el padre

@Spiraltoy all the best with the covid. Hope you sail through easily. Also you wanna be careful posting repair pics like that, I'll be sending my jeans in to you next!

@Jared_Lee appreciate the comparisons! The 40s make the 50s look lowrise :-) Did you take the same size in both?

@Uncle Karl that looks like a lovely place! Well done for your work.

It's best that your jeans don't change much now, they look great!

Oh man that's not so good @volvo240thebest. All the best to you and your family, hope things get better for you soon!

2 hours ago, Hopethisoneisnttaken said:

 

I thought I’d post an update. Just finished drying in the sun after the monthly machine wash. 

 

These are looking great!

6 hours ago, Jared_Lee said:

Both of these things are noticeably true. The '50s is easily an inch lower front and back (didn't check the size charts, just going off feel from spending a lot of time in both). The back pockets are also somewhere in the ballpark of 15% larger.

Thanks! Much appreciated. (Except by my wallet, which is gonna take another hit I guess)

6 hours ago, Jared_Lee said:

At month 6, wearing them on average 6 days per week, the fabric just takes off.

Yeah this is so true!

1 hour ago, Broark said:

@el padre I feel similarly, I love these when they're fresh out of the washer/dryer but after a day on the legs they sag a ridiculous amount.
Because of this I have started wearing other jeans more regularly. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm coping fine with mine cos I don't have to look at my butt. Apologies to everyone else who does.

I'm actually liking the jeans enough to want the 50s... Provided the rise is a little lower and the back pockets a little bigger maybe?

17 hours ago, Toegun said:

I’ll admit I prefer the snugness when it’s freshly washed:

I love the fit except... i can't get on with the ass. When it's freshly washed I feel like the pockets are in the small of my back and then after a day or so they get back to normal but my butt drops halfway down my legs 

Or at least that's what I think, doubt anyone else ever notices (or wants to look in that direction even)

Dog walking stuff

Tender, TCB 40s

17 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Wrangler customers have swung towards the republican party in large numbers whereas Levi's customers are solid democrats.. The shift being the result of socio-geographic changes, mostly found in the midwest where peeps tend to favor Wrangler’s cowboy image

Republicans switching to wrangler was maybe initially a way of expressing allegiance during Bush Jr's presidency 

13 hours ago, CSL said:

Let's go a step further --- 

Next purchase:

12 minutes ago, Duke Mantee said:

@CSL - had to look twice to find you in that pic Carl 

:-)

 @CSL maybe a white belt, olive momotaro jacket and a denim cap for complete camouflage there?

1 hour ago, cultpop 0217 said:

Great photo and great fit. Jeans have that perfect iconic shape and I love the leg twist and rr tracks. 

And that jacket will look even more amazing with a few years on it. 

Plus a cute pooch. 

Thanks! Much appreciated. Yeah the dog is one special fella. A healthier obsession than expensive denim maybe, even if only cos he needs lots of exercise :-)

(Although at least my jeans don't wake me up to take a pee at 4am)

8 hours ago, youngofthesoonest said:

Testicles are useless to me outside the house so i generally leave them at home

I pop mine in a trucker wallet and fetch them along just in case 

Helps remind me not to sit on them 

2 minutes ago, el padre said:

I look forward to paying through the nose for an authentic repro of a 2002 Second Life avatar, that's been lovingly recreated on one of the three remaining Pentium 4s that can still boot up.

Sick fadez tho! It's not all bad in the future.

2 hours ago, Maynard Friedman said:

Wait until you ‘upgrade’ yourself to a digital avatar, you won’t need anything at all then, not even nice jeans 

I look forward to paying through the nose for an authentic repro of a 2002 Second Life avatar, that's been lovingly recreated on one of the three remaining Pentium 4s that can still boot up.

@bartlebyyphonics great set of photos, thank you! I love looking at denim.

@Paul T massive respect for you teachers! But less so for you shedding your muffin top. Mine has gone in the other direction. I blame lockdown but I think we all know I'd have expanded just the same without a pandemic...

Time for some ongoing maintenance:

Making a right hash of this. The needle is currently MIA as a result of pausing for a photoshoot. I have another needle but I don't want to risk pulling the jeans back on until I know the first one isn't hiding in there 

11 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

^wtf! there's even mention of 'Geordie Jeans, The Cleveland Centre, Middlesbrough'

I thought this was a Vic & Bob creation rather than a genuine shop

That's hillarious

Somewhere at my parents house there's a picture of me in actual Geordie Jeans 

WAYWT '84