Maynard Friedman

As enthusiastic and knowledgeable as the good folk here on Sufu are over their jeans, I don’t think a switch from one cotton to another directly influenced their loss of interest in Skull. I think it was more to do with Self Edge dropping Skull from its line-up, which may have been due to QC issues (which may also have included the cotton switch).

I’ve never paid them much attention in the past but just had a look and they seem like something Patsy and Edina would wear in Absolutely Fabulous.

I’d take the APC over that Full Count one any day.

Jamaican Black Castor Oil

I used to have a Siemens SL55 slide phone about 20 years ago. It could fit into a decent sized coin pocket on jeans. I should’ve kept it as they’re going for about £300 on eBay.

There were 2 pairs up there a couple of weeks ago!

Smaller phones are the way to go but perhaps this could be like the recent car size debate all over again!

It reminds me of some of the older Self Edge website pictures where the fit looks great in a photo but may be impractical or even slightly uncomfortable to wear once you are no longer standing still with your arms by your side and start moving/bending your body, raising your arms, etc…

I totally agree with this, I’m thinking of downsizing to an iPad mini from my current iPhone Max ∞

I’m not certain but I think it isn’t Cone and is from Orta Mills in Turkey

Turkish-made LVC were various washed versions rather than raw and for some reason, were sized a bit differently as far as I’m aware. I think the sanforized 1967 zip model also may have been manufactured there.

^Period correct I believe

SExSC06

Great post Neal, it’s always interesting to hear people’s selvedge denim origin stories and also to see your raw SC collection posted in all its glory. I’ll remain on the lookout for you 👀

Ran out of steam…

@paulm those Studio D’artisan’s look like the SD-101 to me, or possibly even the SD-102.

The cinch is very low on that pair, almost like Lee 101B.

@Newman - they’re the Duckdigger DD108 - the same as the original Warehouse Warren DD108 (I wore one pair to threads years ago and have another pair squirrelled away). They’re a late 40s cut I believe and made with an oxidised 1000XX denim of about 14-14.5oz that’s supposed to give them some kind of unique, authentic ageing (I don’t think it does). They’re from around 2007 and Warehouse produced them after the Levi’s lawsuit when they started to move away from strict repros with red tabs and Levi’s style arcs (yours have the lasso loops) and before they moved back in that direction again. I hope that’s useful, you can find a bit more information in this thread or via a Google search and also some old Lighting magazines. They’re great jeans, well done on the (re)discovery!

Hard wearing boots for hardware. Give ‘em a good stomping as you walk!

Nice boots Neal, why don’t you wear them anymore?

My older style Full Counts are all W31 L34, none have or had a 32L.

Hi @paulm it’s great to see some of your old (new vintage?) repros here and on some other threads. Have you actually had some of these jeans since they came out in the 90s/00s or are they more recent acquisitions (or a bit of both)?

Is this a synergistic gain or just synergistic cobblers?