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I vaguely remember the '96 Olympics since I was growing up in the Atlanta area at the time. I do fondly remember my parents some of the Izzy mascot pins, wonder if they still have those somewhere.

I've been wearing my LB40s again the last few days, forgot how nice they are. A lot of the seams have a similar three dimensionality that the Slash have. I just wish they were a little less tapered and the selvedge ID was a little more narrow. I've just been wearing them uncuffed to avoid looking at it. Hoping that Ono gets back to making his own line of jeans again, I really like his stuff.

That does look like the LF44 denim, nice pickup! I still haven't gotten around to washing my SO02 pair yet, been trying to practice some delayed gratification. I'll wash them once it cools off maybe.

Yeah that's a good point too, the jeans would probably look fine if they were on someone with a different frame or sized differently.

Psssh, those are rookie numbers.

I'm all for anti-fit / wide leg jeans but I think these look...just awful. One step removed from JNCOs, just missing the laptop sized pockets.

I haven’t been selling anything on Grailed lately due to the increased processing fees. Not in the EU, but it’s equally as bad here in the US.

Like Maynard is alluding to, the problem I have with the whole thing isn't where the boots are actually made. It's the lack of transparency and outright deceit of their customers. It would be one thing if they didn't actively market and lean on the fact that their products are MiUSA, but for years it's a selling point and what they've always pushed about what makes their product "better". Oakstreet has posted a response and it's a longwinded nothing burger, which to me just further confirms that something is going on: reddit link And just to really drive it home, on 8/6 Oakstreet filed a claim with the USPTO to cancel Viberg's patent of the service boot: USPTO link I'm no lawyer and I know nothing about patent / trademark law, but the timing of the filing really makes you think.

S&S preorder page is up with some additional photos: link

Been wondering the same thing myself.

I might be careless with my money at times, but I'm not that stupid.

Totally agree, just be transparent with where your stuff is sourced.

I remember this popping up, crazy that he embezzled $30 million and received a 70 month sentence. Hell, he might be free already.

So a bit of drama in the fancy shoe community, evidently Oak Street Bootmakers is being investigated by the FTC for false claims of their shoes being made entirely in the USA. Reddit link breaking down more information about the FTC warning. Specifically this Storm Boot is in question. They've recently released it (it's still headlining the front page of their website), but mysteriously all of them are now marked down 50%. To make things more interesting, Brett Viberg took to Instagram and seemed to call them out for their false claims as well say saying a former employee helped them establish the production and develop the last with proprietary Viberg lasts: Reddit link. So it appears that Oakstreet is producing the boots in the Dominican Republic, then importing them to have the sole attached and finally slapping a made in USA label on them. Oakstreet has since added an icon on their website saying the boots are "Made in USA with domestic and international materials from trusted sources". I know that this practice isn't uncommon in the industry by any means. I've always heard of some fishy things regarding Oakstreet, but this seems to firmly substantiate them.

Quick fit pics of the LF44 pair, haven't bothered with cuffing them but probably couldn't hurt.