Double 0 Soul

Has anyone kept tabs on this brand..? I haven't but i proxied a pair for someone years ago and i do remember they had quite an impressive line up of denim offereings.. cinch backs, chinos, salt and pepper deck trousers ect.. now they're MiJ and they only offer 3x different pairs or jeans with a pre-distressed option in the same cut.. https://www.dawsondenim.com/collections/jeans/Jeans

I did say that i would help rebuild it, on one condition.. that they hand over the keys to the forum to someone who we could trust not to fuck it up again. They wouldn't .. so it died

How the hell do you manage to mix up the 22501 with the 22501XX? They can't make it any clearer

Oh dear.. that's just tragic I don't know what's better @Maynard Friedman .. the Harry Styles one or this one below? They've only had 4x posts since May? I've just read through their handfull of contributions from the last 6mths.. it sounds like Mike has had some kind of breakdown

Early morning walk down to the Sunday market in the pissing down rain Paramo, Buco, Supreme shorts, Vans

I sometimes search the internet for denim infos and find exactly what I’m looking for in posts on Denimbro which I’ve written

He made a fkin Powerpoint .. that’s why! Ive filled my brain up with bike infos and it’s pushed out a lot of the denim infos

For something I used to live and breathe.. I’ve disappointed myself with my inability to retain infos from 10-15yrs ago.. I blame baby brain, in 15yrs time @Broark .. Slash Overalls will just be a distant hazy memory. Didn’t the guy who owned JK also have some connection to Rising Sun .. or is this some other half remembered memory?

Just for my own piece of mind.. am I anywhere close @Broark ?

Don’t remember that^ Mike Hoddis.. just come to me.

I can’t remember the details @Maynard Friedman .. wasn’t it something like .. Jack Knife was owned by somebody cool (his name escapes me) who made nice jeans and such.. then he handed it over to some grifters who ripped folks off, then to complicate matters further, there was a second imposter Jack Knife company based in the far east copying the brand? I knew this shit when I paid more attention to the denim0sphere, alas..

What i find strange about these folks.. same with Masterson's, they'll jeopardise it all for such a low-level grift.. although i don't condone, i do understand those folks who check out for £100k+ .. because it gets them out of a business that they might not want to be in.. but this bellend above, was doing something he loved (if he didn't love it, why is he still doing it now?) ..and with minimal amounts of internet-shilling, folks were literally queuing up to hand over large sums of cash in exchange for his work, all he had to do was 'the work' and his business would be a success.. but no, throws it all away for a few measly grand.

I know fuck all about this brand but my takeaways here are.. the leather shoulders on that first jacket look terribly cheap and shiny .. they’re repro-ing the 90s a decade after everyone else and the dude is wearing an outdoor jacket and hat indoors? .. is he trying to disguise the weight he’s put on?

Assuming we still have them of course

Tight, distressed, 8% stretch and no cat hair.

I have to use my brain at work which doesn’t work too well after only a few hours sleep.. the body is still pretty good at dealing with tiredness tho..

The kids were doing some 'Escape Room' thing this morning so we had an attic full of teenagers last night.. I was too tired to go to work. Got up and yawned.. then yawned again. Then i Pepsi Challenged some nut butter ..and headed out to the Peaks ..tried to find a route from Padley Gorge through the woods.. ..to Nether Padley ..but it was more of a push and carry over rocks than a rideable trail so i bagged it off and rode up to White Edge ..all the way to the trig point ..nailing it through the Devils Elbow on the way home ..i got barged out of the way by a herd of cows... cows eh? 4hrs later... I stuck the headphones on and walked to Abbeydale road, it's Pakistani mango season.. i nearly hooked up with @MJF9 here once upon a time Tagging is a middle class affair in S11 through the park Feeding the ducks ..along Sharrow Vale Road ..restored garden furniture at Gilberts junk emporium ..kept walking ..past Kenwood Road ..and down to London Road wearing Supreme work shorts, Blue Lug t-shirt and Odd Future Vans. If you were going on Springer in the 90s you'd need a couple of hair pieces "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry" Drooooool! ..and home

I say a friendly hello or good morning to folks i pass in the street but i would never strike up a conversation about jeans.. or anything for that matter My bike and/or car draws a lot of attention from nerds (especially the bike) but if i noticed someone riding the same bike.. i would never initiate a conversation with them .. but if they did with me, i'd happily chat. If i see folks i know in the wild, if they haven't spotted me, i'll do my best to avoid them.. .. my old school friend owns a coffee shop around the corner from my work.. when it opened i called in for a chat having not seen him for more than a decade.. since then i take a longer route around because i can't be arsed to stop and chat

@CSL .. i've just been down to the local opticians to book an eye test and get my prescription lenses put into these Hakusan frames, they were telling me about a company they use called https://www.speccareservices.co.uk/ who can retrofit wired nose cushions to their existing acetate frames, you might be able to find a similar service on your side of the pond.

Here you go

Here’s a good reflection of what folks wear in SA.. This was favela Rocinha Brazil (so non of these folks are tourists) mid-day in the height of the summer. The guy who we was with (Ramirez) said “don’t point your camera at teenagers carrying automatic weapons” We did Sao Paulo, Ipanema, Copacabana, Botofogo, Salvador and Buzios.. the clothing didn’t change much (apart from Salvador with its Afro-brazilian influence) even though it’s hot af! It also pissed it down with hot rain on the regular so cheap, lightweight and fast drying with flip flops for the locals.

Vintage (ish) Hakusan Megane T-Jerry's .. .. i think these were made for a period up to 2014? .. the version i wanted have this shaped hinge rivet ..the rivet was changed to (or from) a horizontal shaped rivet at some point after release.. There are far fewer examples with this^ shape so i'm inclined to think this was the first edition.. the person who i bought them from certainly thinks so and he has lots of At Last / Tenderloin goodies.. that said, there is conflicting infos online. Hakusan are one of the few who actually make their glasses by hand from start to finish at their shop in Shinjuku, they've been doing so since 1883. My pair had recently been returned to Hakusan for a polish and service. The difference between these and factory produced acetate frames is just night and day tiny Hakusan logo cast into the resin nose cushions, see what i mean about the level of craftsmanship ..beautifully made things @CSL .. sizes are below A- 142mm B- 120mm C- 12.5mm Frame Height- 46mm Lens Height- 39mm Lens Width- 49mm D- 140mm At Temples- 157mm E- 140mm

I'm not that familiar with what Brits do abroad.. sorry British people but i'm on holiday.. i'm trying my best to get away from you fuckers! ..but from my experience folks in hot climates don't cover up.. the elderly do but the elderly cover up here as well, for most folks, it's lighweight shorts, sleeveless or regular t-shirt and flip flops.. most young women, it's hotpants over a bikini.. flip-flops, floppy hat and sunglasses..

edit- sorry, i meant hotter in the US

Factor 50 for me always.. but if jeans can stop me getting skin cancer then maybe I need to reconsider.. or maybe get a denim gimp mask because my face has a lot more exposure to UV than my legs.. Lucky you! Charlie, I’m back at work today having taken yesterday off but I’m currently sat outside my kids drama workshop in a boiling hot car while he does a read through. He’s part of the same acting workshop that supplied some of the actors for Netflix drama Adolescent.. alas, with less than 4% of working class folks employed in the arts sector .. it’ll just be him and William the Conqueror’s grandson Danny Dyer.. ‘Sadly’ no family slave trading monies to support his acting career like Benedict Cumberbatch.