Maynard Friedman

For non or low alcohol beers (well lager), I like Lucky Saint and Peroni. Big Drop also do a wide selection, I particularly like their pale ale. Unfortunately much of the no/low alcohol market seems very sugary and calorific.

Your back pockets look a bit blurry and slightly different to how they look in a different thread! 🤔 Other than that, I think they may look better with a longer leg/lower cuff.

Go on then @Superstar. They look great already so I’d be interested to see what another 5 years has done to them (as long as they haven’t been hanging in a wardrobe all that time).

The flannel pockets look similar to those on the Sugar Cane slack denim. I’ll have to pull my pair out from the (still yet to be worn stash) and compare them.

2 hours ago, beautiful_FrEaK said:

In case you wondered which mill produces the denim for Sugarcane (at least their 47 denim and the new 43 and 46 denim).

It's Nihon Menpu

https://youtu.be/unmyU-TSo2U?feature=shared

I think they produce all of Sugar Cane’s denim. Paul T wrote about this in his Loomstate blog years ago.

2 hours ago, jsky808080 said:

Thanks! Did that, but need to get them to shrink more if possible. Funnily - the Denime 221 looks more like a 50s Jean on me, and the 221 seem bigger all over than the SC1947 on me- wear a 32w in both. Thighs on the Denim a lot bigger as well and I have a lot of fabric all over to spare. Next time I would consider sizing one down on the Denime 221 to make it look more like a 60s cut. Right now I’m swimming in the 33 a bit, although the waist feels about right at 33w measured now

Do the same again and you’ll be fine. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas denim peeps! 🎅 🎄

Put them in the washing machine at 40°C, with a slow spin and no detergent.

4 minutes ago, vlad_III said:

Those 51s look great!
I’m in between 51 and 47 for my next pair. I think it’s the same fabric. 

The 49s sound like a great compromise! 👍

I prefer the CSFW pair.

On 12/15/2023 at 12:53 PM, Double 0 Soul said:

During lockdown we used to do the shopping for our 103yr old neighbour.. he used to make his own marmalade out of this stuff called Ma Made.. we’d never heard of it.. it was a large tin can of sliced Seville oranges.. he would spoon some out into a pan.. pour on sugar and water.. cook it down and pour it into jars... he ate it every morning on toast.

I saw it in Sainsbury’s yesterday (I’d never heard of it before) on the bottom shelf beneath the Wilkin & Sons, Frank Cooper's, Rose’s, Dalfour and Robertson’s.

You can expand a bit and meet them in the middle

The best place to search for any Iron Heart items is probably the Iron Heart forum’s sales thread. I haven’t been on that forum for a couple of years but if it still exists, that’s likely to be the best source.

I don’t really eat marmalade often but when I do, I like Rose’s lime marmalade, which may be lemon & lime now. Wilkin & Sons is also good.

• Buy Samurai - ultimate jeans!
• Buy Denime - new ultimate jeans!
• Sell Samurai
• Buy Freewheelers - new, new ultimate jeans!
• Sell Denime
• 🤣

Even if other expensive/similarly-priced boots are built from similar, average quality materials, then as far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t justify the price (“they’re charging $X so we will too”). Instead it makes me think there’s a bit of price fixing going on here and I’ll think very carefully before I buy.

¥125k for those 1942s, which are probably the same as their 1937s with minimal tweaks and £425 for these immediately sold-out 1955s with a hand-drawn patch and swing tags. Made in Turkey 🤑🤔

They’re like a Stan Smith/Superstar hybrid.

I’ve seen some of her photos before, my favourite is the kids jumping out of windows of abandoned houses on to piles of mattresses. The sort of thing I used to do with my mates many years ago.

The Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen produced some similar photos around the North-east from the late 60s onwards.

I can remember going into school on the Monday after that show was aired and everyone holding the sides of their neck saying “Sau-sa-ges” 😆

 I reckon @Double 0 Soul probably sounds like Prince’s owner 😆

This sort of thing used to feature heavily in the show too, from Cyril Fletcher’s armchair:

Her daughter lives on my street, she bought the house from some acquaintances of ours.