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Little Hand tux / Converse Timeline

OK then... some before and after washing shots...I could have gone with a size smaller waist and jacket but I have many that sized 'fit' already. Jeans are super comfy and jacket has space for layers so all good. I can post measurements later for completeness Before - Raw before washing After washing (Edit. I've since done a 60C wash which has 'tightened' the jacket up a touch)

@beautiful_FrEaK that's outrageous dressing

RIP Nigel Cabourn

@julian-wolf brilliant... congratulations and best wishes to you both for the future!

@Dr_Heech which year Doc - 43 or 45 😉😂... will take some side by side pics soon mate

... and the jacket...

OK, onto the denim… The glitch edition WW2 set up took my eye, so I pinged Little Hand on Instagram and had some real-time back and forth banter before ordering it. It uses his LH7 WW2 denim which is 13.5oz, 14.5oz post wash. I went large for this one – W36 jeans which shrink down to cW34, and a size 48 jacket as I want to wear layers underneath it and didn’t want to risk the size 46 given the pattern unknowns with any new maker. It turns out a 46 would have worked really well, but I’m cool with a spacious 48 too. Little Hand will do custom lengths so I went for inside leg of 80cm and 61cm jacket length post-wash. Both came in bang-on target… and he chopped off all the loose ‘glitch’ threads on the jacket for me too Great service from Yuki throughout – responsive, helpful, really easy to deal with and good English comms. Anyway, enough words… here’s some pictures…

I treated myself to a new tux from Little Hand - aka Yuki Murase – so it made sense to open a new thread. There has been some chit-chat about Little Hand before elsewhere so he’s not new to Sufu. I won’t repeat the information already online… see IG and online store. In Little Hand's own words... “We make denim products by hand using vintage sewing machines. I just love old things, so I make them on a vintage sewing machine! It's all my own style! I’ve never taken any lessons or been taught by anyone, so I just make things however I like! We enjoy making them, and we hope you enjoy wearing them” … which all sound good to me... Yuki hadn’t heard of Sufu before, but he has now…

@smoothsailor Duffer of St George... now there's a good blast from the past... have you had it a long time? I used to buy quite a bit of Duffer in the late 80s, early 90s from a shop called Hip in Leeds, in the old days of brick and mortar stores... wish I'd kept it...

Sassafras / SCSC 43 / Samurai / Warehouse / Whitesville, Rototo not visible

Are you sure you three lads haven't been sizing down 2 sizes... like old Sufu dayz... and it was really the force of your constrained body mass that popped the hardware??? All jeans have limits lads 😆

^ your OCD levels seem to be dropping over time Neal 😆

The three amigos... left to right... 161 - 147 - 162

SCSC 43

SCSC 43 tux / Converse

Same on the 43s

Freewheelers 30s tux / Tezomeya / Birks

@indigoeagle thanks for this ^. I find OW to be quite industrial for many brands i.e. very hot wash and hot dry, perhaps to shrink more-or-less to the max. I'd prefer to have raw so I can play with the wash temperature to get the right shrink (and occasionally totally screw it up). Agreeing the 46 looks quite long, and the 44 narrow in the chest... 59cm hmmmm. My '37 jacket came OW in size 44 and I thought feck this will not work... but it stretched out and works nicely. Depends on the denim I suppose and the arm hole size and and and... For shorter war-time jackets, the Sugar Cane Super Collectibles hit the mark

I'm expecting the size 44 to end up about 60 pit to pit and 61 length, so quite boxy... but let's see when it lands Agree the FW 44-45 is longer than most. However, my SCSC 43 and 45 are both 60/61 length though. I'll post measurements before and after washing when it lands - probably when the 41 jeans come through Edit - the '41 jacket size is supposed to be between the '33 and '42 models... time will tell

At Last 147 set up / Buaisou / New Balance / Rototo, ELMC, American Optical not visible

506XX 1941, new denim, non-wash... which I much prefer as I have at least some control over how much to shrink it. Jeans to follow next month I hear

A civilised evening, wearing corduroy, seeing and hearing Bassekou Kouyate and Amy Sacko playing traditional Mali griot music from as far back as the 13th Century... why not I say Bassekou on the ngoni - a little 4-string harp; Amy with great vocals; all in French so hardly understand a word, as O Level French was a lifetime ago, but I got the vibes... with some Mali blues to boot... enjoyed it

@PartTimeBarista happy days in the baby bubble... enjoy

Nice jeans... will be interesting to see how that denim develops... I have the Ooe vest in the same denim but no evo yet either... anyone got any worn examples? There might be a option to send your jeans to Shred who might be willing to accelerate the process... I really don't know... you'd need to ask him 😉😁