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Maybe not that exciting, but last weekend was beautiful in Chicago.

Went to the lake front.

Wearing the world tour flat heads... Medine left them with me, so might as well wear them while I figure out where they're supposed to go next.

Cupcakes from Sprinkles. Look like breasts, taste like heaven.

Could be a lot worse. We could have done a Dsquared2 contest:

Cross-posting the 37s from the main thread:

Wow, this day seemed so far off at the beginning of the contest. These jeans have been my constant companion for two years, and now it's time to move on. How weird.

My 37s:

Oh, and how about some action shots from Six Flags Great America:

Let's try the LVCs in a less-common style (for superdenim at least):

Yeah, I'm a little worried about this too, since I have no 14- or 16-month updates.

How many times worn, how many washes? I wear my 37's as hard as I can, those are hard to break in, eh? And yeah, outa rep, sry. They look really nice and authentic. Good to see some natural progress besides all the painted-on lookalike japanese high-contrast stuff.

Thanks! Machine-washed mine about 8 times, and worn maybe 375 times. There were a couple months in there of hard wear (with some permanent marks to show for it), but those were sandwiched between long periods of not doing much and only getting worn a couple times a week.

My LVCs went the the world's largest corn maze! Maybe 10 miles of path on about 33 acres of corn, though we only went through about 4 miles of it.

Not my picture (obviously), but to give you an idea of what we're dealing with:

Punching my card at one of 25 stations scattered throughout the maze:

Piggyback rides:

There's a bunch of other stuff besides corn. Like slides:

And a zip line thing:

Also these gigantic inflatable pillows. It's like an adult-sized bouncey house, but instead of being surrounded by padded walls, there's gravel:

Not many issues so far. I've got a whisker above the pocket that's fixin' to tear, but they could take much more abuse.

This kinda reminded me of Diagon Alley

Nerd alert! Lol.

This is mostly for robbie: update on the status of the berries.

That's right, there's more:

O beautiful for heroes proved!

In liberating strife!

Who more than self their country loved!

And mercy more than life!

AMERICA! AMERICA!

May God thy gold refine!

Till all success be nobleness!

And every gain divine!

continued:

O beautiful for pilgrim feet!

Whose stern impassioned stress!

A thoroughfare of freedom beat!

Across the wilderness!

AMERICA! AMERICA!

God mend thine every flaw,!

Confirm thy soul in self-control!

Thy liberty in law!

Big x-post from LVC contest thread:

It's a hot Independence Day (NB: a black shirt and jeans aren't a good outfit when it's 95°F [35°C] outside). We're celebrating the best way we know how: fireworks! We also picked raspberries, but the only photo evidence I have of that is my red-stained fingers.

In case the state of Illinois asks, this isn't me pictured.

O beautiful for spacious skies!

For amber waves of grain!

For purple mountain majesties!

Above the fruited plain!

AMERICA! AMERICA!

God shed his grace on thee!

And crown thy good with brotherhood!

From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for heroes proved!

In liberating strife!

Who more than self their country loved!

And mercy more than life!

AMERICA! AMERICA!

May God thy gold refine!

Till all success be nobleness!

And every gain divine!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet!

Whose stern impassioned stress!

A thoroughfare of freedom beat!

Across the wilderness!

AMERICA! AMERICA!

God mend thine every flaw,!

Confirm thy soul in self-control!

Thy liberty in law!

Hope I'm still in the race after missing the February, April, and June updates. They're still getting about one day of wear per week at best. So these haven't changed much. But enough excuses!

It's a hot Independence Day (NB: a black shirt and jeans aren't a good outfit when it's 95°F [35°C] outside). We're celebrating the best way we know how: fireworks! We also picked raspberries, but the only photo evidence I have of that is my red-stained fingers.

In case the state of Illinois asks, this isn't me pictured.

O beautiful for spacious skies!

For amber waves of grain!

For purple mountain majesties!

Above the fruited plain!

AMERICA! AMERICA!

God shed his grace on thee!

And crown thy good with brotherhood!

From sea to shining sea!

double post

It seems like just yesterday you were posting the initial fit pics! They're looking real nice. The contrasts are textbook amazing.

I hope it's not TOO too late for New Year's pics. I really need to get the hang of posting this stuff sooner.

WAYWT/overbearingly excited for a tin of cookies:

I thought I had party-proofed the house... I was wrong:

Sorry about the delay on the one-year update for my 37s.

I got a uniform to wear for work, so unfortunately these are no longer seeing daily wear. This is after their last wash. I hope I can find the before-wash pics, as they won't be getting that dirty again in a while.

Can't go though an entire winter without skating at least once!

Not the best pictures, but I only thought to WAYJDT at the very last moment.

I think the ideal is to have only a couple pairs, and beat on one at a time. Then again, I haven't been in the denim game for very long:

APC NC

LVC '37

I'll probably get one more pair, something trimmer than the LVCs and wider than the APCs.

This was a while ago, but I just got a hold of the picture.

What are my jeans doing today? Crawling under the porch stairs and fishing out a decomposing possum. The little guy decided to die in the most difficult area to get to in the house, and he really began to stink. Terribly inconsiderate.

I know, right? Is it just me, or have everyone's jeans had some amazing evolution over the past two months?

The jeans are tagged 32x36, but where I wear them (just above the hips) measures 33". The waist has since stretched out to a comfortable 33.25".