Double 0 Soul

The LD1000 Vntg in the purple colourway is a thing of absolute beauty I look on them the same way i look at Levi's.. I love Levi's but i would never entertain buying a pair of modern 501s, i prefer to buy a JP repro. Yet i highly covet golden age Levis, it's the same shit with Nike.. these shoes are repros from a golden era when a pair of university students keen on distance running were trying to produce a better running shoe and much like Levi's became a victim of their own success..

A profitable stock market ?

More Waffling.. Deadstock 2012 Vntg Elites Yellowing mid Washed out suede Even the mould spots on the laces are intentional repro.. to mimic the appearance of boxed vintage 1971 - 1980 Golden age of Nike.. Oh Mama! Iconic 70s swoosh shape 2012 - 2013 Vntg Repro

‘Feet up Fridays’ .. revisited Going out to all the old heads who remember it.. especially Rivet Head who invented it

Yep but holey af with a big rip at the knee

Deadstock Nylon war model https://zenmarket.jp/en/mercariproduct.aspx?itemCode=m30331212500

https://zenmarket.jp/auction.aspx?itemCode=q1171997205 One of a 100 pieces

Small e red tab replacement

Pfft! .. you came second, a looser in both regards

1000 posts in the bollocks thread Don't know if i should be proud or ashamed? Congrats to the runners up!

It's all about the fades lads.. while you're sat in your air conditioned office playing Candy Crush and sipping single origin, you ain't fading shit.. but once all the labourious jobs come back with their terrible working conditions your denimz will look fkin dope! .. you'll be dead by 50 but hey, you can't afford medical insurance anyhow so win-win.. 👖💪 🔥

I've just had a quick look on Mercari and deadstock cloth patch Valencia 201s are £400.. DS Valencia 37s are £215

Affordable.. Pfft! Last time i looked (which wasn't that long ago) you could still pick up a NWT Valencia made 201 for not much more than than $500

Lovely! If you could show a photo of the waist being measured with a tape while raw, then again when washed and update the post in a month or so's time with post stretch measurement, i would really appreciate it .. Thx!

Now you're showing your age! edit- you can usually get an extra click out of them so a 7speed xt thumbshifter for instance can be ran with an 8sp cassette

They're 9sp Dura-Ace shifters which can either be friction or indexed.. i use the right shifter (rear mech) indexed and the left shifter, friction just because it needs a bit of extra force to get the chain up into the big ring.. they're pretty much the same thing you have on your road bike just adapted into thumb shifters via Paul's Thumbies .. The bike is from 1996 (9/27speed era) but i didn't want to go rapidfire, I wanted something with a bit of retro charm, alas, old thumbshifters are either 7 or 8speed this^ was a happy medium. I'm not sure i'd recommend them for trad drops though, just due to bar tape issues and positioning.. maybe something like this instead https://freshtripe.co.uk/dia-compe-x-rivendell-silver-bar-end-shifters/

Rode up to Burbage ..and down into Hathersage ..this is where i'm heading ..grow up Double 0 ..out of the corner of my eye, i thought i saw a cluster of morels by the side of th road.. in March? ..sadly not ..Hope ..Castleton ..Dopeness .. i hate riding up Winnats Pass ..so i shouldered the bike and climbed up the hill .. halfway up ..at the top ..over the ridge, looking towards Mam Tor.. one of my neighbours has been living in one of these camper vans for the last 2yrs while renting her house out to some Korean academics, she and her husband spent Christams in Holland and she house sat her daughters flat in London for a few weeks but other than that, it's been van-life.. ..single track ..quadrouple track? ..called for a pint of Heresy and a water bottle refill at the Norfolk Arms ..and passed a field of newborn lambs on my way home ..everyone lived happily ever after

My favourite Sugarcane Leepro.. if only for that pocket shape.

Vintage c1963 Made in USA, RayBan Caribbean LVC Valencia 506xx Vintage 1960s Champion (Running Man) Columbia University 'Department of Classics' Sweatshirt £5 Gildan Tee Freewheelers 47s J.Lofgren Sneakers ...First Attempt Ruined By The Cat

I've done a bit of detective work regarding those Edwin 4007s.. they're a womans bootcut and although there is zero info online, they do use a Talon zipper which is easier to date than the jeans (easier still if it was a pre-1950s jacket zipper) .. the zipper itself seems to have been in production from the mid 70s up to 1983.. It was used extensively on 1980s era Wrangler Big Ben, 1980s Dickies workwear up to and including 1990s Edwin made Lee Riders so i would hazard a guess that they date from the 1980s

I suppose.. the difference (as far as i see it).. American style denim pants were a practical, alternative to traditional dress, whereas a repro is an alternative to the, very limited in availability, vintage denim.. catering to the needs for the vintage Levi, Wrangler, Lee.. enthusiast.. rather than your average worker.

Are we talking 'American style' or repro? I'd say a repro from this era needs to be 501 patterned, selvedge denim, leather patch, red tab, arcs and such..

*Toyo Enterprises was previously called Kosho & Co, a fabric import / export company. During WW2 they were selling souvenirs to American soldiers, kimonos and such via a market stall.. Tailor Toyo was established to make souvenir jackets with a soldiers name embroidered, which they could take back home. In 1965 Toyo Enterprises was established to supply western sized clothing to the US military bases across Japan.. they would make denim jeans upon request. *source Double 0 on DB Toyo became a domestic clothing manufacturer in 1975 after the end of the Vietnam war when all the troops fked off back home.. I'm not sure if they were making repros during this time, i expect not, based on the fact that i haven't found any.. Japan's love of Americana followed.. by the 1980s demand outstripped supply of the Levis left behind by American troops which laid the foundations for enterprising Japanese pickers to visit the US with empty suitcases, demand still outstripped supply so by the mid-80s Sugarcane was producing repros for the domestic market but i would love to know what repro jeans if any were produced in this 75 - 85 (pre MP) era.. In 1978, Hitoshi Tsujimoto was one of these^ pickers.. he took a road trip around the US collecting vintage jeans and sweatshirts which he sold around vintage markets under the name 'Nylon' (which would later become McCoys) opening his first bricks n' mortar vintage store in the mid 80s.. this all helped lay the foundations for the golden era denimboom of the early 90s.. so when we consider the birth of the vintage repro, we need to be looking at the early-mid 80s

Laurel button, no rivets.. looks like a war model