Double 0 Soul

One of my customers makes product in the UK for the European market, product in Brazil for the SA market, Vietman for the SEA market and TX for the US market.. but all the chemicals needed to produce these products comes from China.. so the US arm of the business is now going to be mothballed with the loss of 100s of jobs because the raw materials from China will now cost more than the finished product. Tragic really.. You need to get some good old poison chemical factories opened up.. pronto like!

I bought these deadstock Russell 3/4 sleeve single stitch baseball shirts around 6 or 7yrs ago.. paid international shipping and everything, they're lovely things but they were still unwashed and shrank a little more than i expected on their first 15min cold wash, which was only because they’d been shop soiled for 40yrs ..the offspring did work experience down at Kelham Island making bespoke furniture (i say making, he was mainly sanding down and waxing) .. it was either that or he had the offer to work at Saul Hay for a week via a friend of mine but it would have meant getting the train over to Manchester each day. He chose the furniture making and said "dad, do you have a few old tee,s i can use for work experience" I gave him these^ vintage b-ball shirts, they fitted him perfectly, i thought he was going to keep/wear them but by the end of the week they all looked like this Huf! Chip off the old block, I suppose..

I can't imagine snow having any effect on contrast.. i'd give heat and humidity the benefit of the doubt, you will sweat more in this type of environment, the sweat will dry overnight resulting in more salt content within the denim fibres resulting in more abrasion.. or i assume that's the theory?

I'm glad they worked out.. the view from the rear looks very Levi-esque

Looks like you’ve chosen the right size for the fit you were trying to achieve.. are you happy with them?

Yep, I’m with JW on this one, it’s the dust and grime held within the fibres of the denim which acts as an abrasive as you move around.. if that dust is coal dust or sulphur dust for instance then you need to wash more often but if that dust be inert, wood dust or fine particles of sand then you can go for long periods without washing away the cause of the abrasion. It’s a bit like your car mats, you can hoover the shit out of them so they look clean but bash them with a stick (like your granny did with the rug on the washing line before the invention of the vacuum cleaner) and dust still plooms out.. because the fibres are holding it in.

My mrs wears blocks of bold colours, bright red, tangerine, turquoise, lime green ect because she's got more of an olive complexion, folks with a darker skin tone look great in yellow.. i stick to blues, greys, black and maybe maroon or purple if i'm feeling a little adventurous..

..and a similar effect at UCLA ..still doesn't detract from the fact that i can't wear blocks of yellow

Meh.. i spent a good decade collecting 'sneakers i don't wear at all'

So your foot sits closer to the top line or the bottom line?.. ie, is your sole partially encased in the foam or does it sit on top of all that foam?

Wtaf.. Martin? I had to read that three times to figure out what (if anything) it had to do with a tennis racket and/or floral shorts

I don't even know what that is.. i dread to think!?

My god.. they look incredible!.. so many questions At what point does the sole of your foot sit? .. Is there a concealed air cussion in the heel too or is it just foam.. what does the sole look like?

What a glorious day! ..made some breakfast, ..rode up to the tennis courts ..met the offspring there ..all the tennis pro's wear 90s era floral Stussy shorts and battered old Chucks ..kid zooms off back home, racket on back.. headphones on

Let's see them?

Those Brooks are a nice 70s repro runner but yellow is a hard colour for me to wear.. even shoes, if i wore a yellow t-shirt, it would give me a washed-out, pastey northern european smackhead kinda vibe.. i just don't have the complexion to pull it off .. i would buy the blu/whi colourway, they're a beauty!

16x collage of ‘white’ Gildan Tees, in their Ultra Cotton.. I’ve probably got the same amount in gray, black and navy

It's why i never wear flip-flops.. I just can't forgive the Romans

I've bought a couple of bits since buying those SC-47s last year.. I haven't bought anything new for so many years.. i'm getting a bit threadbare.. When i'm at work, i'll wear a sweatshirt for a month or so, changing the baselayers / thermals when they get stinky, i put all my work clothes in a bag and save them till it's packed full then take it home for a wash.. i don't wash my work clothes with the families clothing because it gets covered it bits of sawdust.. ..i do this twice/yr.. alas, in the summer i took a bag of winter work clothes home, sweatshirts and stuff.. some McCoys, some vintage Levi's sweats, when it was all dry, Sarah took it off the line and bagged it up so i could take it back to work.. she left it next to the kitchen bin.. but it disappeared, i've searched at home, at work and in the boot of the car.. i think one of us has emptied the kitchen bin and chucked the bag of clothing away with the household rubbish, i can't think of any other explanation as to where my bag of tatty work clothing has gone?.. so before the cold weather arrives, i need to relegate some sweatshirts and maybe a denim jacket to work duties so i've been sorting out what i actually want to keep and put back into my daily rotation. The vintage Nike is stuff i've owned for the last 20+ yrs, i pulled some old collectables out of the wardrobe when i pulled out the collection of SC-47s to photograph.

Different times..

1960s Champion 'Running Man' Columbia University 'Department of Classics'

Sugarcane Day.. feat M11026

S&M Bikes Sugarcane M11026 War Model Vintage Champion Gildan SC-47s Chucks

I like to watch old footage of the 1981 'Cascade Run-Off' on YT to see all the early adopters of Nike running shoes .. wearing what are now vintage pairs worth £1000s Both Adi and Rudi Dassler were very enthusiastic members of the Nazi party .. they never told us that when we were growing up did they Martin? ..so @ATWM whatever odious direction you think Bill & Phil took the brand, at least they wern't fkin national socialists ..but yes, the older kids around my neighbourhood primarily wore Adidas and Puma in the early 80s I'll leave you with the words of KRS1 from 1988 "How many people got Nike's on? If you got your Nike's on, put your feet up in the air If you don't got Nike's on I think you need to keep your feet down.."

I appreciate that modrn day sportswear giant Nike is a hiddeous thing.. but it wasn't always this way, back in the brands infancy they were just a couple of innovative distance runners. In regards to this^ Waffle era.. this was a guy eating breakfast.. looking at his families much loved waffle iron.. a cherished wedding gift no less which he poured liquid rubber into to create the sole of a running shoe.. It sounds like something i would do .. and i love this about the brand nearly as much as i love Jacob Davis using rivets to hold a pair of denim pants together.. plus the pull of nostalgia is massive, when i was a young penniless vintage shopper, nylon Nike runners and vintage Levi's where my way of life.. it was cheap and not many other folks wanted them.. hindsight ect..