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Mine don’t have an estimated delivery date yet, USPS doesn’t usually until it’s in their network. Thinking they’ll land mid next week.

Throwing my hat into the ring. The Red Tab Risorgimento PIZZA Pax Romana Rome Wasn’t Faded in a Day

Yup, what @ATWM said is correct!

Happy New Year y'all, it's finally cold! FW Sasquatch. Boncoura hoodie. FW '42. RO.

Just got my tracking number.

Looks like we're getting close!

Guess I've been on a bit of a Boncoura kick lately, grabbed this pullover hoodie yesterday. Tried on both the 40 and 42, went with the larger size and shrinking it now. Fabric isn't quite as beefy as the Freewheelers heavy weight fabric, but it's got a bit more texture. And sometimes those are too warm anyways. Apologies for the crappy photos, pretty cloudy today. I'll get a fit pic one day here soon once it's brighter out.

Sold them some time back, never fit quite right honestly.

I visited their shop in Paris last January, it was beautifully merchandised and the staff were very welcoming and helpful. But as y'all mentioned just a bit too rich for my blood.

Not today, but a week ago we welcomed our little girl into the world a whole month early! She and mom are healthy and doing great, we’re just adjusting to the inevitable lack of sleep. Happy holidays and new year to all, here’s to dad fades in 2025!

No experience with them personally but I have seen them before, nice looking shoes. Yet another JP brand that doesn’t make shoes big enough for me.

@yung_flynn nice pick up, I’m curious what the inside of the pocket bags look like? In the photos they’ve always looked more like chambray than denim, I couldn’t figure out if it was the warp or weft visible. I’ve been thinking about selling my HBT pocket bag pair to grab these in a size up.

Counting down the days! Looking forward to wearing these.

@indigoeagle I don't own the standard '51s but I took the same size as all my other FW jeans.

Freewheelers have the best combination of depth and pocket opening width in my experience.

Bummer about the delay but no worries, new expected start date is the day before my wife's due date. Should be a fun contest!

I don't see any way to contribute to the shared map unfortunately. But I like the idea!

Covering a few blunders from the above that I mentioned. Maine Mountain Moccasin: Started off originally as "New England Outerwear Co.", the brand focused on making traditional moccasin constructions boots and shoes. They eventually changed their name to be more clearly defined (I don't think they ever actually made outerwear, so funny choice to name your brand). I think things started off fine until they began offering MTO production without properly defining the expectations to their customers. People were paying 100% up front and then going months without any form of communication from the brand and a lot of people just thought their money was gone. After a few years of tomfoolery the brand eventually folded. No idea if everyone ever got their boots or not, personally I have a pair (they were RTW, never dealt with their MTO shenanigans) and they're really nice. Wish there was a brand around like this to fill the niche. Quoddy / Rancourt doesn't really do it for me, Russell and Yuketen have gone off the deep end with price increases. I promise to eventually go into detail on the Jack/Knife stuff, got a bunch of info from a very trusted source years ago but never did anything with it...but I'm off to work now. I'll track it down and see what I can post.

Maine Mountain Moccasin Company also screwed a bunch of people out of money if I recall correctly. Shame as they were making some really nice shoes. You could kinda lump in Jack/Knife into the conversation, don’t think I ever got into posting the specifics on db. Didn’t screw customers over as much as an internal quarrel that fundamentally changed the direction of the brand. Edit: Lest we forget forget about good 'ole Lawless Denim.

ToJ (Temple of Jawnz)?

Maybe it should be marketed as a penis veranda. 🤔

Yup that's correct!

@Dr_Heech nah I went with the cinchless ‘42 spec with the denim pocket bags.

Also paid the balance, looking forward to this kicking off! Assuming we’ll have a new dedicated thread once the contest starts?

I don't think I've ever actually purchased the same exact model twice, variety is the spice of life after all. But after years and years of buying too many jeans I feel like I've found the sweet spot. New releases don't tempt me as much, unless it's a new pair of FW. Every now and then I'll get distracted with something else but I almost always end up back in a pair of 601xx's.