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1950s Champion 'Running Man' Collage Sweat Navy to Purple.. Lovely Fade On This! 50s Fit .. Hem Sits At The Length Of A 506 / 507

Vintage Nike Vintage 1950s Champion 'Running Man' College Sweat SC-47s Nike Elite 78 Repro Lovely Navy to Purple Fade on the Champion.. I Hope I Look This Good When I'm 75yrs Old "What D'Ya Mean.. You Don't Look That Good Now"

We've still got that Marks n' Sparks wardrobe 15yrs later.. i took the shelves out and gave it a coat of Farrow & Ball to make it suitable for a teenager ..although, getting him to sleep in the cot was a bit of a struggle..

My problem is my perfectionist mentality makes me too hypercritical of everything i do.. I know my needle skills suck but if someone else with equally sucky needle skills embroiderd a pattern over a hole for me on a sweater, i'd appreciate their workmaship, because 'they'd' done it... but if i'd done it.. no matter how well i pulled it off, i'd never be able to appreciate it because i know it wouldn't be as good as the work of a skilled embroider.

Yes!.. the laurel button M41001, why would this odd war button detail be apparent on a late 40s repro unless it was a repro of an existing 'leftover button' period example.. albeit rare, it wasn't a mistake on the repro i had an old used M41001 laurel button example too

Hmm.. i like that theory

Happy Days! I remember doing the same, i was going through a bit of a Futura 2000 phase at the time

You’re right.. There isn’t any real distinctions between these and other repro brands who also do it well, they’re late to the party but if you’re a SC fanboy, we haven’t really seen this from the brand before. This approach to repro is still relatively new in the denim world, there has always been a loose interpretation of period details and cut, unfinished fly, WWII restrictions et al but this focus on recreating date specific anomalies has only been a thing for the last decade or so.. the first time I saw a purposely wonky pocket was the RMC-003, when was that?.. 2013 or summat

You know me better than that MJ I don’t do a single 1945 jacket, I do the entire range.. with possibly a backup kept in a sealed bag.

It’s the recreation of period detailing, done well with minimal interpretation.. y’see, I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with Sugarcane, I love them more than any other denim brand for reasons ive waxed lyrical about.. but they’ve also disappointed me massively over the years.. one such time was when (I think) the 2010 catalogue came out, I couldn’t wait to see where they would take the brand after the 2008 upheaval, only to be confronted with their star jeans, 3, 5 & 10 year worn.. i was heartbroken and I didn’t wear SC for years after.. I continued to nerd out over their back catalogue while buying CFS.. the jeans I always thought Sugarcane should have been.. seeing snippets of past glories in their Junky 46 collab while they continued to disappoint me with their shitty line up.. but these Denim Collectables are the first thing in 20yrs which give me a pre 2007 vibe, if they would have done this in 2015, CSF might never have found their niche.

I don’t know Martin.. yes, self restraint. I don’t need them, I just really want them and usually, when that’s the case I would have bought them at the get-go.. When I first heard about them, I wasn’t posting around the forum and did a bit of an eye roll, especially after their recent 46 offerings with ridiculous loose threads at every opportunity.. I’m not going to buy them, I was just hoping the feelings of want would have dissipated by now.

I ❤️these Denim Collectables.. my disillusionment caused me to pass them up.. but they do seem like the most significant thing to happen in the denimworld for quite sometime.. from my perspective, my benchmarks was always pre-2007 Japanese Levi repros, followed by 46 repros, i flirted with a few SC 50/50s in the midst and now these.. i've passed up on lots of denim over the years while i've been focusing on my own thing and never regretted it for a second.. but every time i see these bumped, i deeply regret not owning them.

Invisible mending is an incredible art form.. it's great for jackets and such because they take threads from elsewhere on the garment to ensure a perfect match but i always wonder with less fabric extensive garments.. sweatshirts and such... where would they take the material from? Re- visible mending, there are folks on this forum with skills i wish i had, you could always put a shout out in the 'repairs thread' but again, to do visible mending well is a labour of love, if you're repairing your own much loved clothing, or the clothing worn by your kids, the time scale doesn't matter but if you're mending for paid work, it doesn't take long, even at minimum wage for the cost of the repair to outweigh the cost of a new sweater.. i know how long it takes me to do repairs badly.. + you have to take both ways shipping into account. Let us know how you get on? .. and anyone else with experience of the above edit- I love the way repaired clothing looks.. my only aversion is the way it can make them feel / drape (not noticeable on heavier garments, jackets and wot-not) and although some of those^ more creative examples look good, they're probably not going to look the same after a few cycles through the washing machine.. especially the stitch heavy varieties.

1 belt /wk proves you're wrong

Maybe not, but you're still making something that folks want to buy and if the demand is there and you enjoy making them.. then why not?