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Ha! .. James Dean as a toddler

Ah.. ok 🤔.. so pinkline in the year 2000 and V stitch to the top of the waistband, that's unusual.. Peekaboo ID a'la SC-47s but the back pocket stitch resembles the M41001.. Can you see this^ protruding pocket stitch @Dr_Heech ? .. it's used for the Sugarcane M41001 late 40s / early 50s repros .. you don't see it on SC-47s but you do see it on FW-47s albeit protruding less.. off the top of my head, i don't recall seeing it on late 40s - early 50s Levi's but you would know better then i? @redragon does the waistband stitch continue over the fly at 90° like this ? ..or does it stop at the waistband ?

Got up early so i thought i'd do a spot of pike fishing down the canal.. i was even wearing jeans in the "what are your jeans doing thread" .. unheard of right? I'd got a nice piece of aged gruyere.. ..made some scrambled eggs and sourdough for breakfast ..went down to the canal where i spotted an old Reliant Rialto, for the non brits.. these were the cheapest form of motoring for the working man, they only had 3 wheels so they were considered a trike rather than a car so one could drive them on a motorbike license meaning you didn't need to pass a driving test... most were rolled at roundabouts so you don't see them very often. ..fishing with a crayfish lure Vintage Champion / SC47s Narrowboats Pike Pointy Local artist painting with oils ..pretty darn good!

"Don't drink anymore than 3/4s of a bottle" Jeeze.. I'd have to go get my stomach pumped

Speaking of god grifters.. i watched Marjoe yesterday, this is a great docu, it was lost for years.. The story of Marjoe Gortner, born into an evangelical family and preaching prosperity gospel since the age of 4.. obviously trained by his parents, he always knew he was a false prophet (arn't they all) but felt he was offering therapy.. coming to a crossroads in his life after hooking up with the California counter culture.. the film is a little exploitative but it was the 70s Same old story.. even after folks find out he's fake.. most still believe he's the real deal (it's the devil playing tricks on us) like the cult of modern politics.. even when folks are proven to be corrupt.. few will leave, most will stay faithful to the cause.

Oi .. you cheeky cnut!

You're here now.. that's the main thing! It's the transition i find interesting.. at some point we've all decided to start buying very nice pants for some reason?. I'm a little older so my skateboarding years were the mid 90s.. a little film here put out by our local skate store (no sound first 5mins) **It's lovely to see our city center back in the 90s^ .. Aw Sheffield ❤️ Around this period, i was dressed the same as these^ guys in baggy pants and hoody which nowadays is just another generic youth look but in the mid 90s, it was mainly skaters who dressed this way.. Walking through the city there would be a congregation of goths like a sea of black on the city hall steps.. the grunge kids in their misshapen knitwear and converse, the Indy / Leadmill kids, the club kids flyer-ing outside Warp or the normies shopping on the highstreet.. it wasn't difficult to see how folks aligned themselves. **nowadays the city center is a fucking disgrace, all the shops have closed down, the ones that are left open are swarming with security, it's mainly vape shops, phone shops, charity shops and Greggs.. nobody seems to be employed, begging, spice-zombies, god-grifters.. the end is nigh types, "repent your sins!" .. Deliveroo riders carelessly nailing it through pedestrianised areas while folks run for their lives.. half of all folks are not speaking English, there is no integration, piss-heads fighting or puking, waiting for Wetherspoons to open.. folks with clipboards accosting you for money, toothless meth-heads selling stolen dogs.. 1000s of homeless people, sleeping bags and cardboard stuffed into every doorway, the backstreets stink of shit and urine, i used to laugh at the level of deprivation when i would go to Goole or Castleford.. "what the fuck has happened here" but now Sheff is far worse.. even the Cash Converters closed down.. that's how deprived the city is. Sheffield city council are spending millions redeveloping it which seems pointless when nobody has any money to spend.. i'd rather see a response similar to The Return Of The Living Dead where they just fucking nuke it!

Similar thoughts at the end of The Shining?

Yes, he was called Derrick Palfrey, he told me his family name came from Palfreyman (man responsible for palfreys or riding horses / a groom) he lived at Rivelin, he had a wife called Chris, a daughter called Annesley who's a pathologist and a son called Hayden who worked at Richer Sounds.

Remember a few pages back.. i was going on about when i first started my apprenticeship around 1990.. and the patternmakers / master craftsmen would arrive at work wearing a shirt and tie with a waistcoat and a jacket.. their sandwiches in a breifcase, they would take off their jacket, roll up their sleeves and pull on a smock to keep their clothing clean.. they was the last of the gentlemen master pattern makers. I just wore a check flannel and jeans.. much like i do now ..anywho, one of the last surviving master craftsmen of this generation is still alive, i haven't seen him for years because he's been caring for his wife who had dementia, he called in for a coffee on the way to a hospital appointment (i didn't really recognise him at first) i said to him.. next time you're passing, can you drop some old photos in.. which he did yesterday. He's the guy on the far left in the glasses.. this was English Steel in 1954, he was 23yrs old having just left the RAF and he's now 93.. so when i started my apprnticship in 1990 he would have been 59.. i also worked with the young chap in the middle with the dark hair.. he was 19yrs old when this was taken and still an apprentice himself, he died not long after i finished my apprenticeship.

Looking smart and youthfull (before parenthood) in the mid 2000s wearing an Oliver Spencer shirt (and looking at the texture, these are either) SC Okinawa's or Hawaii's

Im blending 2 different conversations here From the year 2000.. Sarah's, Silas & Maria stylised deck jacket, it's grosgrain, alpaca linned (alpaca / acrylic blend) and made in the Eu.. It's even pleated for a 506 x N1 kinda lean.. It was bought down the lanes in Brighton for £280 in the year 2000

I remember it being a scarf doubled over then worn around the neck with the dangly ends threaded through the loop.. so quite a chunky arrangement under the chin.. then a tee for balance.. i suppose??

Joe Bloggs.. is @PrettyBoyTony from the UK?

Ha! brilliant.. The best photo i've seen posted on the forum for ages 👏 I remember seeing the t-shirt and scarf look, it made it over here too, do you remember where it came from, was it worn by any bands you was listening to?.. i was always baffled by it.

Thanks Aliens.. Don't be shy people, we won't will laugh Here you go guys.. "It's On The Socials" it'll be mainstream before you know it https://www.rokit.co.uk/collections/vintage-y2k-clothing?srsltid=AfmBOoqcCZSwIEMs6V9_vyEvoJS6owMBjwm_yzt39zGHcX9AkFYgdjCe https://y2kdream.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqHAzyVsJXhyC_5jbQMrZLooYrvntJI9KHwQGuExpIK4NfIrOb3 According to Vogue.. "The Y2K fashion revival will never die" This is what we'll all be wearing in the coming years.. Maybe i need to reassess my black / blue standpoint?

Yes and No over here.. No.. There definitely has been a strong 80s and 90s revival for the cool kids / vintage shoppers.. which even followed the same cycles.. late 90s revival followed early 90s revival which followed late 80s revival.. i don't remember an early 80s revival, first i remember was young women wearing puffball skirts in the late 2000s ..but Yes.. fashion became a helluva lot more generic after the death of the fashion tribes when you could just go to Primark and buy the look straight off the hanger.. i'll be a goth today, cowboy tomorrow, country gent on Saturday, grunge on Sunday.. or even worse i'll just blend into the background and shop at Gap or A&F.. 🤢 The industrial quarter where i work has been engulfed by international student accommodation for the last decade.. so most students i see are wealthy Beijing kids who're very label focused.. they have absolutely no sense of style whatsoever but heavy branding is key to their look.. Canada Goose jacket, Gucci tee, Balenciaga jog bottoms tucked into Dr Martens or Yeezy slides.. like diehard hypebeasts from 2010. I went to H&M last week to get my kid a white tee for 't-shirt signing day' at school.. and no shit, they had 7 different flavours of white tees in stock, dotted around the store, ranging from £6 to £12.. a few pale blue chambray shirts and some very bland neutral colours.. where was all the vibrant summer clothing? .. it was as dull as fucking dishwater! .. even tech bros look more interesting.. like it was AI generated So what were you all wearing around the millennium? Are you looking forward to any of it coming back?

The second summer of love / hippy revival was at the end of the 80s over here.. like 1988. Feet 3 High and Rising came out in Feb 89.. the hippy revival started the previous summer.. but yes, it rolled over into the 90s, i'm sure i still had beads around my neck when i went to see The Doors film in 91. What are your memories of the early 2000s Paul? .. for me i was in flux between baggy-ass skateboarder jeans, vintage Levi's, slightly smarter Silas jeans or LVC... For the highsteet clones, it was G-Star Raw, Diesel, Twisted Levis, or Evisu For the more fashion focused, it was Vivienne Westwood.

Now the 90s revival is well and truly over and we move into the year 2000, fwiw... according to my DB post in the What's Next? thread . . i first noticed signs of the 80s giving way to the 90s in June 2017, so we've had a good 15yrs of this continuing rehashed nostalgia.. So.. What are you looking forward to from the coming decade?.. I know i'm keen for my vast collection of Von Dutch caps which i bought from Hip in Leeds to become fashionable again I got some spam from End last week regarding their exciting restock of terrible 2000 era sneax.. i'm sure as shit i wasn't wearing these^ in the 2000s!.. the only folks who currently do are either fucked up spice-heads who haven't bought any new shoes for 20yrs because of their battles with addiction, folks fresh outta prison or clueless 'comfort at all cost' dad types. But as the 2000s revival inevitable comes to an end in 8yrs time, and us 2009 era guys have our moment in the sun... how will this play out, will we look cool-retro, strutting our stuff with the teenagers or will we look more, land that time forgot?.. like those middleaged men you would see in 2012 wearing skintight stretch denimz.. maybe our extensive knowledge will redeem us.. "check out my rugged, heritage, denim-steeze i saw on an alarmist YouTube thumbnail" .. Well i was dressing like an urban lumberjack before you were even born.. "corse you were pops!" .. With the death of creativity and the onslaught of AI.. will this nostalgia loop ever end? .. so what's going to come after the 2010 revival.. will it be the 80s again?

Here you go https://zenmarket.jp/en/auction.aspx?itemCode=u1118749452

Yep, can't remember who it was tho .. Erm, for some reason i'm thinking one of the Warehouse offshoots? That's them.. i've seen Two Horse Brand posted before either here or on DB.. might have even been me..

90s Boom! Two Heorse Brand I think these have been posted before.. Great patch tho!

2003 era Hawaii's Green tab, No wash, W35, £150 https://zenmarket.jp/mercariproduct.aspx?itemCode=m93793753732

I've just had a scoot through eBay .. the closest runner i can find would be 70s Pro-Keds

Careful with the bonsai sheers! ..could be the missing link