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I like the arcs and tab and the denim and cut looks nice. i don't like the position of the cinch.

dkatz....great pics.You look like you are enjoying yourslef at least some of the time.

fre$co: Sounds fantastic. We're going to grow some broad beans this year..... I would definitely be interested in the recipe if you cared to share. Last year we only did runner-beans.

^ not a huge fan of the fit of the shirt, but cool batik! Might have to come back at you with some East African batik stylee

Do it!!

Batik is great....

Thanks everyone for your kind words (and to cash and Mike for the repz).

fardin and fresco.....give the pasta a go! It's not that hard (otherwise it would be beyond me) and it's well worth the effort. The great thing is that it impresses people much more than it should.

PaulT: I love your posts about London...you really convey the flavour of the city. I lived in Old St ( waaaaay before it was trendy....I think that's hilarious) and on Tooley St. for three years and had friends down Greenwich way. Your writing and photos bring the feeling of it all back to me. They really remind me that London is one of the great cities of the world. All that history......it's one of the crossroads of the planet.You should seriously consider doing a book project based on your wanderings. Can't rep. but will return.

Great fits riff n' zissou.

ranon: I suspect she's some sort of wire-haired Jack Russell cross ( maybe a distant feral relative of An-Chan?) but I tell everyone she's a Portuguese Podengo .

I should have grabbed a few. They would have been good with the pasta....

We came off the beach by this building. The bay is ringed with these. Originally they were gun emplacements built by the British during the Napoleonic Wars to control the approaches to the port. They were worried there might be a French invasion. Nowadays people live in them. That state of affairs must have been going on for some time, because the first chapter of "Ulysses" by James Joyce is set inside one.

Afterwards we went home and made pasta.

The days are getting warmer and longer.....roll on summer.

Great car zissou! Sportif!

So...the first day of Spring and the weather was nice. We decided to take one of the dogs down to the seafront for a walk.

Dublin Bay is tidal (obviously) and the water is pretty shallow in a lot of it. When the tide goes out it sometimes goes out as much as half a mile in some places, leaving a huge beach behind it. This time the tide was out, but not too far....

The Roy x Cones hit the sand

It was dead calm, and we had the place pretty much to ourselves...

We ambled about for a bit....Winnie the dog is getting on she's usually pretty calm these days. There were a few razor clams around.....(tasty but i wasn't collecting them today)...

We saw this guy hanging out waiting for dinner to swim by:

Funny, cos there are loads of herons around in dublin these days....by the sea, in the ponds in the public parks, in rivers etc...I don't remember ever seeing them when I was growing up. Global warming or something?

Headless family portrait ( except for Winnie....she told me she doesn't care if people on the internet see her face....)

too good not to share...

some japanese guy's incredible shoes and boots collection

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chickalot06/

He bought ostrich Edward Green's in Japan?!?!?! I can't begin to imagine how much he paid for those alone.

I'm in favour of it though. It makes me feel better about my spending habits.

Sorry marineabilly, that was at roy6.

I haven't seen the Warp and Woof casquette. I'm not actually sure they are part of Freewheelers. Did you try Genco?

If you're sure they are a Freewheelers sub brand and are willing to use a proxy, I have a txt document somewhere with a bunch of stockists who aren't on rakuten on it. Lemme know if you want it and I'll pm it to ya.

^^Ha ha...obviously from this point the conversation is doomed to start going round in circles.....

I agree with you on the one pair of denims, one leather thing....I have way too much shit, a lot of which I hardly ever wear. I'm going on a consumption hiatus (errr.....sometime soon...probably).

At the least the Roy x Cones mean I am no longer scouring the internet for pants, though.

@rnr: the Brakeman is this one:

A good link for detail shots (in fact a good stockist for Freewheelers stuff in general) is:

http://www.genco-clothing.com/SHOP/831004-CBRN.html

The guy they have modeling it has it buttoned strangely and possibly sized wrong which makes it look a bit weird. If it's sized correctly it looks much more like it does on the mannequin in the first shot I posted.

It really needs to be seen in person though. The cut is really nice....great taper in from the shoulders to the waist and the armholes are cut high. There are gussets under the armpits so it's still easy to move around. The bottom is scalloped like a shirt, only shallower, and it's longer at the front than at the back. The body is made up of only four panels-two in the front and two in the back-so really it's all about the cut and the quality of the hide for that particular model. They seem to break in really nicely too. Here's a couple of pics of a black one that's seen some wear:

front:

back:

@roy6: A friend of my sisters who goes to Japan a lot had a model called "Little Wing" which is made from bullhide which I got to check out in Hong Kong when i visited her over the summer. I tried the Brakeman on in Porky's in Kyoto. They only had the black in stock though, so even if I hadn't been suffering near fatal sticker shock on that occasion I wouldn't have bought. As for the name.....you could tell them it's by Freewheelers,

which it is.....or just tell them it's called "3rd Stone" . They seem to name the 60's jackets after Hendrix songs. I think we can all get behind that.

Edit: btw the linings on the 60's ones are wild!

What morse said. Real moccs have to be hand stitched, by definition. Also Russell Mocc's shoes use heavier leathers and often have more layers than, for instance, dress moccs by the likes of Alden, which makes a direct comparison difficult . Russell's are designed for serious outdoor pursuits such as hunting rather than casual Fridays at the office. They are, and should look, utilitarian.

I've never heard anyone who owns a pair complain about their quality....they wear like iron.

Started the day wearing a 3" beard, a Graf Orlock t-shirt, and my LVC 47s...

Lost a chunk of the beard...

Ended up in a moustache, hewhocorrupts t-shirt, and my 47s (not pictured)...

I don't neg, but your wanton destruction of that wondrous beard brought me very, very close.

Will +rep if you grow it back.

EWMI is a bit like Buco...the brand itself seems to be in limbo. The guy behind it now lives in Hawaii and is out of the clothing business ( in fact he is retired), although I believe he has a pretty nice archive. I think he may be pleased to see the designs still being produced and thus doesn't litigate ...it could also be that he's licensing some of these Japanese remakes, although I haven't seen any that use the actual EWMI branding.

I've handled a couple Freewheelers/ Hipsters etc. leathers. They're all made to the same standard. They are absolutely.....sick ( I hate that word but what are you going to do).

The hides are unbelievable. They are all hand finished and they don't put protective coatings on them so they are not as stiff as the Aero product or a lot of the other Japanese jackets. They also have a lot more grain and colour variation from the get go. They alternate panels of more grainy hide with smoother ones through the jackets. All the details- buttons, linings,pockets etc. are beautiful in their own right....they use stuff like check shirting flannel, indigo wabash, really nice wool twill,etc. All pretty next level.

They fit true to size. I am a 40 inch chest and tried on a 40 and it was perfect. A 38 (which, when they make it, is actually only half a size down...1cm less in the shoulder and chest usually) would have been a little bit too small.

I'm pretty sure I will be blowing this years ( and next years ) clothing budget on a Brakeman in Canyon Brown. Having seen and handled one, I don't care if I'm never able to buy another jacket, so long as I can have this one.

I really like 'em. The leatherwork on the originals is astounding.

I like stuff from the '60s more than most people here seem to. I haven't put my money where my mouth is yet tho':D

What were those?

They also repro a bunch of old East West jackets ( in the Hipster Reunion and Rockstar Reunion lines) so maybe it's some sort of combined inspiration?

edit: I went and looked it up....I think you're right, that definitely looks like it had an influence. Maybe that's also where East West got the idea?

I love the Freewheelers logo....the Bootleggers version is my avatar. A couple of days ago I found what I'm pretty sure was their inspiration:

Bootleggers Reunion....for trips!

Cash and riff....

It was warm in Dublin today. It really felt like the first day of spring. Me 'n Rosie took one of our dogs to the seafront....the tide was out...

More tomorrow.

Very good. Also very brown.

Great work roy6.....but....that's a family visit ? You're not looking for votes?

Thanks, Ran. That's actually a Tootal scarf, traditional English silk, I'm working out how to wear the kitenge, but I will.

Hmmm... the old-skool English holiday makers used to tie their hankie on their head (See Steve JOnes in the Sex Pistols' Pretty Vacant vid), maybe I should try that and see if 78 and hapoloid neg me, whaddyareckon?

...Mine just arrived and i swear that's what I was going to do... Steve Jones was exactly who I was thinking of as well....

You're an Englishman, however, so it's fair and reasonable that you get dibs.

I missed this yesterday...wicked CTB! The jeans look great and I'm really digging the new fit with the Boots and A2...looks great!

For some stupid reason I can't rep you. Will be back to you as soon as...

Cut looks pretty good. The top block looks nice.

0-60 in 52 seconds!

Since people are posting car pictures, here's mine. It's a Morris Minor 1000 that's been in the family for three generations. My grandfather bought it in the late '50's ( he was downsizing from a Minor 1100 on his retirement!), it passed to my mother and then on to the next generation.

Originally like the ModelT, you could get them in any colour you wanted, so long as that was black. They were also famous because the were only three or four variants of the key for the door, so there was a good chance that your key would work with someone else's Morris. This, given that they were pretty popular and all the same colour, meant that quite often people drove someone else's car home by mistake from places where a bunch of them were parked side by side ( N.B.: this story may be apocryphal).

My sister had this before me and had it refurbed and painted red. It needs another refurb but I haven't got around to it yet. Mostly because I don't drive.

Roy x Cone x Morris Minor fit:

A version of the first shot where you can see a bit more of the car:

More later in the week including exclusive high-tech shots of my eyeballs whilst wearing the Roy x Cones. I bet you can't wait!