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1" on top of the raw measurements or 1" back after washing? The later, for sure. The former could happen but I wouldn't risk it.

@TripicalMidbooster Welcome to Sufu! Arket/Lee/Ooe Yofukuten/Duke (hidden)/Truman Boots

Price aside (which is way too high), it's nice to see LVC branch a bit out.

Denime 10th anniversary in a good size (not so good price). https://www.fromjapan.co.jp/japan/en/auction/yahoo/input/1156123203/ The batch number is nice though

Better!

I think the pair belongs originally to @Flash

Great looking 1966s! And @indigoeagle, that could be an explanation. But yeah, they are definitely washed already.

I dig it! Especially with the worn in jeans!

Just looked at your prices again. You should have bought at retail then, was roughly 215£ 😅

I just ordered the Brother Bridge Escape from Burg&Schild. 50% off. Maybe half a size bigger than what I usually would do. Let's see if it fits. If not, they go back

We do have another version for the patch in case the majority prefers that one...

Back at work...not such a beautiful view as above 🙄 Arket - SC1946 - Duke - Converse

That's how I understood it. They gave the same banner to Kurabo and they examined it based on this added 10% brown(ish) cotton to the yarns. On Instagram they have some posts talkoing about it. Basically that the cotton was less clean back in the days. You are right, there are more brands featuring a brownish weft. Or rather natural/unbleached weft. UES is one of them. I think what play a bigger role is on which actual model they base their whole procution line on? How many example pairs did they study? In which condition was the sample pair. A good (or rather bad) example is the TCB 40s. The sample pair was one worn down pair in size 28 (or smaller?!) and they based the whole pattern of the run on this sample. The counter example would be FW which uses several pairs of different sizes to create a pattern. Something I heard from @Duke Mantee and Seiichiro. And it is very likely that fits are still tweaked so they will fit the targeted customer base better.

Ah okay. I saw you writing SC MiUSA and thought you have the other ones in mind. Reasonable prices really? Haven't seen those yet The SDA D1708 has a similar design but with 2 pigs of course. Still I think there is a version with 3 tigers as well.

Neat Style calls their rougher WW2 models also "Kiwami". So maybe they just used the word as a reference and it's no brand or such.

This design of tigers tearing on a pair of jeans looks so familiar...I know I have seen it before but can't remember right now. Will dig Edit: @Double 0 Soul by the way those jeans are 1:1 copies to the Sugar Cane 1943 models (jeans and jackets) which were released this spring. SC49009 and SC19008

Not really unknown but I don't think Canton has its own thread here? https://jp.mercari.com/item/m74426806089 Seeing "Oishi Trading Company": is there a connection to Oishi-san of Oni denim?

All the info you need is here : But yes, lower rise than the WH version, but more hip flare/wider hips. In general a rounder top block. At least for the XX model. The 66XX was also quite trim back then. I would still say it was a repro brand and not modernized.

The grace of late birth 😅😉

Spoiler alert!

I was thinking about this for some time now. Especially after fading my Denime 220 and seeing so many examples of Warehouse jeans which have strong fades after a short time: do they design it like this so people are satisfied quicker and can start a new pair earlier? Or do they just save indigo and dye less to save money (in the current economic sitaution in Japan)? Also my Sugar Cane SC 1946 fade rather quick. Or I just got better at wearing jeans...

Ruined is a very strong word but somehow this "new Denime" made me less interested in the recent releases. When Warehouse took over I was very excited. Knowing they wanted to go back to the origin and rumors have it that Hayashi-san helped them (inofficially of course). The "new" XX denim they made for the 220 faded extreme quickly. Allegedly this is how the first run(s) of XX denim faded. I don't know. The XX denim I have on my pairs is of course from later runs and this faded rather slow. The fit of the 220 is very different to the original XX model (but after all I liked the fit, so I won't complain too much). All in all, these releases feel very Warehouse-like but with a different patch, red tab and hardware. Original Denime felt more rugged/unrefined. Even the 220 model now with different denims, changes of cut is totally Warehouse-style. In that regard, the 30th Original Line was a very good product and got the sense of "old Denime" very well (just don't talk about the 3-6 years under Wego before they introduced the original Line, they watered down Denime).

In my experience, UES have the best pocket bags.

It's been just released in August. Unless Denime/Warehouse hasn't posted some progress pics (of which I'm not aware) you won't find examples.

Ah yes, the different position of the back belt loop. I understand the Banner Denim as follows: based on the Levi's advertisement banner Warehouse owns (from the 1920s/1930s), they had Kurabo reproduce it. The Kurabo version has a brownish weft opposed to the older Banner denim version made by another mill. And they use this Banner denim on different models without paying attention to the period.