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I've just been to the barbers, there's usually only one dude cutting hair, another guy came in while i was getting my hair cut.. they were chatting (i'm no sure what nationality my barber is) i assumed this guy was a friend, waiting for a haircut, then he stepped up to the counter and i noticed he'd put an apron on.. he took the lid off this mini cauldron.. and stirred what looked like black treacle with one of those big lolly sticks you use for waxing.. then this other dude came in and sat down in the barbers chair beside me.. by listening in on their conversation, i discovered it was black castor oil.. dude already had very short cropped afro hair so i was fascinated as to what he was going to do with the treacly gloop.. sadly my hair was finished before they got started.. while getting my shit together i was going to ask what it was for.. then i noticed this dude had pretty significant scarring to the back of his head so i didn't just in case he was sensitive towards it.. now i don't know if his was a hair treatment or a scar treatment? Anyone?

Woop! i've still got one, the black one, had no idea it was worth anything

I avoid fone fadezz with a phone designed for smuggling into prisons.. alas, it can be a little embarrassing ‘getting it out’ in public

I'll let you into a little secret.. most of us carry a small Louis Vuitton clutch bag.. but Shh! don't tell anyone Don't start!

I always said you'd make a good mod.. so it was a reinforcement rather than a gusset

The gusset has been done.. albeit not an exact repro of the above.. bob dale thrifted a pair of single pocket LVC samples with the crotch gusset.. also, remember those SE x SC with the bright yellow pocket bags from 2009 (ish) era?.. i seem to remember, they had a small crotch gusset but i can't seem to remember the SC number? .. someone will chime in edit- or was it a crotch reinforcement?.. i can't remember

He’s waiting to see how much my o/w stretch back out in the waist

When my kid was a toddler he would pull all the books off the bookshelf so i boxed everything up which i didn't want to get trashed and shoved them in my parents attic, i still don't have the space for it all so there it's stayed.. I'm pretty sure 2003 was the first ever catalogue SC produced to showcase the release of their new range with the SC product codes Enjoy, you'll not find this elsewhere on the webz.. The 2003 catalogue wouldn't fit in the scanner due to thickness so i've had to bulldog clip it open and photograph it. Hawaii Okinawa Y'all owe me a pint for this.. it took me fkin ages with my cranky old scanner.. 2006 Catalogue There was a period (post 2007) when existing stock of SC-47s were being sold with the arcs ripped out by retailers.. this was followed by a period where they were being manufactured without arcs but they still had the red tab.. then the tabs were being cut by retailers.. then SC started making them without tabs or arcs, as we see today.. There must have been constant lawsuit murmurings within the denim industry .. the old Surgarcane MP jeans had very Levi's-esque arcs.. albeit they were still broken (Kiya has commented in the past, on another forum that he thinks the breaking of the arcs was an attempt by SC to distance themselves from Levi's arcs) this is probably the best explanation i've heard as to why.. but if so, they were worried about repercussions as far back as the 1980s.. As we know, SC distanced themselves entirely from Levi / Wrangler / Lee for the 1998 series of jeans (this could be down to concerns over legal action) .. then they took the bold move to resurrect arcs and tabs in 2003.. this must have ruffled a few feathers at Levi's because by 2006 the 1947s 1955s and 1966 repros had their arcs omitted from the catalogue even though they were still being made and sold with arcs. If you look closely at the thumbnail, they've tried and failed to cover them with the guarantee ticket.. this catalogue would have been printed 18mths before the 2007 lawsuit You're Welcome

I'm in a reflective mood today.. In the early to mid 90s i was living in a shithole of a bedsit and barely affording my £28/wk rent.. when it came to buying clothes, my budget wouldn't stretch to new so i just bought vintage.. In the days before the internet, i had no clue as to what i was buying other than the fact they were old Levi's and a quarter of the price of the 501s you could buy on the high street.. A couple of years passed and i started to earn a bit more £££s.. i bought a pair of 555 LVC-47s.. in retrospect, this was probably the first time it occured to me that the vintage Levi's i'd been buying previously could be from different eras (ikr? .. you internet kids don't know you're born) around 2003 i bought another pair of LVC and wanted to get them hemmed.. back then I didn't know what a Union Special was, all i knew was i wanted the hem to be the same as the existing hem.. ie- 'not single stitch' .. i took them to a laundrette who did alterations but they said they couldn't do it.. i would have to find someone with a machine that could chainstitch.. i went down to Ted Williams.. a proper old boys tailor on London Rd who said he could chainstitch but it wouldn't look exactly the same because the hem was done with a chainstitching machine rather than a sewing machine with a chainstitch setting.. plus he didn't think his needles would be strong enough to penetrate the layers of denim.. more confused than ever, i found myself down a gennel and up a rickety fire escape to Terrace Tailors on a Sheffield backstreet.. the room had a massive cross on the wall with candles either side and a polaroid of the tailor himself kissing the hand of Pope John Paul II ..? I explained what i wanted and tape measure around his neck. he took me into another room with a rail full of clothing.. top rail was garments waiting to be altered, bottom rail was altered.. (this is the single most significant part of my entire journey through the denimsphere) he pulled out a pair of SC-47s and showed me the hem.. it blew my tiny mind.. i didn't even know Japanese repros existed.. i almost had to go light one of the candles He said they were from a small menswear shop in Sheff called Brother 2 Brother.. he would hem them (a little longer to allow for shrinkage?) using his sewing machine which could chainstitch.. I knew where B2B was, i'd just never been in, they stocked the likes of Maharishi, D&G, Margaret Howell, Dries Van Noten and such.. (high end streetwear through to mid-range fashion labels) this was well before the 2008 heritage boom so 'menswear' didn't yet equate to costly workwear, shops following the JP retail model didn't exist back then.. Nigel Cabourn was still designing highstreet tat for Debenhams rather than pricey Everest-wear. The guys who worked at B2B were always immaculately dressed (in their shiny shoes) i just wasn't (in my tatty randomly sized vtg Levi's, or skateboard jeans from a previous lifetime . i never went in because my pockets were never deep enough to buy anything, the labels were not my steeze and i felt intimidated by the smartly dressed staff, all of whom were a good 10yrs older than me.. but i was desperate to go nerd out over the Sugarcanes.. Niro (the UK distributor of SC) was established as a clothing store in 1986 but i'm not sure exactly when they became the Sugarcane distributor so maybe these SCs came from Niro or maybe they were bought retail by the B2B buyer on a trip to Japan?.. either of these explanations could account for the eye watering price tags.. my questions were many and looking back.. i think they knew as little about these jeans as i did.. they gave me a 2003 Sugarcane Catalogue (to shut me up) which i've kept.. I think this was the first catalogue Sugarcane ever produced, i've never seen anything predating it. it's on the cusp of the SC product codes after they moved on from M .. it's more substantial, more of a yearbook than the magazine type catalogues which would come thereafter.. in the months following i bought a marked down pair of SC-47s from B2B, returned by a customer because they were too small after washing... the sufu sizedown 3 craze was yet to happen A couple of years later, B2B moved premises to a larger retail space underneath the recently opened West One development (across the road from The Designers Republic) a friend of mine did the electrical work for the shopfit.. he got me the 2006 Sugarcane catalogue, it was in here that i first spotted the LoneWolf Mechanic boots.. the 2010 catalogue which i've posted here previously (MF thread.. years ago) came from Vari. I couldn't afford B2B asking price for Sugarcanes so i found myself on the internet.. Hirofumi Udono at Vari was great to deal with, he spoke perfect English and was willing to ship internationally. He lined me up with Hawaii's, Lonewolf boots, Whitesville & Cushman sweats..ect.. i was wearing SC-47s around the time my kid was born in 2009.. (another reason why I’m so attached to them) i didn't do WAYWT back then.. i didn't have the balls but seen here (blurry candid shot) loading the car up with Woolrich Woolen Mills, chambray Upland shirt from the Daiki Suzuki era I found myself here at sufu around 2006/7.. anyway.. enough of all this reminiscing.. Maynard spotted these while searching for his recently acquired SC-66 and gave me a hola.. ..knowing my pathetic inability to resist.. i didn't .. so In a nostalgic denim haze, i've dug out the rest of my SC-47 collection. ..first 4 pairs are raw denim, last pair are current wearers but previously o/w, check out he different hues ..from left, 1991-1997.. 2003-2007 I took this shot of he o/w pair back in 2013 before chucking them on the pile ..i've just got them back from a hem job at soas so i've recreated it A bit more graff, a few extra MMs on the waistline and the JMC sweat is a little more faded 2003 & 2006 Catalogues can be seen here

They're probably just ready for a wash @aho

I will! ..from someone who lived in / was fully accustomed to fancy workboots.. they feel a bit weird and heavy, although.. i do like the height elevation, i'll be taller than the offspring again.. Oh.. one of the other reasons i sold off the boots collection, when my old LoneWolf Mechanics needed a resole, i couldn't find anyone in the UK who could do stitch-through, i bought them back in the days when the exchange rate was almost $2 to the pound but by the time they needed a resole, our ecconomy was fked and shipping them off to the US or JP for a resole would have cost more than buying a new pair so i had a collection of boots which could be rebuilt and noone capable of doing the job domestically.

They are arn't they.. Same reason i sold off the fancy boots collection (i've just kept my favourite pair for weddings or funerals) they just don't lend themselves to current lifestyle.. i'm getting up in the morning and cycling to work, i'm not going to do that in workboots .. i could wear them in the workshop but they'd be fked in a couple of months like what happened to my Lofgren engineers (fancy 'workboots' are better suited to office workers or Instagramers playing dress-up imo, i can't afford to destroy £1500 handmade boots every few months) if i am out after work / weekends, i'll usually be playing tennis, hiking in the Peaks or MTB.. again, not really occasions for workboots. This is the first time i've even checked out this thread in years, it used to be one of my favourite hangouts when it was all nicely worn American / Japanese workboots or fancy English shoes.. but it seemed like every time i checked in, i would only see new boots (not better with age) or worst still Quoddys, Paraboots or Aldens worn with white socks.. or perish the thought.. no socks at all.. so i stopped wearing boots and stopped checking out the thread. I'll wear them today, for old times sake, i've got to walk down to the hardwear shop inabit to buy a new brush

Hey @coleslawyum do you still have your ox blood Railman's? Here are mine albeit, not worn for nearly a decade

15yrs ago.. i bought a bunch of JMC sweatshirts 10yrs ago the gray one, still looked like this ..and today, i've never worn it for work ..bit of bleach.. bit of bitumen ..even though it's battered, and by far the most worn of the bunch, i always choose it from the wardrobe.. i can't help it.. it just feels so comforting i think that'll only change when i buy a new one to replace it.. alas, with McCoy's prices

Big Trouble in Little China, mini Typ3 to fit 1/6th scale Jack Burton figure.. Yours for £85

If you check the feedback of the Yahoo! seller above^.. it's appalling by honorable Japanese standards. Numerous 'very bad seller' reviews in regards to Muramasa jeans and lots of those Mickey x Rolexes which are 'coincidentally' sold at the Rakuten store.. also accusations of low listing prices / high buyouts and phoney bidding. It all seems dodge.. of the numerous different brands mentioned, most of them lead back to the same guy who seems to be generating hype with low listing prices and shill bidding... if one of his brands gets a bad rep, he'll just slap a different patch on there. #denimgrifter

One of the neighbours has gone a bit overboard..

Just around the house i hope

Only car i've owned which could be considered 'the latter day equivalent' would be my old 1954 Series 1 Landy, alas, I can't find a photo (i can sense @Dr_Heech disappointment from here) but even that was 8" narrower than the current Mini Seen here poking into shot in front of my old V-Dub I used to sub-let a council garage under a block of flats for £5/mth so i would garage the bug over the winter and use the Landy for chucking MTBs / BMXs and friends in the back, the bikes would be covered in mud but i could just hose it down.. come the spring, i would swap the Landy for the Bug and hit the festivals... then i became a responsible adult and bought a house I sold the Series 1 for £1200, it'd be worth £30k nowadays.. much like the Volvo, i bought them used, they only traveled a few 100 miles/yr and i sold them used so their carbon footprint was negligible.

You can narrow it down.. they didn't exist before (i think) 2003/4 and the arcs would have gone by 2008 plus Japanese consumption tax was at 5% between 1997 and 2014.. i've got a 2003 and a 2006 SC catalogue somewhere, i'll dig them out and see if they're in the catalogue.

Thread bumpin with a view over the neighbourhood..

Nope, you only think you did ie- folks around the forum.. so

^^ Even though 'NOT' is in caps.. it has everything to do with consumer choice.. Nobody has a gun at your head forcing you to buy a massive truck, if they did you would have one too.. you make a choice as a consumer and you chose to buy a motorbike, Cold Sums chose a 90s wagon, Broark chose a massive truck. If you had no choice, all the WAYWT pics would be Forever 21 this n that.. It's the bottom line which matters to these companies .. if, as a society you only had the choice between 3 massive trucks.. Large, XL and XXL and 80% of people consistently bought Large, 15% bought XL and 5% bought XXL, the production of the XXL trucks would damage the company bottom line and this is all they care about, the problem is people don't want Large, either through fear or macho projection.. i agree, their choices are not free from manipulation but they are still choices. For example.. VW Golf has been sold over here for nearly 50yrs because this is what we want to buy, the VW Phaeton was sold between 2004 and 2006, consumers chose not to buy them so VW stopped making them. Folks around here tend to make better, more informed choices in what they buy.. but you can't wait to be 'given' that information, if you're not making informed choices you have nobody to blame but yourself. I'll watch the video later.. see if it changes my mind.. if it does, i look fwd to your fit pics..

No, i think the blame should lie with the British consumer.. I think American cars and British cars are one of the same.. $$$s are made by car manufacturers selling into the foreign market, it's massive comparred to our market share, car makers are not going set up a production line for a downsized model for British roads, it's just bad for business.. British consumers are given a choice from the available range 'do i buy a massive Audi Q7 or do i buy a smaller Audi A1?' (for instance) even though the Q7 is too wide for our roads.. zero fucks are given because, for one they can afford it so why shouldn't they and for two, the width of their vehicle doesn't affect them, only other road users.. which is what i alluded to at the start of all this, until the international market changes.. we're fucked!.. thankfully most choose the A1 but those choosing the Q7 fuck it up for the rest of us.