Double 0 Soul

It’s just how this place rolls @exaptavist .. we’ve had a FWs thread for years and nobody ever contributed, Duke came along with a bit of enthusiasm and everyone bandwagond it.. we’ve had periods when the SC thread was busy.. same with WH.. Field of Dreams theory

How are y'all feeling about the way you currently dress?... back when i was 20, i'd consider myself cutting edge.. i dressed like a cutting edge 20yr old, none of my clothing was easy to obtain or bought without careful consideration (i certainly wasn't shopping at Top Man) by the time i was 30, i dressed like a cutting edge 30yr old.. ie- 1940s Japanese repro sweatshirt, 1940s Japanese repro denim and old timey, handmade 40s era repro boots.. again, nothing one could buy on the highstreet. Coming here 15yrs ago, we were as cool as fuck but i've been stuck in this fucking loop of a rut for what feels like forever... we've all got old and the cool sufu style of days gone by is now just considered dad-wear The answer used to be 'just buy more stuff' which i did, but i was always bought stuff in our same 'repro' style which by now was already becoming pretty washed.. my journey through fashions was always organic and linked to my lifestyle.. when i was a young teenager, i would buy jeans from Bankrupt clothing, the brand was often irrelevant, as long as they fitted and looked dope, followed by (amongst others) >X for fashion / going out rave club wear, >skateboard / BMX jeans, Girl, Droors, Silas ect.. >vintage Levi's.. >LVC and finally JP repros all within a 15yr time span.. then my journey through fashion just stopped. JP repros are everything i ever want in a pair of jeans, they look great and fit my criteria perfectly.. i'm not looking for anything else but my god am i fucking bored! ! ! I looked at waywt probably 3 times last year and zero times this.. some handsome dude in a well worn pair of repros, a nicely fitted sweatshirt and a scuffed up pair of boots would make me go all gooey inside.. now it just makes me sigh.. We can never move on from this.. the brands are feeling it too with their imagined 1940, 41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59 and so on, repros.. they've milked the style for everything it's worth.. i can count on one hand how many threads i currently read and 3 of them have nothing to do with clothing.. so is this it now for me.., i'll still be wearing this same old 'stuck in 2009' shit when i'm 60? You might say just go buy some Techwear, Gucci or Maison Margiela for a change.., but i'm not that shallow that i would just buy into a brand that i have no affiliation with, it has to be part of my lifestyle.. i'm not the Gucci type, i'm just a bored sufuer..

Yep, i certainly wouldn't consider Supreme a skate brand more like the early days of streetwear.. post sportswear era.. same for Stussy, Silas ect.. From our (UK) perspective.. It was cool af for a very brief period.., maybe up to 2yrs after launch.. the hype thing never happened for us because it needed the internet / mobile phones to exist which we didn't have..

Wow! but saying that, i spent insane amounts of money on random shit during covid, just to counter the boredom.

I had a couple of Fuct tees in the early to mid 90s.. the Goodfellas one (not sure what happened to that) and the Subway one with the guy holding a gun and the cowering dude with the big fro.. i wore the latter to such an extent (being a sweaty skateboarder) the underarms were akin to the texture of a wax jacket.. when it came out of the wash, they were so stiff and cardboardy they hurt my pits! He's^^ done well to maintain a living off the brand without selling out (if that was his objection).. but who's wearing Fuct these days? .. it's easy enough to create a cutting edge label for teens and 20somethings when you're a cool af 20 something yourself.. your customer base likes the things you like.. not so easy dressing 20 somethings when you're 50+.. i'd look even more tragic wearing a 90s era Fuct tee than i currently do wearing 'superdenim approved middle-aged dad uniform' Supreme was cool af in the mid-90s before it blew up, it was underground, high quality, MiA.. apart from Slam, i only knew one store who stocked it so if you wanted a box logo hoodie in the 90s you would have to get the train or drive to a different city.. whereas nowadays, anyone with enough cash can have anything they like. The trajectory (or lack of) regarding some brands is crazy, It wasn't that long ago that North Face who would share retail space with Rab, Lowe Alpine and Mountain Equipment.. making the transition from outdoor gear (with forays into mountaineering kit) into streetwear collabs .. but what followed was a swift decline into what can only be described as a standard part of school uniform for the normcore kids.. those parents of yore who would have bought their kid a school jacket from C&A are now buying their kids a North Face jacket!? $$$s aside.. I bet he's glad Fuct didn't become affiliated with Hypebeast culture.. i often wonder what happened to all the hype-kids..? if they were 20 at it's peak in 2005-8, they will be pushing 40 now with kids and families of their own.. i'm sure they're not sat around the breakfast table in faux-fur leopard print supreme cap and purple camo bapehead hoodie.. have they just migrated onto mature hype brands like Rick Owens, Balenciaga and Palm Angels or have they reverted back to the highstreet..? You forget how lame mainstream fashions was in the 90s.. if you look at audience members in old episodes of Jerry Springer or Oprah the clothing and hairstyles were beyond conservative.. or over here, Bullseye is a perfect example of what the normies were wearing back them.. what the polyester fuck! As ubiquitous as the hoodie has been for the last 30yrs.. before the mid-90s, here in the UK.. folks didn't often wear hooded sweatshirts, the older generation still don't.. (i haven't owned one for 15 years) yet under 50, the hoodie can probably be found in 90% of peoples wardrobes.. anywho that's my incoherent musings for today.. I'd better get some work done!

Some nice stuff listed there^ @srudy Particularly like that military popover

Thanks Charlie, That's similar to what i use.. a compact 2x piece 5.5', carp stalker rod, the bottom section extends out of the handle.. i bought it for the boy (as an easy to handle rod) when he was around 5 or 6yrs old but this is the rod i use 90% of the time.. it's perfect for river banks with lots of tree cover, you can fish areas inaccessible with a longer rod. The offspring hasn't been fishing for 5 or so years now.. he caught some fantastic fish but it was as though.. "i've done that now.. what's next" ..like he'd completed a playstation game There is a bridge in Bakewell over the river Wye, just behind the Bakewell Pudding Shop, folks will buy a pudding and they'll give you a couple of slices of stale bread for feeding the ducks.. massive trout congregate under the bridge, folks stand on the bridge and ball up a piece of bread in their hands and chuck it in the river for the trout.. it's like a feeding frenzy.. i could catch some absolute specimens there but the locals would be outraged!! When i caught that^ trout, i was fishing for pike using this roach shad ..i knew it wasn't a pike as soon as i'd hooked it but i had no clue what else it could be.. i didn't think there was anything large enough in there to take that bait.. i was amazed when i landed that trout

It was! .. I'm usually a catch and release kinda guy, i don't mind catching and eating sea fish but where i caught it.. the river runs through an area of historic industry so the river beds will be rich in heavy metals.

I had a couple of hours daylight left after work so i walked down to the river and yoinked out this magnificent trout.. Pretty good for the Don

Nice^.. reminds me of Fuct tees.. but it's wasted on most of us

I'd love to.. i've never seen a proper footy match before but It's sold out! Folks have travelled from allover the world for it. There was a group who'd flown in from Argentina sat outside the cafe earlier ..

It's Sheffield Derby tonight.. Just up the road from here at the worlds oldest recognised football ground.. the worlds oldest football club, Sheffield FC (c1857) take on their old foes.. the worlds second oldest football club, Hallam FC Tickets for the princely sum of £6

I didn't check the sizes but i'd expect a lower rise if they're cycling specific.. they're not repros

Wow! I'm either 1) Right 2) Derek Acorah or 3) They're watching us..

I don't think you've got anything to worry about in that respect.. their other 'sold' listing is a ¥3000 BR tee, it's too random and too low value to be (japanese) shady. The previous seller had immaculate feedback, i can't figure out a reason why the sale has been passed over to a different seller but i'm 100% certain that it has.. there is a strong possibility that both sellers are the same person, with a different user name.. which is why i suggest keeping an eye out for the goodies which could be about to get listed. I never paid much attention either.. it was just that i revisited a pair of green tab Hawaii i'd seen listed and when i checked the (low feedback) seller for a second time it was like early 2000s Toyo heavan! What i thought was the most interesting.. was a random person has access to 80+ units of 25yr old stock, they must have owned a store because there was a lot of duplicates and the sizing was random so it wasn't a personal collection up for sale.

Indeed.. that pair was ¥29k a few weeks ago Keep an eye on the seller.. i know they have 0 feedback but back in November this person.. Sakana-kun ...only had a couple of random sales then within a few weeks they listed a massive inventory of early 2000s era Sugarcane and BR.. all in DS condition.. Hawaii's with green tabs, Oki's with red tabs and a random pair of new without tags, Valencia 201s for £220 Julians pair were listed as part of this inventory, it's the exact same words and photos. Now when i look back through my history, all of those sales links are dead and the seller only has 2x BR jackets left, they've actually been deleted by the seller rather than 'too much time has elapsed' https://jp.mercari.com/item/m77330994310 https://jp.mercari.com/item/m70968341148 They've handed the listing of the 47s over to zero feedback 'Giggi' for some reason?

The quality of the finish^ on your fillet brazing has improved massively since the early frames.

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Hmm.. they look like Crocs to me.. but i'm no expert with this kind of footwear.

They are.. but only 2%

2% elastane so size down for sure! Save £££s on the chainstich hem by simply cutting the fkers off..

Together at last.. he bastard love child of my 3 favourite pursuits in life.. cycling, camping and selvedge denim. Top button is a Nitto bar cap https://shop.circles-jp.com/en/products/ral-jeans

$9 is cheap enough if the value is lowered.. i stopped buying clothes in 2019, i think the last purchase was the Junky-46s, i've still been buying stuffs from Japan but i've tried to keep everything under out £135 limit for border charges. The DS SC-47s, i purchased recently cost £150ish then i was hit with a further £30 in shipping costs and an additional £60+ in border charges, making a reasonably priced pair of jeans very costly.. :(£240) I'd like to buy a handmade (est £1000+ once in a lifetime purchase) bike frame from JP (Mercari or Yahoo JDirect) one day but shipping charges jump significantly when the package is 1m+.. A bike frame measures around 1m from headtube to rear dropouts but add lots of packaging (at my request) and it'll be more like 1.2m, meaning it has to go FedEx at significant cost.. but it will still be worth it / doable when these costs are factored in.. what rules it out entirely is duty and vat.

Thanks @OutSider it looks like a very good proxy service, trustpilot reviews are superb! I've just had a little poke around the site and found.. ..so what's the process for lowering the value? .. is it automated a'la Zen or do you have to request it from the staff? What are the fees?

Send it down here when you've done with it @MJF9 👍