entertainment!

^I know, the irony isn't lost on me. My last truck was a F150, but my company now uses Toyota vehicles only, and so...

Anyway, Made in Japan is a close runner up for me to Made in America.

Anyway, hasn't Toyota been running an ad claiming that a greater percentage of the parts and labor in their trucks is from the United States than in Ford trucks?

My interest in Hawksmoor is more from the architectural side than from the literary one. I was thinking that the connection between Hawksmoor churches and the Roys is that they are both extremely original takes on historic forms. I will have to take a look at From Hell. There is an early Iain Sinclair book on the East End churches called Lud Heat that seems to have stirred up the masonic interpretation. Then Peter Ackroyd published Hawksmoor and pushed it a lot further. It is all very interesting, but I don't think much is based on fact. Bu the churches are quite evocative and strange, so it isn't surprising that this approach has been taken.

Those Nicholas Hawksmoor churches in the East End are amazing. I can't help imagining he would have appreciated the details on the RXCs.

Link to the benny hill lady pur-leese !

Also, talking of overpriced!! -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEVI-BIG-E-551ZXX-jeans-LVC-551-ZXX-501XX-501ZXX-1963-/120675929435?pt=Fr_YO_Vetements_Hommes&hash=item1c18d88d5b

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Soon they will be making reproductions of vintage reproductions since the reproductions of vintage jeans will be too expensive for normal people to buy: Reproduction perfect in all details of the 555 551zx from 1999 which was a reproduction of a 551zx from the the sixties.

First signs of wear.

Wow Mike,

you are a top class bloke and your love of what you do and the results that you post here are easily the best reason for being a denim-nut on sufu.

I applaud you sir.

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Amen!

I hope your series of books can take the story of Levi's and jeans up through the 1970s, even if it is the really old stuff that you are most interested in.

Can't wait to see that patch after it dries.

I am still hoping that you will have a book signing on the east coast so I can finally meet you! Or I guess I will have to come out to LA.

Great fit Paul! Must spread. Mine are still as stiff as hell after three weeks.

Mike, great photos. How do any of us who don't have access to a mine have any chance of winning?

^That's just beautiful.

mikecch, how exactly did you treat your Quercus belt?

Thanks for all your posts. I don't know what this thread would do without you.

Just got my belt today, Zissou. It looks great . The buckle choice was an inspiration.

My 700J seems to be close to Aho's pair. The wash was pretty intense although the denim is still quite dark. The model number and size info on the patch are illegible. There are also some yarn breaks near the back seam under the yoke. Still, they fit quite well and I am inclined to keep them. But now I know why I always buy raw.

I always thought the Royal Mail was great compared to the United States Postal Service. When I lived in London, there were two deliveries per day, which I found amazing. I am guessing that is a thing of the past.

Outgoing mail from England always seems to come quickly compared to other parts of the EC. Sorry mail coming into England isn't the same. I can't believe UK customs charges a handling fee, too.

Hope your jeans come soon, Paul.

^You are a fucking lucky nephew.

I ordered 34 and got a 36 presoak, but erk ordered a 35 and seemed to get the same size.

My advice is to never buy LVC unless you can get actual measurements or try them on. Otherwise your jeans are likely to be headed to the supermarket.

Watch out rnr, Levi's is going to sue you over those pocket arcuates.

That looks great.

BTW, future rnr got drunk and traded it for a bottle of soco, so enjoy it while you have it.

erk, maybe you can sell those 55s with loomchatter for a premium in the supermarket.

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1955 Sawtooth Denim Shirt

The button spacing on the placket has always struck me as strange on these. In all the photos of vintage ones that I have seen, the snaps are much closer together.

I bought and returned the Heller's Cafe salt and pepper cardigan from J Crew. It was cotton, not wool as it was described on the site (I suspected as much from the pictures) and the M fit like a L or XL. Nice but not worth $300 imo.

The type I that I saw was $350. I doubt the type II would be cheaper. That's pretty steep.

Those repros that oi polloi is selling make sense of the stamps that LVC is putting on the pocket bags. There had to be a simple way to distinguish the two lines.

aho, thanks for posting the j crew link. I bought a 34x34 pair. I think this was your sureptitious way of trying to distract me from the Roy x Cone contest.

Jackets are at present made in TUrkey, altho bit by bit they're trying to move more production to the US.

I saw a Type I jacket at the NYC store in the Meatpacking District. It was made in the USA and I was told it was new production, so the shift is already happening. The weird thing is that the 505 jeans were made in the USA until quite recently. Strange that they would shift production to Turkey just as they move other production back to the USA.

^^Best Roy fit I've seen!

^I am planning to do 3x denim for my next RoyxCone pic including the buckleback 101J and a Lee denim shirt that I think is from the 70s. I'm sure you would know the era, Dr Heech. I will have to post a picture of the label. Definitely R/MR though.

The jacket and the jeans both look great Fardin.

^I have been watching them with my five year old daughter who loves them, and I get to look at the vintage workwear. Though we do skip the one where all the kids put on black face to perform Uncle Tom's Cabin.