Maynard Friedman

^ Tommy Steele

This has become the Full Count Denim Thread Thread.

I’d like to see a few extra rivets dotted around in places they shouldn’t be - and maybe an additional pocket randomly located. Those amateur wartime seamstresses! 😡

Looks like someone has thrown a plate of spaghetti at the model!

I mean ‘Made In California’ or ‘Made in USA’. Perhaps I was confusing it with the ‘SC California’ range as I remember @Double 0 Soul (I think) mentioning a body warmer he bought that had a California label and was made in China, like you just mentioned.

Are the Sugar Cane ‘Made in California’ items a cheaper diffusion range? Does anyone know anything about them or have any experience of them?

^ Blue Harbour or Autograph? 😂

Probably woke up thinking you tried them on and pi55ed yourself in them before passing out.

I’m not sure how old my US-made pair with arcs are but there’s quite a difference in price between them and the new ones.

Just arrived, deadstock one-wash condition. Pictures aren’t great due to poor light.

Oh yes, the potholes too… To make matters worse, many of the Victorian and Edwardian houses have been converted into flats and some of those flats have 2 cars. So outside a house that has space for a single car to park, you may now have 4 cars competing for that space! Modern life certainly has its unique headaches!

Where I live (and in many parts of London) there are speed humps every 50-100 yards so unless you drive at 10mph you risk bottoming out a car with a lower ground clearance. Also, parking is an absolute nightmare (very little off street parking) so a shorter car is more practical to squeeze into parking spaces. As a family of 5 with a dog, we considered an estate but decided a shorter, taller car makes far more sense for us. I agree that width of cars is important though, some of them are becoming ridiculous now, perhaps to accommodate the increasing obesity of the occupants!

Isn’t a Volvo 240 estate quite a big car?

@Broark really started something here… 😆

I like to drive small cars but a psychologist would probably say that I’m just compensating for my huge penis 🍆

If it wasn’t for ULEZ, we’d still have our 2008 diesel Vauxhall Zafira 😂

Not an especially nice thing but with all the car talk, it’s topical so I’ll throw it in… Here’s our new (second hand) petrol Skoda Karoq we bought 2 weeks ago to replace the Mitsubishi Outlander (petrol hybrid) stolen from outside our house earlier this summer. It’s a bit of a relief not driving around with a 230kg battery in the back! With no offstreet parking (for charging) for a house built in 1908, it’s not practical to have an electric vehicle where I live.

There’s plenty of storage room in your new monster truck, I mean, car!

I’d imagine the shrink-stretch factor will be similar to their Cone equivalents, so as long as your pair start at the same size as your US-made counterparts, you should be good.

FAO @Double 0 Soul Synthesiser Revival

More of a denim-related tribute band theme… Simply Red (Tab) The (Vertical) Fall The (Union) Specials The (Denim) Smiths Zodiac Mindwarp (and Weft) Killing Yoke UK Slubs Salt ‘n’ Pepper (chambray) Tailor Swift Bob Dyelan Tone Loc-stitch The Jesus and Mary Chain-stitch

Hank Dye and the Loom Chatterers

I like a basic margherita but tuna, red onion, capers, anchovies and jalapeños are all good, not necessarily all together but generally in some permutation. Olives I can take or leave. Chicken should never be in the same room as a pizza. Interestingly, I’ve often wondered why some Americans call a pizza a ‘pie’ as it really isn’t one and I don’t think it’s referred to as that anywhere else. I googled it and came across this article.

Good spot @Broark, I like them and was interested in them a few years back but not at that price.