated post.

About 1 week in:

Single stitch throughout, no yoke, center patch, handstitched buttons, no overlock used, all that jazz...

Some interior pics of the store:

http://designwatcher.blogspot.com/2010/04/mister-freedom.html

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Be excited, be VERY excited!!!

Very soon...the Made in Japan leather collection.

There have been a couple of black denim threads in the past, but they all seem to have died.

Links to the old ones for the sake of it:

- MORE pictures of worn in, BLACK DENIM?

- Who Was It Talkin' Bout Sugarcane Black Denim?

- Recommendations for Black Raw Denim

I've closed those, so this will be the dedicated black denim thread from now on!

Out of all threads in Superdenim I expected this particular one to be the last that would need mods "policing" it because people can't behave.

May I remind you all that while this is a discussion board, that discussing should be about the topic at hand, in this case LVC jeans, so please discuss that and don't allow yourself to get dragged into childish arguments about who is right or wrong, who knows more than the other etc etc...

You're not only wasting your own time but also that of people who come here to actually learn, read or discuss about LVC.

If you really can't help yourself, please take it to the Trash, or even better PM.

You're all in this thread for the same reason, so please don't ruin it for yourself and others.

Thank you!

Oh, and this:

The main thing I'd be looking for with an device like this would be an app that functions practically like paper, so drawn and write (keyboard) anywhere within a document.

Would be the perfect thing during meetings etc.

Afterwards export the whole doc file into photoshop and start working from your quick sketches straight away.

I think that's what it would be perfect for.

A different note, perhaps I'm stupid and/or missing something, but why would one need 64gig on a device like this?

Old brass

Some pictures of my favorites out of the small batch of vintage brass buttons I found.

I decided to replace the buttons that were already on the Shore Jacket (which were also vintage, just a little more uniform),

it's interesting to see how something as simple as switching already beat up looking buttons to an even more aged and random looking assortment totally changes the look of the jacket.

To be fair the whole jacket has also gotten a lot grimier overall, which probably contributes to it looking less "bright & shiny".

This button is probably the most random out of the bunch, it reads "Legion Etrangere", which is indeed The French Foreign Legion.

One of roughly the same design, but a different material and more beat up. It reads "Garde Nationale", National Guard.

Both this anchor and ordnance button look like they've been on the bottom of the ocean for ages.

This one is also quite odd.

While it is impossible to make out on this picture and also quite hard in person, it reads "Sapeurs Pompiers" which is the fire brigade.

I can easily picture a deep black fireman's coat with these bright white buttons on it.

What is interesting is the way the top is coated with a fairly thick layer of what most resembles white paint or even plaster.

It is very rough, and looks almost home done. I have never seen this kind of coating before and I'd like to find out what the story is behind it.

The 100% cotton heavy weight fleece as seen from the inside. Extremely soft and fluffy!

The fabric is piece dyed and light sensitive, meaning that, while not indigo, it's colour will eventually change with exposure to sun, washes and, ofcourse plenty of wear!

I am really curious to see how this will look after a year of intense wear. A sweater with a well defined and somewhat contrasty wear pattern is something of a holy grail for me...

It has 100% cotton charcoal grey flatlocked seams throughout the whole garment.

This pic shows how the ribbing is already starting to stretch and it also shows how well the fabric molds to the body and also holds that shape. Those are actually very well defined elbow creases for a sweatshirt, and from up close it even looks as if the "deep" of the creases is a darker blue than the fabric around it. But perhaps that is just my wishful thinking...

Third up, and long overdue: the Mechanic Sweatshirt.

Available in chocolate, navy and heather. I went for navy since, well, it fits well with the rest of the blues I wear... Easy, ha!

Below, a closer look:

Sizing, soaking and shrinkage:

As a rule of thumb I take a Medium in all MFSC tops that won't shrink anymore, and a Large in the items that are unsanforized.

I did the same with the sweatshirt as it was preshrunk and intended as "stretch-to-fit".

When I received it, it seemed on the small side and when I first tried it on it felt pretty tight. After about a day of wearing and stretching and pulling it turned out perfect, perhaps even a bit on the big side if one would go for a typical slim "old fashioned" fit.

I'm mostly wearing it with a button up under it these days.

Christophe intended it to fit short and fitted and that it would eventually stretch and warp to the wearers body, with the ribbing stretched because of all the wear and pulling. (I imagine it to look not very much unlike the crewneck worn by Kerouac here.)

Pics:

Stamped cotton neck label and this seasons new rayon label, stamped with the items name and size.

The rayon label is stitched to the front inside of the bottom ribbing. Not the most common place for a label, but it makes for a nice rectangular stitch on the outside front.

A closer look at the two pockets, the top one fits a phone or pack of cigarettes exactly (am not totally sure, but guessing that that's what these kind of pockets were originally intended for, seeing when they first started appearing on shirts a lot, is pretty much around the same time that literally everybody carried a pack around). The button holding the flap down is the same metal painted one as used on the Mechanics shirt.

This also clearly shows the clever cutting of the tube to allow for extra room in the sleeve under the armpit. The whole body as well as the ribbing are a tubular knit.

As the ribbing is a single piece of knitted tube, which is used completely for the bottom ribbing, they had to manufacture 4 different widths of ribbing to accommodate for the 4 different sizes the sweat is available in.

The knit itself is a really soft and stretchy 100% cotton 3x1 knit, using two cream and one grey yarn creating this nice melange light grey.

Since the sleeve ribbing is cut out of a bigger piece it needs a seam, which at the end is bartacked for extra strength.

It's called a Higonokami also known as a Japanese Carpenters Knife. I just posted a link to a review I did on mine in the EDC thread.

Or follow the link in my sig.

Beat me on the Utility Vest Dump,

I'll still do one though, eventually...

Here's mine: http://cottonduck.net/198370/Higonokami

Quickly checked;

both in- and outseams as well as the rear rise are chainstiched.

Front rise, waistband and hems aren't.

Must note that up until last season's Ps-09, all MFSC jeans have been single needle stitched throughout and have never featured chainstiched hems.

On a different note, what's going down with the Double Volante jeans?

Pic not today but every day attire anyway...

Epic, Undercover HQ!

Does this look like it's still in the works?

This was in Japan seven weeks ago, and no that's not RingRing.

Ayo, is that RingRing???

WOAH.....

OK, that was beyond my powers but Hap saved us all.

Should be good to go again...

GO!

Dammit !

Try now ?