Cold Summer

Deluxeware thermal tee, Flat Head jacquard sweater, Flat Head 3003xx, Wesco Mister Lou

Awesome jacket! I much prefer the Storm Rider design to the more common Type III. From looking at TFH's product page it looks like it's made from the same left-hand twill Zimbabwe denim as Young's jeans posted above.

Flat Head denim shirt / Flat Head single riders jacket / Buzz Rickson 1930s chinos / Hollows Rail belt / Wesco Mister Lou

Freenote flannel, Warehouse x Rocky Mountain down vest, Flat Head 3003xx, John Lofgren Steadfast boots

I get that, I usually just make one mug of coffee per day (usually 21g coffee/340 ml of water) and that hits the sweet spot for me. I used to drink two or three mugs per day but I had the same issue with feeling anxious and weird.

Flat Head merino scarf, 3Sixteen crosscut shirt, Real McCoy’s A-2 jacket, Porter Yoshida shoulder bag, Stevenson trousers, Viberg service boots

I'm a bit of a coffee nerd. I brew mostly with a Hario V60 but sometimes Chemex, using a Fellow Stagg kettle and a 1ZPresso K-Max grinder. It's a pretty simple setup, but gets tasty results without much effort. Thank goodness I've never been particularly into espresso. My go-to roasters here on the east coast US are George Howell (Boston) and Black And White (North Carolina.) Currently drinking Howell's Dota, a Costa Rican light roast I've gone back to over and over. I tend to prefer washed or natural process coffees with some combination of chocolatey, berry, or wine flavor notes. I'm not a big fan of the various wacky and weird anaerobic process flavors that are in vogue for the last few years, to me this is like the coffee equivalent of 25 oz hyper-slub rainbow weft gimmick denim.

Freenote flannel, Flat Head jacket, Flat Head 3003xx, Wesco Mister Lou

Strike Gold flannel Flat Head 6002W jacket Buzz Rickson 1930s chinos Hollows Rail belt Wesco 7500

Heh. I bought a pair of Wesco 7500 in 2019, they're very well stitched and have no particular cosmetic issues. My Mister Lou boots I bought in mid 2023 are comparatively sloppy, by far most noticeable on the stitchdown stitching. I found the uneven SPI so irritating that I ended up using black shoe polish to black out those white stitches, now the irregularity is practically invisible and I'm much happier with them, which is nice since beside that sloppy stitchdown work I love everything about the boots. That seems pretty minor compared to the disparity above.

Different category of clothing, but I like my Deluxeware thermal tees. Very solid and well made, for a good price. The garment quality and vibe reminds me of Flat Head, which is always a good thing.

I'm interested in getting a green jacket. I'm looking at styles including the M-65 1st, like those made by RMC and Buzz Rickson, as well as the Runabout Overland jacket. I'd love more suggestions, especially if it's something I could plausibly find on Yahoo Auctions or Mercari for a good deal. Thanks!

Flat Head snow zip sweatshirt, Deluxeware thermal tee, Flat Head 3003xx, John Lofgren Steadfast boots

3Sixteen cotton/linen crosscut shirt Porter Yoshida shoulder bag Hollows Rail belt Flat Head 3003xx Wesco Mister Lou

I think it's just the lighting, but the shirt's color may be slightly more purple-y than the average blue chambray. Cheers!

Been a while since I posted a fit, here’s one from yesterday. The Viberg boots are new and I’m seriously liking them. Flat Head chambray western shirt Real McCoys A-2 jacket Sid Mashburn bridle belt Buzz Rickson 1930s chinos Viberg Service Boots

Here’s my dad and myself, December 1989. He appears to be doing some work on the front door frame in a well faded pair of 501s. Good fit on these.

The new Late 40s jeans look great. Is it the same denim as the other 40s jeans? I've never been real crazy about how that denim faded, based on most of the examples I've seen, but some of that could be chalked up preferences in washing frequency.

I get that, but I always read that as sort of tongue-in-cheek ribbing, which to me at least is all in good fun. They call us uncouth mouth-breathing burger-chompers, we call them cheese-eating surrender monkeys, everybody has a good laugh and goes home at the end of the day. Or something like that. 100%. America is really more like an empire of a centralized government sometimes strongly, sometimes loosely uniting various disparate nations and cultures within its borders. Early in the nation's history this was all a lot less defined, but since the end of the Civil War, for better or worse, the Empire model won out. A united political entity in the borders of what we call the USA has made a lot of us pretty wealthy and comfortable by historical standards, but oftentimes at the expense of factors that can't be so readily quantified, like community and cultural cohesion. Plenty of interesting questions to consider surrounding it all.

I saw that before I made my post, but my eyes must be failing me because I thought LazyS's arcs were stitched rather than painted 😅

I'm sure this has been brought up at some point before, but... anybody ever hand-paint arcs/anything else on their jeans?! I love the painted arcs on my Flat Head 3003xx, and I could see myself wanting to re-paint/touch them up as they wear away. What kind of paint do you use? Any particular techniques? My wife has a Cricut so it seems like it'd be easy to make a stencil/template at home and just paint that, but I wondered if any of y'all have done something like this recently.

@AlientoyWorkmachineI basically spent my childhood in Texas but moved to north Georgia when I was eleven, and I've been here ever since, excepting the several years I spent in Japan. So this probably explains why I'm not necessarily/especially what one might consider "Texan" in his behavior/outlook (though I am a big fan of the western style, so I guess there's that?) Living here for a long time, I suppose I tend to identify more at this point with some aspect of the local culture. Economic decay and opioid addiction, amongst other things, has really taken a toll on the South, what lower-class people really need are good blue-collar jobs and a sense of purpose, and unfortunately there's less to go around than before. So... I guess that means we gotta make the Toyo Enterprises equivalent for Dixie in Alabama, or something like that?!

The Dixie/Southeastern perspective is more complex than the popular caricature of angry rednecks shooting at stuff. There's definitely some truth to the stereotype, but it's more nuanced than you might expect. I'll try my best to give some kind of insight. I'm originally from Houston, TX, very different mid/southwestern culture that probably has more in common with Ohio than Alabama. And where I live in Georgia is right on the border of Dixie culture and Appalachia, which is itself a very distinct culture which nevertheless has some overlap with Dixie. I'm much more at home in Appalachian culture and identify much more strongly with it. Appalachia is characterized by cultural things like bluegrass music and the seemingly-contradictory fiercely independent and self sufficient, yet intricately intertwined community and family life. Appalachia is Scots-Irish, which goes a long way toward explaining this sort of cultural character. Dixie on the other hand is really encapsulated by things like college football mania, where your allegiance to the University of Alabama or Auburn and so on is a sort of tribal identity, and there's this very stratified, almost pseudo-aristocratic social environment imported from England and still ensconced in the cultural unconscious. And the gun-totin' rednecks... are at the bottom of that hierarchy. The (white) people at the bottom can be hostile toward blacks, for instance, because they might feel threatened by the only ones lower on the totem pole than them who might snatch what little honor and pride they have for themselves. And between being on the losing end of the Civil War and bearing the brunt of Reconstruction, the Great Depression, and more, there are generations of grievances and bitterness about things, and a wariness toward outsiders who can come across as carpetbaggers showing up to take what little scraps they proudly cling to as their own. Dixie people, especially those on the poorer and rural end of things, often feel like they're been under attack for over 150 years. And that is why it could be hard to convince Dixie locals to let you pick through their abandoned buildings. As much as I'd love to collect cool vintage loot, I definitely sympathize with where reticent locals are coming from, even if I don't necessarily agree.

Not sure what the best place to post this is, but I saw this cool video about hunting for vintage clothing in the southeast US. I live in this region and it's always something I've wondered about, so it was fascinating getting a bit of insight into this question. Long story short, there is probably quite a bit of vintage loot hidden away in closed stores and buildings, but compared to abandoned farm houses in Idaho or California there's a much greater risk of a pissed-off owner or neighbor shooting you for trespassing. On the other hand, I'm only about three hours away from JR's Western World, so, uh, maybe I should take a trip there sometime?!

That's interesting. I've sold dozens of things on Grailed since 2015 or so and I can't remember ever getting any scam/phishing inquiries like that.