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Good job Aho! That said I too suggest to go tts or you'll screw it up.

Inoue San is offering all the odd sizes possible too, so there's plenty choices for everyone!

^^^^^^ perfection fit up there Flash!

I too reckon that slimmer fits look better with a single cuff, hayashi san style. but you could still give a faux single cuff a try before choosing. it will look a little less bulky than the double cuff.

I've never had a pair and I am not familiar to Nudie. my introduction to raw denim was through Edwin. I understand your point though!

2 Volvos pulling a cat apart on the patch.

ahaha Maynard you're killing me wahahaha!!!!!

class! I love your blog Paul. some of the best denim related readings available on the internet

And welcome aboard jyoni, your ooe pair was epic!

I'm down for a Volvo patch.. Two volvos that pull apart a pair of dungarees!!!

Ahah! Only kidding!

Love the cats patch. We'll save the cats chatter for later on!

^ nice!

We're turning this into a Daddy cool contest!

that 'd be great!

beautiful car Paul! pictures of the amazon kombi won't be half bad too!

sorry guys for the volvo off topic, but I have to do my part now...

here's the car that brought my daughter home from the hospital, my daily driver, circa 270K km atm:

and here's my wife's daily driver, and also the car who gave me the  rwd volvo bug years ago, now bordering 400k km. photo taken on a middle of a 2400 km roundtrip to northern Germany, last november:

just to keep a hint of "intopicness", jeans are TCB 60's.

Paul please join the contest and we can plan some side vintage volvo action!!!

jeez man do you have a volvo p1800? some serious car!

I have a two 240's, and my Swedish grail would be a white amazon kombi, sometime in the future I will get one in Sweden and drive back home..

Maynard, I've just kopped a bunch of jap selvedge nappies myself on rakuten. they were mad expensive but now I am looking forward to some epic sick poop fadez ahah! won't wash 'hem for at least 1yr, of course.

here's my little masterpiece first WAYT

dad was wearing a full TCB tux (not visible though in the pix), I say this just to pretend we're still in topic ahaha

You'll have much fun then! I have a three weeks old daughter myself at the moment. Still no vomit on my denim! Sleep as much as you can!

hi there I have no direct experience with the Ed55 but all other ED models (as well as the Nashvilles) I've tried are vanity sized. my Edwins are all w34 and they all more or less have a 18 inch waist.

new type III jacket by TCB

http://happyjeans.jp/tcb/2014/05/15/6046

this is probably made out of the same fabric used for the 60's jeans. Another top choice for the contest winner ahah!

FWIW here's my specs, size 36/inseam lenght 32 inches post soak

Thanks Aho and Eddie, that's a fantastic prize and a super deal too!

^ hoggy inseam lenght shouldn't be a problem.

here's an except from the OP message

-50’s cut

-Available in sizes 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 40 (let me know if you need another size)

-Length of your choice (over 84 cm post wash available)

well, it might be useful, and for sure it would be interesting to see, but generally speakingTCB it's dead on TTS after soak. 

so all you need is measure your waist with a tape and size accordingly.

fair play for removing the arcs, I too find they are horrible!

so... will someone PLEASE tell us more about the prize?

cmon Aho!

My only concern / reason I'm on the fence is the cut, the hem is a little on the bigger side of things for my liking.

But maybe I can embrace it! Who knows.

I know what you mean, it was the same for me here. It looks like looser hem widths are somewhat of an acquired taste, like all the best things in a man's life (cigars, turfey whisky's, dark chocolate, marmite! etc etc)!

once you get used they're great, though the wide legth doens't work with every pair of shoe. so you might need to buy the TCB's and then update your boot game as well!