Foxy2

^ I feel you

I have yet to try to have things shipped to Moscow from HK or JPN, not sure what they charge or if it will arrive in the first place...

I doubt they could match the overall price on offer via DC4, with hemming, shipping, etc.

Speaking of Take5 - their standard price (including 20% discount as a member) was in the same ball park or lower IIRC. And that is just for the fact alone that shipping cost and customs/taxes in HK are much lower than in Europe via DC4...

Altogether, this is quite entertaining and rather interesting. I would like to know why after weeks of following-up only just now it dawned upon somebody that there are not enought jeans.

I hope that not too many will jump the ship and we find a nice solution. How about a different model? Producing or waiting for a new batch could take rather long, most probably a year.

How about checking with certain stores on existing supply?

I would think between Take5 and some rakuten stores the problem could be solved...

So in all the examples the buttons are on the outside, does anyone wear them on the inside? I enjoy the look but the misses "despises" the buttons on the outside.

On tailored suits you wear the back inside and the front outside.

With sewn-on buttons you can wear them inside without injuringing yourself...

bought a pair for my dad a while ago. i thought there were rather nice, so i had go back for a pair of my own.

local store in berlin focusing on nice, but standard belts. seems like they are outsourcing the elastic and the hardware for the braces, but the leather straps/ears are crafted in their own workshop.

clip-on buttons are included as per picture...

Germany, but put me down as Moscow, Russian Federation (or simply Russia) - as this is where I live and work for the next 3 years (or longer...)

There are some denim heads here too, but it mostly ends with LVC and Edwin - the rest is ether too expensive/elusive or not expensive/exclusive enough. Need to explore the scene here, just hadn't had enough time, yet.

All the big, commercial denim factories are in south-west of china. About 60-70% of the global production finds their way through China at one point, but you probably don't want to go there. Nothing to see but pollution and ugly washed jeans.

Besides a few stores in Beijing and Hong Kong, you should check out Red Cloud Jeans (see thread in superdenim). Try to get in touch with them through their blog (mentioned somewhere in the thread) and maybe they let you see their workshop and source base...

ok, thanks man, I thought Ai dyed meant hank/hand dyed yarn with natural indigo vs rope dyed/machine dyed yarns twisted together into a rope even if with natural indigo. BIG lists the d-1507 as hand dyed to the core with natural indigo and they sure are priced like it. Somewhat confused to say the least!

My 2 cents:

Fabrics and garments can be colored and dyed in various ways:

- yarn colored (man-made fibers will have added dye stuff added as part of the spinning process)

- yarn dyed (finished/semi-finished yarns will be dipped in dye stuff baths)

- fabric dyed (finished/semi-finished fabrics will be dipped in dye stuff baths)

- printed fabrics...

- garment dyed (finished, whole garments will be dipped in dye stuff baths)

- printed garment (finished, whole garments will printed - mostly partial prints...)

All of the above methods but yarn colored can be executed manually, machine supported or fully automated through machines.

AI foremost stands for the usage of natural indigo as dye stuff (vs. synthetic, pure indigo) and small scale, artisanal production/manufacturing. In many cultures the dye process is (or can be, if desired,) still fully manual. Modern indigo masters will operated fully machine supported.

Shouldn't be "Bild am Sonntag"? This would give this contest the extra edge!

Not sure where I will be when it starts but I will go for "BZ", "Pravda" (or some Moscow yellow press), something cheesy from Portland or the odd, exotic Mexican equivalent...

ai- all natural indigo dye ranon

xx is just the way pbj classify their jeans.

stock- I have no clue.

Foxy, how are your ai-002 doing? It seems I am the only one posting pics on some ai. Starting to feel very lonely.

Stock means I currently keep them as stock - when I get old and fat (fatter) I might put them on...

Actually, I'm wearing them AI's right now - if only I could figure out how to post iPhone pics!

^^

thanks for the info. i meant (xx) as in "xx" denoting a number he leaves at the end of each pair, not just for PBJ models...

This is indicating the pairs in actual rotation - of some sort...

yeah you miss some Evisu, serious denime and fullcount there.

I had a few non-Japan Evisu's (fake and real) previously - my Warehouse I have given to a good friend (still keeping an eye out for a future pair to catch my attention)...

Well, I have a problem. So much for sure...

And there is still so much stuff out here I want, it just doesn't make sense anymore. Maybe I need to clean up my act like my wife says!

dry bones - "guitar wolf"

cdp-555 w32 (1)

r.j.b. (real japan blues)/the flat head (tfh)/take5

d105s-10fw w31 (2)

tfh 3005-a (ai) w32 (3)

tr-010 w31 (4)

tr-010 w32 stock

samurai 

s0110xj w33 (5)

s510ai-ogsp w31 (6)

s510ai-ogsp w32 stock

real mccoy / joe mccoy

s613 w32 (7)

901 w31 (8)

901 w31 stock

iron heart (ih)/take5

iht510 w32 (9)

ih-634s w33 stock

pure blue japan (pbj)/take5

tpj-510 w31  (10)

tpj-510 w33 (11)

ai-002 w32 (12)

xx-010 w32 (13)

studio d'artisan (sda)/take5

sd-d01 w32 (14)

sd-sp-06 (ai) w32 (15)

sd-sp-06 (ai) w33 stock

take5-010 w33 (16)

take5-010 w34 stock

sd-103xx (ai) w31 stock

sugarcane (sc)

sc4040 w31 (ai) (17)

sc4040 w32 (ai) stock

warehouse/heller's cafe

hc-035 w31 (18)

lee - gold label

101b w30 (19)

101b w31 stock

(not mentioned here are 4 pairs of Red Cloud, a pair of Y3 and all the pairs of LVC's and other jeans that I don't own anymore...)

Welcome on board! May the proceeding begin soon...

Will also keep an eye out.

Not that I need another pair, but if the price is right I might not be able to resist...

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Interesting detail: there's an extra stitch in addition to the chainstitch on the inseam. First time I've seen this before. Anyone know the reason for this?

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That's because they are top stitched on the inseam. You see the overlock on the seam allowance, you have the the actual seam closed with another stitch and then you have the top stitching. If you turn it on the right side you'll notice the top stitching clearly.

Finally managed to register - after almost 2 years of fruitless attempts and no replies...

Can't hardly wait to get this going. Hopefully, this year!