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As an aside.. we booked a place in Santorini this summer, it looks incredible.. there is only something like 1500 people who live on the island, a lot left after the last volcanic eruption.. the place was in Megalochori, the old historic quarter with a view of a church and a belltower.. but as i started to do some research into restaurants and such.. i discovered that during the summer season, an average of 7000 (between 3000 and 10000) instagram cruiseship daytripping wankers flood the island on a daily basis, so you're sharing the narrow streets with these hideous people.. but they have no interest in the culture or exploring the island.. they're just narcissists who're only there to take a selfie of themselves in front of the Santorini skyline .. they leave at 7.30pm as the cruise ships depart.. Point the camera one way and it's an Instagram worthy view.. you've got your best hat on, you're stood in front of whitewashed buildings, blue minarets, sea in the background.. turn the camera the other way and there are 7000 other people jostling for the same photograph.. there are videos of locals pleading with people not to visit their island in July or August.. i couldn't bear to be part of this nonsense so we cancelled it. I see this to a lesser extent in the Peak District, the Instagram & Tik Tok wankers don't want to enjoy a hike through the Peaks, they just want to photograph themselves in front of the beauty spots so at the weekend you will find 100s of cars parked badly on the verges around Mam Tor.. blocking the narrow streets, blocking access for the farm workers to their fields.. they don't give a fuck as long as they get their fake reality photo.. show us the reality you c**ts! the fucking awful reality which you have created.

I've never posted on 4Chan but it's death has me deeply nostalgic for old internet culture.. those halcyon days before absolutely fucking everything was monotised to the nth degree and google still worked.. as an adult, i've never really watched TV but i have been a.. let's say, casual observer of the internet. I mean, the internet still sucked back then but at least it's suckiness had foundations in reality, it's personalities were real people rather than realities created to generate likes.. heck, i've spent the last week researching what happened to characters like Boxxy and that crazy fuck Shmorky where did these people go? I've been tracking down the birth of meme culture and crimes solved by internet communities.. i suppose for our younger viewers, the internet will have always been part of their lives.. but for my generation.. ZX Spectrum & Sega Megadrive aside.. I'm lucky enough to have spent the first half of my life outdoors without any technology so i was never a bored teenager with the internet at my fingertips.. my only reason for getting the internet in my mid-20s was so i could buy stuff.. Don't worry, the irony isn't lost.. Places like sufu are like internet gold dust nowadays.. a relic which remains largely unchanged (unlike 4Chan, it hasn't taken a crazy swing to the right, not yet anyway) not many places like this left.. So, the stage is set for Double 0s question of the week "The Internet" has it always been part of your life? what were your first memories or experiences.. did you post on Myspace or any other fora before sufu? if yes.. what kinda shit did you post, have you been part of any other groups or communities? any folks who entered their teenage years without the internet and left their teenage years as part of the internet..

Yep for sure! .. i did a little WH denim jacket flick book, everyone can look at that progression and say 'that's the perfect stage for me' and rarely is that stage within 6mths of them going in the bin I've always been a '1 pair of jeans at a time' guy, i've never rotated even between summer and winter, i start a pair and wear that pair till they fall to pieces which was usually within 12-18mths.. bin them and then start a new pair.. it's only this last year or so of changing track that i wish i still had piles of nicely worn denim instead of taking every pair through to the bitter end.

Dryers are not at all popular here in the UK, it's almost tradition to line dry!.. we've never owned one, i don't actually know anyone who does own one.. maybe folks in large appartments with no outside space. I've always line dried (in the winter when it never stops raining, we have 2x Sheila Maid's which we hoist up to the ceiling) I always wash outside out, simply because working with fine particles of wood dust, the dust / dirt sits within the outside surface of the jeans so when i turn them inside out.. you end up with a whiteish, slimey substance, something akin to mixing flour and water from where the wash has lifted the wood dust away from the surface of the denim but the rinse cycle can't wash it away becasue it's trapped within the cavity of the inside out leg.. after a wash.. they would need a second rinse outside out, so i just started washing outside out.

I never really noticed much difference between the jeans which i worn at home and the jeans which i worn at work.. In fact, I bought 2x pairs of CSF-46s, wore one pair for work and the other for home.. if you check the CSF thread, you'd be hard pressed to see which was which, the only giveaway being small spots of paint, surprisingly maybe... the pair i wore for home turned to rags long before the pair i wore for work For 15yrs i would get up in the morning, pull on a pair of fancy Japanese jeans, drive to work, change into a different pair of equally fancy jeans, work in them for 10-12 hrs/day, change back into 'home' jeans and drive home, my evenings/weekends were either spent out in the woods, hiking, bike riding, wild camping and such.. always wearing fancy jeans, in all conditions, snow, horizontal rain.. no jeans have ever lasted me longer than 18mths, most were fked after a year. When i first started taking this approach (i previously wore fancy jeans at home till they were semi-fked, then wore them to work) The UK had a really strong currency.. we were getting almost 2 dollars to the pound, a Euro was less than 70p, Japanese consumption tax was 5% and more importantly, the proxy services would declare a low value so a pair of fancy Japanese jeans was a cheap commodity here in the UK.. Unlike today, the value of our currency is fked and fancy jeans are very expensive. I'm not saying i didn't enjoy watching my jeans wear and evolve but once i'd done it for 15yrs.. i wasn't really gaining anything from continually repeating the experience of just burning through jeans every 12mths (sometimes, i would buy them, wash them to get shrinkage out, wash again at the 6mth mark, wash again at 12mths and that was it.. they were fked) .. I started cycling to work.. that alone destroyed a pair of CSF within a few months so i stopped cycling in jeans and i stopped wearing fancy jeans to work.. i'm currently wearing a pair of £35 vintage Carharrtt carpenters for work, which albeit vintage have already lasted 4 times longer than my £300 RMC.. I've been commuting on my bike in the same pair of trackpants for 4yrs.. the CSF lasted literally months before the arse fell through. I can't really say 'i'm saving money' because i'll only blow it on some other crap but whether i'm spending that money on.. bike bits, music, food or whatevs, i'm enjoying those things a lot more than just destroying pair after pair of expensive denimz.

River Junction.. That's it! .. Iowa not Idaho

What was that place called maynard? .. i think it was in Idaho, they used to sell old timey / old american west type stuff, period dungarees, lanterns and such.. i'm going back 10yrs or more since they were last mentioned around the forums.. they used to sell buttons, rivetts and cinch buckles but the shipping was always crazy.. like $60 to ship a $10 cinch from US to UK.

My jeans have just taken this leg of lamb out of the oven 😋

We know it's you!

I'm the same Carl.. the first 10mins of a tennis match is spent picking up the worms which have wandered onto the court and putting them back amongst the trees.. Before i left work on Friday, i washed my hands in the sink, I turned the tap on but there was a baby woodlice which had fallen into the sink getting washed down the plughole.. like a coiled spring, i err.. sprung into action and covered the plughole with my hand before he got washed away.. alas, i was a second too late.. when i looked under my hand he or maybe she? .. (you know how these woodlice are with their pronouns) was hanging onto the metal thingy which catches the debris.. "hold on little woodlice" i ran back into the workshop and got some tweezers and picked him out, i put him on a piece of kitchen roll to absorp the water.. his little anteni were still moving around so i thought he'd be ok after he got over the shock. Then when you get home and put the news on.. 300 dead today in this war, 200 dead in that war and you think "what the fk, why do i even bother" .. Sadly, when i got to work yesterday morning, the little woodlice had died.. he was all curled up so it was possibly too late to defibrillate him with the 9V battery from the smoke alarm and a couple of wires. I thought giving him a decent burrial was going a bit too far so i just chucked him in the bin..

70s era reverse weave are fetching insane money at the moment so in 20yrs.. I’m sure he’ll want it back

1950s Champion 'Running Man' College 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