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Honestly it won't have an impact on if I wear it or not. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

@Le Clown Bleu they are quite deep and full through the chest so I’d imagine you should be okay. They’re one of the few FW items I feel like I probably could’ve sized down on honestly.

@Le Clown Bleu which overalls are you looking at? I have the lot 560 ones from a few years ago and they are quite a full cut. I’m 6’3” but I’ve got short legs, so not a great comparison.

Thanks @indigoeagle, trying to branch out a bit from wearing jeans all the time and the Grunts trousers caught my eye. Nice cut, very wide leg with a nipped waist. But I wish they made the trousers out of the fabric that they used on the shorts, would've been great for summer. The herringbone fabric is pretty heavy but breathable. The Great Lakes sweatshirt is a Hoosier exclusive, it's printed on an Ultima Thule sweatshirt (first sweat I have from that sub-line). And the Peace Valley is called navy by Freewheelers, but it definitely appears to be indigo dyed. 🤷‍♂️

Yeah it's definitely a statement, I like the graphic and colors though. But I'm a poser anyways, I don't even ride. The Peace Valley shirts are very nice, the front pockets have a double enclosure. Thought about getting the standard chambray version as well. This olive version of the Blystone came up quite small, or it's just a sign I need to drop a few pounds.

Summer haul from Hoosier. Peace Valley s/s shirt. Blystone. Helmet Laws Suck tee. Hoosier special Great Lakes printed sweat. Grunts shorts, olive sateen. Grunts trousers, black herringbone. Bakersfield trousers. Referring to these as my bougie Carhartts.

Yeah it's definitely true that the international market isn't going to be a drop in the bucket compared the JP domestic market. I just know he's tried to throw his weight around a lot with his elevated "reputation" and it's given a lot of people a bad impression of him ever since, myself included.

Yoshiaki really burned some bridges over the years, but I don't the the international community was ever important to him. Seems like he's just gotten too big for his own britches in my opinion. Hell, the guy has a fuckin' semi truck... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH67plETbkm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Nice jacket there, wonder who made it for them.

Just to clarify, I don't have a pair of Slash's XX Grade jeans yet. Still working on that, and if I ever do I'll be sure to share them. I've been wearing my pair of Slash S01XX jeans that I found on Yahoo for the last week, to me they feel very unique even in the limited production one man brand space. There's something about the way he folds the fabric where different parts of the pattern overlap, it gives them a very three dimensional feeling that can't fully be portrayed through pictures. He's mentioned this on his blog in the past and I never understood it until I started wearing my pair. The only makers that I've seen do something similar are Roy and rebuilt. And his patterning is very good, the cut feels great in the short time that I've been wearing them. Pockets are usable, rise is ample, they feel like what I'd imagine a pair of vintage jeans should feel like. I think he also spends a lot of time and effort improving the fabric and materials used to make each pair. If you look at some of his work over the years it's gotten much more refined from when he first started. From his blog it appears that he's been heavily invested in recreating vintage two prong buttons from scratch for the XX Grade line. Literally recreating machinery and button casts so that he can reproduce buttons for the small handful of jeans that he is able to make on his own. That's very dedicated, he's not a brand that can easily push out a few thousand pairs of jeans to justify the r&d costs associated. Does this make them inherently better than other buttons on the market? I don't know, and Slash believes that the only way to understand the difference is to see them in person. Is there an aspect of hype / limited availability to his concept? Absolutely, but I also don't think it's the main appeal. I think with almost any and every one man brand in this type of field it's intrinsic to keeping their product line alive and commercially viable. I'm sure there might some people buying them for this reason alone, he's even blogged about how he doesn't want people to resell his products because of their limited nature (saying that he will ban anyone from purchasing from him again if he's able to track them down via the serial number printed on each pair). I think he's very dedicated to his craft and he's trying to reproduce jeans in the most accurate way possible and he's cultivated a very dedicated fan base along the way. I understand that the limited nature of his products will put some people off and that's totally understandable.

Same here, I used to strike up conversations every now and then with people when I saw them wearing something I recognized, now I reserve that for more uncommon sightings.

Very nice specs 00, thanks for sharing.

I think it's important to wear what's suitable for the climate, but I think it's also worth mentioning how people are acclimated differently as well. Like 00 said, I'm not going to be wearing jeans to the beach, that's just silly. Or if I'm going to be outside for a long stretch doing something active I'll break out the shorts. But I'm also pretty used to wearing jeans in 90F / 32C temps from May / June through September / October. I have a tendency to get swarmed by mosquitos, so wearing jeans in the summer helps a lot with that. By you blokes standards I'd be stuck in shorts for 90% of the year. But I'd also probably be the first to break out a jacket while you lot would still be wearing shorts and tees.

100% with you on that.

@ashgiovanni if they weren't so dang tapered I'd keep 'em!