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England mate. Sorry to hear you had to escape the Paris heat. The average temp over years in San Sebastián is good in summer but they have also faced heat waves - a few months ago it was double average temp at 40C. The UK is going through our 5th heatwave this year which is a bad joke too.

OK folks the results are in as promised... The Pre-amble In numbers 26 Sufu'ers started on the #WoMCon journey 18 months ago Wearing 5 different jeans All made by 1 man - Simone - a top-notch maker based in Rome, Italy 16 participants made final submissions With 2 sets of prizes - best jeans voted for by 8 judges and best posts voted for by 3 judges Massive thank you to Simone for the jeans and the prizes @beautiful_FrEaK from the original seed through his ‘testing’ of Simone’s jeans to the close out @Duke Mantee for the Duke Mantee Prize of a leather mini trucker wallet Everyone who participated, joined in, cheered along, clicked and judged And anything I’ve inadvertently missed!! Long live Superfuture Superdenim! The Results Congratulations gents! Best Jeans @Jared_Lee - Free WWII Type-1 Jkt from Simo @nopal - Free pair of jeans from Simo @CSL - 40% discount on a new order @ATWM @julian-wolf - 40% discount on a new order The Duke Mantee Prize Winner: @julian-wolf - a mini trucker wallet @julian-wolf if you DM me your address, I'll post it out, on me The Details For transparency, please see a cut-and-paste of the results spreadsheet below. I've anonymised the judges as I never asked if they were OK with including their voting. and that's a wrap folks! … it's over to Broark who is finalising options for the next one!!

Hey mate... it's a really lovely place. Well worth a visit. It has 3 really good beaches, one called Zurriola for the surfers with a place called Gros nearby with that surfy vibe (albeit small scale), the main bay and promenade called Kotxa is the busier and a third called Ondaretta which is nice and quiet-ish with some Eduardo Chillida sculptures looking over it. Interestingly he was originally a goalkeeper for Real Sociedad the local team. Good food - lots of pintxos (tapas) in the Old Town especially, so you can walk easily from bar to bar, eating as you go. As @PBTony said the are famous for Basque cheesecake, defo worth a try. Loads of places to eat with good food. Though I would say the cuisine is not as diverse as other cities, even compared to where I live up north. There's a nice vibe and energy to the place, and enough going on to mooch around and keep you busy enjoying the buzz of the city. Underlying, there's a spirit of independence in the region, hence their fervent support of similar more challenging causes worldwide. We stayed about a 25 min walk from the centre, but it's a nice walk in along the rivers which splits the city and gives you a variety of bridges to walk over to get around the place. Good temperature too for Europe in summer... usually in July / August it's 20-25C and luckily it was when we were there. Barring the heatwaves we're all seeing - and struggling with. We went to Bilbao area after San Sebastian... spent more time on the beach - again a good vibe all round.

San Sebastián, Basque Country slide show 😎

^ if it's the LH7 denim, then in my short experience, it's pretty stretchy...

They'd be great jeans for it, but, even if it got the vote, we won't find 20 pairs unfortunately... but it's a great idea to start wearing the pairs on ice and posting them here 👍

@Broark looking good Austin... a personal creation from a new maker is nice to see imo... more power to your elbow, keep 'em coming!! I've got some wonky stuff (some of it's not even deliberate!!) and non-wonky stuff and Mavis on the checkout at Tesco doesn't even spot the difference

Buaisou / Freewheelers / Anonymous Ism / Birks

@Muddy not a brand we see much of here but these Kaptain Sunshine look a good candidate

@Muddy if you can find them, probably on Japanese auction sites, some of the Canes M series models have that silhouette but be sure to check the actual measurements. I can comment on these 3 which I have... in order of most roomy first M41030 - a 30s-esque model - I'm wearing these today, loads of leg space M41051 - mid 30s Lee M41001 - a late 40s, early 50s cut More info in the M-series thread...

^ judge please and, because @beautiful_FrEaK and I are also in the contest and need to avoid any calls of conflicts of interest (there won't be any), just to watch over the totalling up of the scoring please mate... it'll all be simples, all being well... eskerrik asko Doc

Dear Judges (below), *** The deadline for voting is this Sunday 9th August *** For those who have already voted - thank you For those who haven't yet voted - thank you. Please send your 1,2, 3 to me, @beautiful_FrEaK and adjudicator @Dr_Heech Judges: @Maynard Friedman @Bobbo @chicote @Double 0 Soul @Dr_Heech @Duke Mantee @Flash @oomslokop Simone @smoothsailor Eskerrik Asko (when in the Basque country)👍

More brown-ish hues coming out on this Stole Pocket Butterfly Chestnut Dyed shirt… but depending on how the light catches it, that changes and could be gray… really nice and different

^ yeah… well spotted… a lovely place

Sassafras / Whitesville / Canes / Russell Mocs / RMC, Ace and Tate not visible

Hahaha it transpires I expired (or to be accurate my subscription did)… cheers lads for pointing that out … Coincidentally… I renewed my blue tick as my lad just got a blue top from the local team… go Real Sociedad

@superfuture thanks… the site seems to be moving ok now… I noticed the rep button showing who has repped ain’t working now, at least for me…

@GF305 Welcome… … that’s some shrink on the LH… what denim? I got this on w36 in the LH7 denim, wide WW2 fit Raw - 30C wash 800 spin measured wet, hang dry - after about 7 days wear Waist 45 - 44 - 45.5 FR 34 - 32.5 - 33 BR 45.5 - 43 - 46 Thigh 37 - 34.5 - 35 Inside leg 85 - 80 Hem 25 - 24

@Broark x-posting it here for consideration I like the idea of having a contest objective of ‘keeping Sufu alive’ as per @superfuture’s post… one for a collective brainstorming on how we can best achieve that, so we can build the measures in when designing the contest mechanics

In the next contest, we could have all blue tick members and mods (apart from those competing) being the eligible voters… long live Sufu!!

@mlwdp high time for your new Phigvel thread mate

Tender / Tezomeya / Canes / Russell Mocs / @Duke Mantee… 3am eternal 🥱

@Dr_Heech hahahaha... send me your address, I'll post it to you approximately September 2046 by when I should have read it

@Well27 looks like good fun... was the beach near Aarhus too?

I place this little denim escapism in perspective of the fecking busy lives many of us lead - raising families from birth to adult and all of the enjoyable time commitments that entails, education, working to put bread on the table, a roof over heads and denim on the legs, working on physical and mental health (now we can say that out loud) and life coming full circle to increasingly, with age, caring for our own parents in their dotage, plus a myriad of trials and tribulations simply too expansive to list here, means, like many, I have a reading list, all of which I plan to get to at some point, that may or may not enrich my knowledge of this little denim escapism, but on the pecking order of important things it most often aint near the top yet... but being on the list is good planning in the event some space opens up and keeps my bookshelves looking decent at least...