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"I Don't Really Knoooow" I've been a member of this forum for some time.. this is probably as far 'off subject' as we've ever got

The blue fashion boards are not much different to here .. (well here in 2010) .. just a little bit more racism and a lot more Naked & Famous There's an edgyalbert thread.. the guy who shot the Tilden / Roy video .. and quite an enjoyable thread with young folk getting there tattoos removed by laser because they don't want to look like a "sad old boomer or a hysterical middle-aged white woman" ..

Laughed and thought of @chicote while flicking through the fashion boards of 4Chan

^^That's a very impressive list of brands

..additionally, my M-65 parka had a hood (can’t remember if it was detachable or not) with a wire inside the fur trim so you could flatten out the wire with hood down or for the snorkel effect with the hood up, you would bend the wire to create the shape.. As a child of the 80s, a parka to me first and foremost will always mean a snorkel coat but Japanese shops and auction sites refer to a hooded sweatshirt as a parka.. yet the M-65 parka above doesn’t have a hood, so what actually defines a ‘parka’ In Japan?

It’s like Zen of yesteryear.. you input the value.

You’re not wrong, They’re the exact same fakes which @Sympathy-For-The-Denim picked up recently

Thankfully they look great or I’d have to sit in the corner wearing my denim dunce cap. @OutSider first suggested Japan Rabbit some time ago.. I read in their FaQs that we would still be responsible for fees.. although it was a little ambiguous, b_F was kind enough to try them out. Thanks again Tilmann 👍

They fit great.. lets see some details? @indigoeagle has a pair of their chinos ..and i think @Flash has a sweatshirt

I didn't know that.. but It does sound logical for mil-spec, if recruits are all sized between the min and max height parameters for army enlistment, why have size grading on a garment which is designed to fit like a shapeless sack.. the only defining factor would be the arms length.. it makes perfect sense I had a vintage M-65 parka which i bought in Brighton 25yrs ago.. i didn't have it long but they bring back great memories for me.. when it was my birthday we'd been out the night before and got trashed, one of my friends slept on our sofa because we were planning on hiking up Kinder on the morning of my birthday.. being January, it was knee deep in snow.. he's a serious mountaineer type so was dressed appropriately in gore jacket, gore salopettes...ect i was wearing a fishtail parka, jeans and a Stussy beanie.. i was also driving a very fancy Nissan 300ZX when the only other cars on the snow covered roads were Landrovers.. we must have looked like a right pair.. i took a Toblerone .. I ended up swapping the M-65 for a 1/4 of weed, it would always made me smile seeing this guy doing his 'deliveries' incognito like on a twist and go 50cc Piaggio wearing a vintage M-65 Field Parka and full face bike helmet. The lining i bought was actually for my field jacket but it's the same button arrangement, i just wore it to the surplus store and went through a rail full of liners to find something that fitted.

Hmm.. you can just buy any old liner, I got mine from the army surplus store the buttons are on the jacket inner and the holes are in the liner so if it doesn’t fit, you can just unpick the buttons, put the liner on, put the jacket on, chalk the button holes onto the jacket and reposition the buttons.

WW1 Jeans WW2 Jeans WW3 Jeans ?

Wow! Do you know what the current retail price for CSF is Tilmann? I paid.. Hi Neal Thank you for the order. Item 1 S406XXX Miura-46 Size 40 ¥48600 Item 2 S409XXX Miura-46 Size 33 ¥41040 shipping is ¥ 6200. Total to pay ￥95840　JPY Please tell me your PayPal account. It will send an invoice. 49ｓ

..another thing i noticed recently.. i always get stuck in the Post Office behind lines of Chinese students.. they're usually pulling those wheeled shopping baskets, each one of them has 20-30 small parcels to send, i asked the PO staff what was going on? Apparently.. when you buy from eBay, Amazon, Tik Tok ..ect .. the seller is based in Shenzen or something.. yet it says 3-4 days postage.. turns out, family members based in China are loading up their offsprings student flats with ebay tat avoiding VAT, customs and a 2 week shipping delay.. it offsets the cost of their education.

Most of them have closed down MJ.. I'd estimate that 80% of all new businesses in the city are Chinese owned to service the ever growing population of Chinese students.. they've been established by dependents on dependant visas, they can avoid import duty on the goods they sell by manipulating the £135 rule. It's still quite buoyant in the S10 / S11 bubble but that's certainly not representative of the larger city region.

I'm totally out of the loop with the brand so don't quote me on any of this.. i got my first pair before the hype kicked in just by emailing the store (Fortyniners) .. i got my second pair from Yahoo a few months later (they were a pair from the same run) for not very much ¥. 6 months later, CSF started an Insta account.. this was the chosen method for most folks to acquire their jeans but then the hype kicked in, Konaka-san was a one man production line, demand far outstripped supply and the jeans started to pop up on Yahoo for 100,000¥ and above.. CSF bacame a bit defensive of the brand and while trying to limit the reseller market, the jeans became even more difficult to obtain. You're 9yrs too late to advantage of forum members moving on their sizing mistakes but like all hype brands (intentional or otherwise) after the peak usually comes the crash so just keep an eye on the auctions.. i've got no idea how one goes about buying new CSF in 2025

So I don’t have to go to London every time I need to speak to my accountant? Huf! .. now you tell me!!

It was a pawl'ing! Good god.. i can't do any better

They depreciate like cars.. Folks who know their shit buy the £7k bike from ebay.. 2yrs old for £1500. It is ridiculous but I'm a bit torn with it.. yesterday i stopped for a banana and a drink before the slog of Mam Tor.. a group of, post midlife, probably retiree old boys riding £7k+ carbon-fibre road bikes.. turned around in front of me .. all fully lycra'd up in team colours.. the guys at the front looked damn good for their age.. the stragglers looked like f'kin humpty-dumpty.. they got to the base of Mam Tor.. turned around and headed back.. Mam Tor ain't for the faint hearted so i didn't expect any of them to grind up the gradient.. On one hand, why buy a bike built for peak athletes when a £300 ebay special would suffice.. but on the other hand.. why not if riding a fantastic machine gets you out riding with your mates? .. you're only spending the grandkids inheritance after all..

I don't think our pov's are worlds apart 🤝

Isn' this^ what i said in the first place

Not disagreeing with any of that..

Again.. media was just an example.. (i can go back and replace the word media with the word arts if you like? ) My point was .. most companies who pay a decent salary are london-centric, In London you can work for the BBC.. (for example) up here you can earn minimum wage working at (for example) the Sports Direct distribution warehouse, the Amazon distribution warehouse, the e-buyer distribution warehouse or the Next distribution warehouse.. the world is your oyster. It's why SoaS, Clutch.. et'al exist in London.. you open SoaS in the north and it would close down within a month because folks don't have that type of disposible.

Don't listen to him @Broark .. i was out yesterday from 11.30am till 5.15pm in 30° heat wearing Supreme work shorts.. would lycra have been more comfortable? .. Yes, definitely! Do i regret not wearing lycra? Absolutely not

Me neither.. who's that on the front, it looks like Brian Harvey