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Cool find, thanks for the heads up. Anyone know about sizing? Size up as usual for raw?

With all that praying I'd have expected more wear on the knees.

I'm after high-rise cotton duck, canvas-type trousers with braces (suspender) rivets. I don't really want a beige/cream colour-way. Any ideas?

Due to a draconian sartorial policy-change at work, denim's banned.

A 20 minute hot soak reduced the waist and IL to a perfect 34. I'm delighted with them. I usually wear repro cuts so it's nice to rock stacks because with an 8" hem it doesn't drag on the ground behind you.

I've just ordered a pair of Sarves 2.1 and I've gone for the 36 because I'm usually a 33/34. Judging from some of the comments on here, the shrinkage is quite dramatic. What do you guys think?

Changed my mind and gone for the 34 now.

Would you separate them? If so, how much for the wallet?

I tried on some similar SDA sweats in American Classics, but with some graphics that I didn't like, and they're quite fitted; not loose or baggy at all. The fit is similar to the McCoys above.

It's a perennial problem. Keeping hold of something until you're convinced you'll never need it again. The day after you let it go will invariably be the day you need it.

Omar's wearing a Drizabone, surely.

The jeans are amazing. I'm wearing them, and a huge smile, right now.

They're a perfect fit around the waist and now I realise the definition of 'slubby' in a denim context. I'm no technical expert but I can only describe it as like a coarse weave which is incredibly soft - the cashmere of the denim world. I've never come across anything quite like these jeans. The construction quality is excellent and I'm ecstatic about the arcs and red tab. Top end stuff. To add to my joy the transaction was swift, smooth - and tahonng's a top fella.

All in all, I've had a right result Now someone buy his jacket.

Bring lots of money/cards. London is probably the most expensive place in the world to buy denim. Interstate on Endell St in Covent Garden stocks Nudies. I think Browns on South Molton St has Diors. Large department stores might cater more for your needs and have the advantage of being under one roof.

I know the score, I'm a 34.

This thread's an education; highlighting the cultural differences between the UK and the US. Wifebeater refers to a particularly strong lager, and no-one over here ever pretends to be drunk, there's simply no need as we're already a nation of drug-crazed binge drinkers.

As you were...

I too have the same Oki-Ni/Evisu collaboration jeans on rotation.

Interestingly, I also have a pair of Evisu purchased for me in Yamane-san's tailoring shop in Tokyo and I'm sure you guys would be well equipped to tell me more about the model. Photos to follow later.

I thought I would share some pics of my Oki-Ni Evisu Katakana.

Those look like ones with the narrower cut, setone. I like the fit on you. I bought the wider leg ones with the katakana lettering in white. Like you, I only wear them occasionally but you can just tell they're gonna last.

A female [mainland] Chinese DVD hawker in the roughest pub I know, wearing the most intense honeycombs and whiskers on an nondescript pair of jeans - all a bit incongruous in a place where it's wise to avoid eye contact unless you're an ex-con with particularly fearsome facial tattoos.

You lucky northerners! Damn, we're in the capital city, bursting with punters desperate for Japanese denim and we've got to go up north to sample the wares. S'not fair.

I'd love Oink to resurface, but I think we're stuffed. Indie sounds promising, tell us more...

However when ever I see tighter Levis's and braces I alsways think of the late 70's and early 80's when they were adopted by skinheads with their 18 hole DMs with red laces and the whole ugly NF (national front FAR RIGHT WING) racist movement.

The fashion started far earlier than that. In the late sixties I was wearing braces to keep my Skinners high above my DMs to expose some shin.

The original skinhead movement was apolitical and had nothing to do with racism. Original ska, Motown and Northern Soul were the soundtracks to that era.

The links with fascism came about in the late seventies when the movement was hijacked by the far right. The soundtrack was wildly different too.

Size up one, in general. All raw LVC shrink down from stated waist size, by circa two inches. A few jeans (1880s, 1955 501) are made oversize, but the 1937 are made fairly true to size.

More LVC sizing info:

http://www.superfuture.com/supertalk/showthread.php?t=34010

Many thanks for clarifying this. Much appreciated.

LVC 1937s. Do I go for the tag size assuming it will shrink to the correct waist size? Or, size up one?

As a rule I don’t encounter much trouble, however, there is one amusing exception to this:

When Evisu first took off in London in ’97, anyone rocking high turnups (cuffs) could expect to be clocked by the fashion cognoscenti and ridiculed by the herberts.

While waiting for a train on platform 1 at a six platform station in south London, a train with several pissed up fuckwits drew up at platform 3. Some wanker began shouting and I returned a hand gesture which enraged him. He staggered off the train spitting foam flecked invective, clutching his lager 'tinny' and lurched toward the railway line which separated my platform from his. He tried to throw the can at me, tripped up, fell about four feet down onto the live rails below, seriously injuring himself. His drunken mates then tried to rescue him and one of them fell onto the line too. I laughed like a drain; it was that funny I was crying all the way home.

The next day I discovered that the operating company had to turn off the power and cancel ten rush hour trains to rescue these muppets before hospitalising two of them. The icing on the cake was learning that the whole group had got nicked as well: trespass on the railway, drunk and disorderly, threatening behaviour etc.

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"There is a fucking great old-school wood panelled english restaurtant on Jermyn street, pretty much opposite C&J if you want to spend some money and lord it up."

Do you mean Wiltons? No prices on the menus.

I ate there once, on expenses, and I heard this familiar braying female voice behind me and when I turned around to look, it was Thatcher! Aaaaargh. Never been back.